Enhancing task-demands disrupts learning but enhances transfer gains in short-term task-switching training.

ABSTRACT: Content variability was previously suggested to promote stronger learning effects in cognitive training whereas less variability incurred transfer costs (Sabah et al. Psychological Research, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-018-1006-7 , 2018). Here, we expanded these findings by additionally examining the role of learners' control in short-term task-switching training by comparing voluntary task-switching to a yoked control forced task-switching condition. To this end, four training conditions were compared: (1) forced fixed content, (2) voluntary fixed content, (3) forced varied content, and (3) voluntary varied content. To further enhance task demands, bivalent stimuli were used during training. Participants completed baseline assessment commencing with task-switching and verbal fluency bl

SUBMITTER: Sabah K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8286950 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature