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Transferability of Dual-Task Coordination Skills after Practice with Changing Component Tasks
- Source :
- Frontiers in Psychology, Vol 8 (2017), Frontiers in Psychology
- Publication Year :
- 2017
- Publisher :
- Frontiers Media S.A., 2017.
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Abstract
- Recent research has demonstrated that dual-task performance with two simultaneously presented tasks can be substantially improved as a result of practice. Among other mechanisms, theories of dual-task practice-relate this improvement to the acquisition of task coordination skills. These skills are assumed (1) to result from dual-task practice, but not from single-task practice, and (2) to be independent from the specific stimulus and response mappings during the practice situation and, therefore, transferable to new dual task situations. The present study is the first that provides an elaborated test of these assumptions in a context with well-controllable practice and transfer situations. To this end, we compared the effects of dual-task and single-task practice with a visual and an auditory sensory-motor component task on the dual-task performance in a subsequent transfer session. Importantly, stimulus and stimulus-response mapping conditions in the two component tasks changed repeatedly during practice sessions, which prevents that automatized stimulus-response associations may be transferred from practice to transfer. Dual-task performance was found to be improved after practice with the dual tasks in contrast to the single-task practice. These findings are consistent with the assumption that coordination skills had been acquired, which can be transferred to other dual-task situations independently on the specific stimulus and response mapping conditions of the practiced component tasks.
- Subjects :
- Injury control
Computer science
Accident prevention
Transferability
lcsh:BF1-990
task coordination skills
Poison control
Stimulus (physiology)
050105 experimental psychology
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Stimulus–response model
Psychology
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
General Psychology
Original Research
dual tasks
05 social sciences
Executive functions
executive functions
practice
lcsh:Psychology
Social psychology
transfer
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Cognitive psychology
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 16641078
- Volume :
- 8
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Frontiers in Psychology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....42b876ef55395b262021c345731a8f16
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00956/full