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Practice effects on dual-task order coordination and its sequential adjustment.

Tilo Strobach^1,2

¹Department of Psychology, Medical School Hamburg, Am Kaiserkai 1, 20457, Hamburg, Germany. tilo.strobach@medicalschool-hamburg.de.

Psychonomic Bulletin & Review

|February 27, 2024

Summary

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Dual-task practice enhances task-order coordination, but not its adjustment. This suggests that coordinating task order and adjusting that coordination involve separate cognitive processes.

Keywords:

Cognitive plasticity Dual tasks Dual-task practice Task order Task-order control

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Area of Science:

Cognitive Psychology
Neuroscience
Human Factors

Background:

Dual-task performance often leads to impairments when tasks overlap in time.
Existing research primarily explains control mechanisms, not task-order coordination in dual-tasking.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate the effects of practice on task-order coordination performance.
To examine the relationship between task-order coordination and cognitive meta-control adjustments.
To determine if practice affects coordination and its adjustment differently.

Main Methods:

A visual-auditory dual-task was used with randomly changing task orders.
Participants underwent four sessions of either dual-task practice or single-task practice (N=24 each).
Task-order coordination and adjustment capabilities were assessed post-practice.

Main Results:

Task-order coordination significantly improved following dual-task practice.
Single-task practice did not yield similar improvements in task-order coordination.
Practice did not substantially affect the adjustment of task-order coordination.

Conclusions:

Task-order coordination improves with specific dual-task practice.
The adjustment of task-order coordination appears independent of practice effects.
These findings support the dissociation between task-order coordination and its sequential adjustment processes.