Secondary-task effects on sequence learning

1996 ◽  
Vol 59 (2) ◽  
pp. 119-133 ◽  
Author(s):  
Herbert Heuer ◽  
Volker Schmidtke
Keyword(s):  
Sequence Learning ◽  
Secondary Task ◽  
Task Effects

Secondary-task effects on classification learning

2007 ◽  
Vol 35 (5) ◽  
pp. 864-874 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karin Foerde ◽  
Russell A. Poldrack ◽  
Barbara J. Knowlton
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Task ◽  
Classification Learning ◽  
Task Effects

Working Memory Constraints on Linear Reasoning with Spatial and Temporal Contents

1997 ◽  
Vol 50 (4) ◽  
pp. 803-820 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andre Vandierendonck ◽  
Gino De Vooght
Keyword(s):  
Working Memory ◽  
Secondary Task ◽  
Spatial Relations ◽  
Central Executive ◽  
Secondary Tasks ◽  
Task Effects ◽  
Content Domain ◽  
Within Subjects ◽  
Spatial Resources ◽  
Memory Constraints

The present article reports two experiments testing the use of working memory components during reasoning with temporal and spatial relations in four-term series problems. In the first experiment four groups of subjects performed reasoning tasks with temporal and with spatial contents either without (control) or with a secondary task (articulatory suppression, visuospatial suppression or central executive suppression). The second experiment tested the secondary task effects in a within-subjects design either on problems with a spatial content or on problems with a temporal content, and within each content domain either under conditions of self-paced or of fixed presentation of the premises. Both experiments found effects of all three secondary tasks on reasoning accuracy. This supports the hypothesis that the subjects construct spatial representations of the premise information with the support of visuo-spatial resources of working memory. The second experiment also showed that during premise intake, only visuo-spatial and central executive secondary tasks had an effect. The implications of the data for the working memory requirements of reasoning and for theories of linear reasoning are discussed.

scholarly journals Retrieval of a well-established skill is resistant to distraction: Evidence from an implicit probabilistic sequence learning task

PLoS ONE ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (12) ◽  
pp. e0243541 ◽  
Author(s):  
Teodóra Vékony ◽  
Lilla Török ◽  
Felipe Pedraza ◽  
Kate Schipper ◽  
Claire Pleche ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Dual Task ◽  
Sequence Learning ◽  
Secondary Task ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Reaction Times ◽  
Learning Task ◽  
Concurrent Task ◽  
Sequence Information ◽  
Task Effect ◽  
Task Conditions

The characteristics of acquiring new sequence information under dual-task situations have been extensively studied. A concurrent task has often been found to affect performance. In real life, however, we mostly perform a secondary task when the primary task is already well acquired. The effect of a secondary task on the ability to retrieve well-established sequence representations remains elusive. The present study investigates whether accessing well-acquired probabilistic sequence knowledge is affected by a concurrent task. Participants acquired non-adjacent regularities in an implicit probabilistic sequence learning task. After a 24-hour offline period, participants were tested on the same probabilistic sequence learning task under dual-task or single-task conditions. Here, we show that although the secondary task significantly prolonged the overall reaction times in the primary (sequence learning) task, access to the previously learned probabilistic representations remained intact. Our results highlight the importance of studying the dual-task effect not only in the learning phase but also during memory access to reveal the robustness of the acquired skill.

scholarly journals Memory under pressure: Secondary-task effects on contextual cueing of visual search

2013 ◽  
Vol 13 (13) ◽  
pp. 6-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Annac ◽  
A. A. Manginelli ◽  
S. Pollmann ◽  
Z. Shi ◽  
H. J. Muller ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Visual Search ◽  
Secondary Task ◽  
Contextual Cueing ◽  
Task Effects

Secondary task effects on serial verbal learning.

1970 ◽  
Vol 85 (3) ◽  
pp. 418-424 ◽  
Author(s):  
Don Trumbo ◽  
Merrill Noble
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Task ◽  
Verbal Learning ◽  
Task Effects
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