Knowledge generalization and the costs of multitasking

KG Garner, PE Dux - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2023 - nature.com
Humans are able to rapidly perform novel tasks, but show pervasive performance costs
when attempting to do two things at once. Traditionally, empirical and theoretical …

Neural substrates of individual differences in learning generalization via combined brain stimulation and multitasking training

Y Wards, SE Ehrhardt, HL Filmer, JB Mattingley… - Cerebral …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
A pervasive limitation in cognition is reflected by the performance costs we experience when
attempting to undertake two tasks simultaneously. While training can overcome these …

On the relationship between response selection and response inhibition: An individual differences approach

AD Bender, HL Filmer, KG Garner, CK Naughtin… - Attention, Perception, & …, 2016 - Springer
The abilities to select appropriate responses and suppress unwanted actions are key
executive functions that enable flexible and goal-directed behavior. However, to date it has …

Atypical neural plasticity and behavioral effects of trustworthiness learning in borderline personality disorder features

EA Fertuck, SA Fischer, RD Melara - Journal of Personality Disorders, 2023 - Guilford Press
This study distinguishes interpersonal trust learning with a novel trust learning paradigm in
participants high (H-BPD) and low (L-BPD) in BPD features. Neutral faces were paired with …

The effect of multi‐tasking training on performance, situation awareness, and workload in simulated air traffic control

SC Black, AD Bender, SJ Whitney… - Applied cognitive …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Increasingly higher demands are being made on the capacity‐limited cognitive capabilities
of human operators as they strive to maintain situation awareness (ie, understanding “what …

Neural and behavioral correlates of attentional inhibition training and perceptual discrimination training in a visual flanker task

RD Melara, S Singh, DA Hien - Frontiers in human neuroscience, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Two groups of healthy young adults were exposed to 3 weeks of cognitive training in a
modified version of the visual flanker task, one group trained to discriminate the target …

Dynamic, continuous multitasking training leads to task-specific improvements but does not transfer across action selection tasks

AD Bender, HL Filmer, CK Naughtin, PE Dux - npj Science of Learning, 2017 - nature.com
The ability to perform multiple tasks concurrently is an ever-increasing requirement in our
information-rich world. Despite this, multitasking typically compromises performance due to …

Multi-stage cortical plasticity induced by visual contrast learning

J **, P Zhang, WL Jia, N Chen, J Yang… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Perceptual learning, the improved sensitivity via repetitive practice, is a universal
phenomenon in vision and its neural mechanisms remain controversial. A central question is …

Transfer of training benefits requires rules we cannot see (or hear).

KG Garner, CR Lynch, PE Dux - Journal of Experimental …, 2016 - psycnet.apa.org
Although humans show a remarkable ability to make rapid and accurate decisions in novel
situations, it is surprisingly difficult to observe transferable benefits when training decision …

“To Name or Not to Name: That is the Question”: The Role of Response Inhibition in Reading

J Cummine, D Aalto, A Ostevik, K Cheema… - Journal of …, 2018 - Springer
Reading is a complex process that includes the integration of information about letters
(graphemes) and sounds (phonemes). In many circumstances, such as noisy environments …