Simultaneous performance of tracking and discrimination tasks produces large multitasking costs at baseline¶

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q3 i3 At pre-training, performing the discrimination and tracking tasks simultaneously produced a large mean multitasking cost of 15.58%. → Angela D. Bender 2017

Evidence¶

Angela D. Bender 2017¶

Angela D. Bender, Hannah L. Filmer, Claire K. Naughtin and Paul E. Dux. (2017). Dynamic, continuous multitasking training leads to task-specific improvements but does not transfer across action selection tasks. npj Science of Learning. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41539-017-0015-4

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Mixed-design baseline assessment of the combined sample (39 analyzed participants) showed a dual-task accuracy cost of "mean multitasking cost = 15.58%" with printed effect size ηp² = .846 (printed as η2 P = .846), confirming the adaptive thresholding produced comparable ~80% component-task accuracy.

"At pre-training, simultaneous performance of the shape discrimination task and the visuospatial tracking task resulted in large multitasking costs (main effect of single-task vs. multitask: mean multitasking cost = 15.58%; F(1,37) = 202.77, p ≤ .001, η2 P = .846)"

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