Influences of Postural Control on Cognitive Control in Task Switching

被引:9
作者
Stephan, Denise N. [1 ]
Hensen, Sandra [1 ]
Fintor, Edina [1 ]
Krampe, Ralf [2 ]
Koch, Iring [1 ]
机构
[1] Rhein Westfal TH Aachen, Inst Psychol, Aachen, Germany
[2] Katholieke Univ Leuven, Brain & Cognit Grp, Leuven, Belgium
来源
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY | 2018年 / 9卷
关键词
postural control; cognitive control; task switching; task preparation; congruency effect; DUAL-TASK; SHIELDING FUNCTION; OLDER-ADULTS; INTERFERENCE; ATTENTION; SETS; BALANCE; MULTITASKING; RESOURCES; COST;
D O I
10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01153
中图分类号
B84 [心理学];
学科分类号
04 ; 0402 ;
摘要
The aim of the current study was to investigate the effects of postural control demands on cognitive control processes in concurrent auditory-manual task switching. To this end, two experiments were conducted using an auditory cued task-switching paradigm with different postural control demands (sitting vs. standing). This design allowed us to explore the effect of postural control on switch costs, mixing costs, and the between-task congruency effect. In addition, we varied the cue-based task preparation in Experiment 1 to examine whether preparation processes are independent of additional postural control demands or if the motor control processes required by the postural control demands interfere with task-specific cognitive preparation processes. The results show that we replicated the standard effects in task switching, such as switch costs, mixing costs, and congruency effects in both experiments as well as a preparation-based reduction of these costs in Experiment 1. Importantly, we demonstrated a selective effect of postural control demands in task switching in terms of an increased congruency effect when standing as compared to sitting. This finding suggests that particularly in situations that require keeping two tasks active in parallel, the postural control demands have an influence on the degree to which cognitive control enforces a more serial (shielded) mode or a somewhat less selective attention mode that allows for more parallel processing of concurrently held active task rules.
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