Cognitive fatigue of executive processes: Interaction between interference resolution tasks

Persson, Jonas; Welsh, Kathryn; Jonides, John; Reuter‐Lorenz, Patricia A.

doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2006.12.007

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“…We hypothesized that tasks that engage overlapping brain regions should be susceptible to processspecific transfer that could enhance or reduce performance depending, in part, on the training regimen. Our previous work demonstrated process-specific interactions in the form of withinsession fatigue effects across a subset of these tasks (Persson et al, 2007). The training protocols in the present study entailed daily practice sessions distributed across a 2-week period, and were thus designed to produce performance benefits and positive transfer from practiced to unpracticed tasks.…”

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Gaining Control: Training Executive Function and Far Transfer of the Ability to Resolve Interference [retracted]

Persson¹,

Reuter‐Lorenz²

2008

Psychol Sci

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This article has been retracted by both of the authors. During further extension of this work, it was discovered that a mistake had been made in the programming of the working memory training tasks used in this study. This error resulted in the presentation of repeated trial sequences, which were then practiced repeatedly over the 8-day training period. This practice likely resulted in learning of the sequences, rather than training of interference control as we had originally inferred. The first author takes responsibility for this error, and both authors regret the publication of invalid results. In a separate replication (N = 16) of the working memory training condition that used randomized, novel sequences for each of the 8 training days, we

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Gaining Control: Training Executive Function and Far Transfer of the Ability to Resolve Interference [retracted]

Persson¹,

Reuter‐Lorenz²

2008

Psychol Sci

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“…We interpret these patterns over the month-long training interval as related to the depleting effects of the attentional demands required during preparation for the athletic season. According to a resource depletion framework of attention, repeated exposure to high-demand tasks depletes cognitive resources over time and result in poorer performance on subsequent tasks with overlapping demands (Persson et al 2007). Athletes in the present study had a rigorous schedule including daily strength and speed training, multiple weekly footballspecific meetings, end-of-semester final exams, and fitness testing.…”

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“We Are Talking About Practice”: the Influence of Mindfulness vs. Relaxation Training on Athletes’ Attention and Well-Being over High-Demand Intervals

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We investigated the impact of short-form mindfulness training (MT) vs. relaxation training (RT) programs on sustained attention and emotional well-being in college football players (N = 100) during their high-demand pre-season training interval. Participants received 4 weeks of MT (n = 56) or RT (n = 44) and completed the Sustained Attention to Response Task (SART) and questionnaires assessing emotional well-being before and after the training period. Sustained attention was assessed via SART outcomes indexing performance (A′), reaction time variability (intraindividual coefficient of variation (ICV)), and selfreported mind wandering and meta-awareness (Probe 1, Probe 2), while emotional well-being was assessed via the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS), the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (State; STAI-S), and the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression (CES-D) scale. Overall, behavioral measures of sustained attention (A′, ICV) and self-report measures of emotional well-being (PANAS Positive, STAI-S, CES-D) declined during the training interval, suggesting that this was a highdemand interval with cognitive and emotional consequences. Further, while group effects comparing training programs were non-significant, greater engagement (i.e., practice and adherence) in MT, but not RT, predicted greater benefits, akin to protectionfrom-decline, on SART behavioral indices (A′, ICV). Greater engagement in both MT and RT predicted negative change in anxiety and positive change in positive affect over the highdemand interval. These results suggest that, similar to physical training, athletes must sufficiently engage in MT and RT to experience the distinct and overlapping benefits these programs offer over cognitively and emotionally demanding intervals, such as pre-season athletic training.

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“…during rumination). 28,29,35,34,41 To conclude, we can state that although the ability of pain to disrupt current performance is already frequently researched, and its function has been variously described as an evolved interrupt forming part of a general defensive system 4,18,40 , further research to clarify under which conditions pain interferes with task performance is still necessary.…”

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The Interruptive Effect of Pain in a Multitask Environment: An Experimental Investigation

Ryckeghem

Crombez

Eccleston

et al. 2012

The Journal of Pain

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Daily life is characterized by the need to stop, start, repeat, and switch between multiple tasks. Here, we experimentally investigate the effects of pain, and its anticipation, in a multi-task environment. Using a task switching paradigm participants repeated and switched between three tasks, of which one predicted the possible occurrence of pain. Half of the participants received low intensity pain (N=30) and half high intensity pain (N=30). Results showed that pain interferes with the performance of a simultaneous task, independent of the pain intensity. Furthermore pain interferes with the performance on a subsequent task. These effects are stronger with high intensity pain than with low intensity pain. Finally, and of particular importance in this study, interference of pain on a subsequent task was larger when participants switched to another task than when participants repeated the same task. PerspectiveThis article is concerned with the interruptive effect of pain on people"s task performance by using an adapted task switching paradigm. This adapted paradigm may offer unique possibilities to investigate how pain interferes with task performance while people repeat and switch between multiple tasks in a multi-task environment.

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Cognitive fatigue of executive processes: Interaction between interference resolution tasks

Cited by 95 publications

References 40 publications

Gaining Control: Training Executive Function and Far Transfer of the Ability to Resolve Interference [retracted]

Gaining Control: Training Executive Function and Far Transfer of the Ability to Resolve Interference [retracted]

“We Are Talking About Practice”: the Influence of Mindfulness vs. Relaxation Training on Athletes’ Attention and Well-Being over High-Demand Intervals

The Interruptive Effect of Pain in a Multitask Environment: An Experimental Investigation

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