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Retrieval of a well-established skill is resistant to distraction: Evidence from an implicit probabilistic sequence learning task
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...
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2020
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7728172/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33301471 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0243541 |
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author | Vékony, Teodóra Török, Lilla Pedraza, Felipe Schipper, Kate Pleche, Claire Tóth, László Janacsek, Karolina Nemeth, Dezso |
author_facet | Vékony, Teodóra Török, Lilla Pedraza, Felipe Schipper, Kate Pleche, Claire Tóth, László Janacsek, Karolina Nemeth, Dezso |
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description | 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. |
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spelling | pubmed-77281722020-12-16 Retrieval of a well-established skill is resistant to distraction: Evidence from an implicit probabilistic sequence learning task Vékony, Teodóra Török, Lilla Pedraza, Felipe Schipper, Kate Pleche, Claire Tóth, László Janacsek, Karolina Nemeth, Dezso PLoS One Research Article 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. Public Library of Science 2020-12-10 /pmc/articles/PMC7728172/ /pubmed/33301471 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0243541 Text en © 2020 Vékony et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Vékony, Teodóra Török, Lilla Pedraza, Felipe Schipper, Kate Pleche, Claire Tóth, László Janacsek, Karolina Nemeth, Dezso Retrieval of a well-established skill is resistant to distraction: Evidence from an implicit probabilistic sequence learning task |
title | Retrieval of a well-established skill is resistant to distraction: Evidence from an implicit probabilistic sequence learning task |
title_full | Retrieval of a well-established skill is resistant to distraction: Evidence from an implicit probabilistic sequence learning task |
title_fullStr | Retrieval of a well-established skill is resistant to distraction: Evidence from an implicit probabilistic sequence learning task |
title_full_unstemmed | Retrieval of a well-established skill is resistant to distraction: Evidence from an implicit probabilistic sequence learning task |
title_short | Retrieval of a well-established skill is resistant to distraction: Evidence from an implicit probabilistic sequence learning task |
title_sort | retrieval of a well-established skill is resistant to distraction: evidence from an implicit probabilistic sequence learning task |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7728172/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33301471 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0243541 |
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