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The dual-task practice advantage: Empirical evidence and cognitive mechanisms.
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30 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 71 citations in OpenAlex.
- A systematic review of functional near-infrared spectroscopy-based task paradigms in stroke rehabilitation.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2025Pooled it
- The effects of cognitive-motor dual-task training on athletes' cognition and motor performance.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Pooled it
- Brain activation of the PFC during dual-task walking in stroke patients: A systematic review and meta-analysis of functional near-infrared spectroscopy studies.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2023Pooled it
- A Systematic Review Exploring the Theories Underlying the Improvement of Balance and Reduction in Falls Following Dual-Task Training among Older Adults.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Pooled it
- Cognitive and balance dual-task training for middle-aged and older individuals with schizophrenia: a three-arm randomized controlled trial.European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience · 2026Trial
- Dual task measures in older adults with and without cognitive impairment: response to simultaneous cognitive-exercise training and minimal clinically important difference estimates.BMC geriatrics · 2023Trial
- Comparison between soldiers and fitness-matched civilians on sustained attention, neuromuscular fatigue and perceived responses during an exhaustive cognitive-motor dual-task.European journal of applied physiology · 2026Article
- Advancing an account of hierarchical dual-task control: A focused review on abstract higher-level task representations in dual-task situations.Quarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006) · 2026Review
- Neural Oscillatory and Network Signatures of Age-Related Cognitive Decline Under Motor-Cognitive Dual-Task Conditions.Brain sciences · 2026Article
- Motor sequences resist automatization as attentional demands increase with sequence learning.NPJ science of learning · 2026Article
- The effects of cognitive-motor and motor-motor dual tasks on gait performance and dynamic stability in older adults with and without sarcopenia: a cross-sectional study.BMC geriatrics · 2026Article
- Optimizing action separation and integration through moderate practice.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2026Article
- Investigating differential practice effects on cued task-order coordination and coordination adjustment in dual tasks.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Assessing the attentional demand: improvements to the experimental protocol and possible learning effects.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Practice effects on dual-task order coordination and its sequential adjustment.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2024Article
- A mechanism underlying improved dual-task performance after practice: Reviewing evidence for the memory hypothesis.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2024Review
- Effects of Cognitive-Motor and Motor-Motor Dual Tasks on Gait Performance in Older Adults with Sarcopenia.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Stimulating prefrontal cortex facilitates training transfer by increasing representational overlap.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2024Article
- Comparing laboratory and online settings: equivalence in training and transfer effects for training task-order coordination processes.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Current trends in psychotherapies and psychosocial interventions for people with dementia: a scoping review of randomized controlled trials.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
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Abstract
Practice of two simultaneous component tasks in dual-task situations leads to an improvement in dual-task performance. The present paper reviews empirical evidence for this practice-related improvement and discusses its underlying cognitive mechanisms. In particular, the robustness of the phenomenon of dual-task practice advantage (DTPA) is evaluated. This phenomenon is described as an advantage in dual-task performance at the end of dual-task practice (i.e., simultaneous task practice) in comparison to the dual-task performance after single-task practice (i.e., separate task practice). The review investigates the existence of empirical evidence of the DTPA phenomenon and specifications of its mechanisms in the context of the allocation and scheduling hypothesis and the integration hypothesis. Evidence for the existence of the DTPA phenomenon and the allocation and scheduling hypothesis was demonstrated in dual tasks with (1) combinations of two sensorimotor tasks, (2) combinations of one continuous task and one sensorimotor task, (3) combinations of two working-memory tasks, and (4) combinations of one motor task and one cognitive task. In contrast, the findings demonstrate that the DTPA phenomenon in dual tasks with (5) combinations of two long-term memory retrieval tasks can instead be explained by the integration hypothesis. The relevance of these findings is discussed in relation to real-world problems.
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