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ArticleThe Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience2025

Multitasking Practice Eliminates Modality-Based Interference by Separating Task Representations in Sensory Brain Regions.

Marie Mueckstein, Kai Görgen, Stephan Heinzel, Urs Granacher, Michael A Rapp, Christine Stelzel

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Article in The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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Marie MuecksteinDepartment of Experimental and Neurocognitive Psychology, International Psychoanalytic University, 10555 Berlin, Germany mariemueckstein@gmail.com.ORCID 0000-0002-7113-0879
Kai GörgenBernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Berlin and Berlin Center for Advanced Neuroimaging, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of the Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, 10115 Berlin, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-4711-9629
Stephan HeinzelDepartment of Clinical Psychology, Freie Universität, 14195 Berlin, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-2325-900X
Urs GranacherDepartment of Sport and Sport Science, University of Freiburg, 79102 Freiburg i.B., Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-7095-813X
Michael A RappDepartment of Social and Preventive Medicine, Universität Potsdam, 14476 Potsdam, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-0106-966X
Christine StelzelDepartment of Experimental and Neurocognitive Psychology, International Psychoanalytic University, 10555 Berlin, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-0929-395X

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Abstract

The debate on the neural basis of multitasking costs evolves around neural overlap between concurrently performed tasks. Recent evidence suggests that training-related reductions in representational overlap in fronto-parietal brain regions predict multitasking improvements. Cognitive theories assume that overlap of task representations may lead to unintended information exchange between tasks (i.e., crosstalk). Modality-based crosstalk was suggested as a source for multitasking costs in multisensory settings. Robust findings of increased costs for certain modality mappings may be explained by crosstalk between the stimulus modality in one task and sensory action consequences in the concurrently performed task. Whether modality-based crosstalk emerges from representational overlap in general fronto-parietal multitasking regions or modality-specific regions is not known yet. In this functional neuroimaging study, we investigate neural overlap during multitasking performance in humans, focusing on modality compatibility by employing multivariate pattern analysis and modality-specific practice interventions in three groups (total

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Auditory CortexAuditory PerceptionBrainMultitasking BehaviorPractice, PsychologicalPsychomotor PerformanceAcoustic StimulationAdultBrain MappingFemaleHumansMagnetic Resonance ImagingMaleParietal LobePhotic StimulationYoung Adultcrosstalkdual taskexecutive controlMVPApractice

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PMCPMC11756619

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