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Let's Get Physical: The Dual-Task Costs Of Multiple Motor Responses, Taylor Nicole Hutson
Let's Get Physical: The Dual-Task Costs Of Multiple Motor Responses, Taylor Nicole Hutson
Masters Theses and Doctoral Dissertations
Dual-task costs occur when attention is divided among two or more concurrent tasks. Most dual-task studies involve paradigms where participants complete two, concurrent cognitive tasks; in these studies, performance on one or both tasks are slower and/or less accurate. The goal of this study was to examine whether dual-task costs would exist when participants completed a cognitive task while walking and whether those costs would be greater when the cognitive task required a motor-based response or when the task was more difficult. Twenty-two college students completed four blocks of a visual search task while walking. The difficult and the manual …
Assessing Executive Function As It Relates To Self-Regulation, Sarah K. Finley
Assessing Executive Function As It Relates To Self-Regulation, Sarah K. Finley
Masters Theses and Doctoral Dissertations
Slips of action are cognitive errors that occur during routine tasks in everyday life (Clark, Parakh, Smilek, & Roy, 2012). Minimizing these everyday errors involves executive function, a system of complementary cognitive processes that enable control over thoughts and actions, including attention, inhibition, cognitive switching, and maintaining and manipulating the contents of working memory (Norman & Shallice, 2000). Many aspects of executive function are necessary for self-regulation, or the management of habitual, dominant, prepotent responses (Hamilton, Vohs, Sellier, & Meyvis, 2011). The present study explored the relationship between self-regulation, using self-report questionnaires, and executive function, using task-based assessments. Greater self-regulatory …