Artikel ; Online: Asymmetric negative transfer effects of working memory training.
2023 Band 51, Heft 7, Seite(n) 1654–1669
Abstract: Gathercole et al. (Journal of Memory and Language, 105, 19-42, 2019) presented a cognitive routine framework for explaining the underlying mechanisms of working memory (WM) training and transfer. This framework conceptualizes training-induced changes as ... ...
Abstract | Gathercole et al. (Journal of Memory and Language, 105, 19-42, 2019) presented a cognitive routine framework for explaining the underlying mechanisms of working memory (WM) training and transfer. This framework conceptualizes training-induced changes as the acquisition of novel cognitive routines similar to learning a new skill. We further infer that WM training might not always generate positive outcomes because previously acquired routines may affect subsequent task performance in various ways. Thus, the present study aimed to demonstrate the negative effects of WM training via two experiments. We conducted Experiment 1 online using a two-phase training paradigm with only three training sessions per phase and replicated the key findings of Gathercole and Norris (in prep.) that training on a backward circle span task (a spatial task) transferred negatively to subsequent training on a backward letter span task (a verbal task). We conducted Experiment 2 using a reversed task order design corresponding to Experiment 1. The results indicated that the transfer from backward letter training to backward circle training was not negative, but rather weakly positive, suggesting that the direction of the negative transfer effect is asymmetric. The present study therefore found that a negative transfer effect can indeed occur under certain WM training designs. The presence of this asymmetric effect indicates that backward circle and backward letter tasks require different optimal routines and that the locus of negative transfer might be the acquisition process of such optimal routines. Hence, the routines already established for backward circle might hinder the development of optimal routines for backward letter, but not vice versa. |
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Mesh-Begriff(e) | Humans ; Memory, Short-Term ; Transfer, Psychology ; Cognitive Training ; Learning ; Task Performance and Analysis |
Sprache | Englisch |
Erscheinungsdatum | 2023-04-21 |
Erscheinungsland | United States |
Dokumenttyp | Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't |
ZDB-ID | 185691-1 |
ISSN | 1532-5946 ; 0090-502X |
ISSN (online) | 1532-5946 |
ISSN | 0090-502X |
DOI | 10.3758/s13421-023-01412-8 |
Datenquelle | MEDical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System OnLINE |
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