In contemporary environments, young children are frequently exposed to diverse audiovisual stimuli and often encounter dual-task situations requiring them to process unrelated stimuli simultaneously. Although dual-task conditions impair children&rsqu...
Background: Medical image processing tasks represented by multi-object segmentation are of great significance for surgical planning, robot-assisted surgery, and surgical safety. However, the exceptionally low contrast among tissues and limited availa...
In the current study, we aimed at evaluating the possible sex differences in cognitive-motor dual-task training (CMDT) effects on the sport and cognitive performance of semi-elite basketball athletes. Moreover, we investigated the CMDT effects on pro...
10 February 2021
Athletes must distribute their attention to many relevant cues during a match. Therefore, athletes’ ability to deal with dual-tasks may be different from the non-athlete population, demanding a deeper investigation within the sports domain. This stud...
Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) compromises executive control, yet brief exercise may yield acute cognitive benefits. We tested whether a single ~10 min bout of physical, cognitive, or combined physical-cognitive exercise modulates Stroop performance...
The present work aimed to evaluate the effect of 3 mg·kg−1 caffeine consumption on the standing and dynamic balance performance of older adults and sought to establish if caffeine ingestion can modulate the influence of a cognitive dual task on balan...
This study addresses the relationship between item response time and item accuracy (i.e., the response time accuracy correlation, RTAC) in figural matrices tests. The dual processing account of response time effects predicts negative RTACs in tasks t...
In this paper, a real-time scheduling problem of a dual-resource flexible job shop with robots is studied. Multiple independent robots and their supervised machine sets form their own work cells. First, a mixed integer programming model is establishe...
The assessment of neuropsychological functions and especially dual-tasking abilities is considered to be increasingly relevant in the assessment of neurological disease, and Multiple Sclerosis (MS) in particular. However, the assessment of dual-taski...
Numerous of our daily activities are performed within multitask or dual task conditions. These conditions involve the interaction of perceptual and motor processes involved in postural control. Age-related changes may negatively impact cognition and...
31 March 2023
Postural control depends on attentional resources besides automatic processes. The dual-task paradigm is a possible approach to analyzing the interference and performance between motor and/or cognitive tasks. Various studies showed that, when individ...
25 December 2022
It has been suggested that implicit motor learning via dual-task or analogy training during gait rehabilitation may yield better outcomes in older adults by reducing the propensity for the conscious processing of movements (movement-specific reinvest...
25 September 2025
Objectives: Sub-second motor timing is critical for skilled performance in domains such as sport, music, and safety-critical multitasking; however, its robustness under cognitive load remains unresolved. Dual-task paradigms offer a method to test whe...
13 January 2023
Many studies have indicated a weakening in several areas of cognitive functioning associated with the normal ageing process. One of the methods supporting cognitive functions in older adults is dual-task training which is based on performing cognitiv...
Background: Participation in soccer imposes high physical, mechanical, and cognitive demands. Recent evidence suggests that cognitive load, often overlooked in injury prevention, interacts with biomechanical factors and injury risk, resembling a dual...
Background: Football performance depends on the integration of physical, technical, and cognitive abilities under constantly changing conditions. In this context, dual-task training combining physical and cognitive demands has emerged as a promising...
The pupillary response reflects mental effort (or cognitive workload) during cognitive and/or motor tasks including standing postural control. EEG has been shown to be a non-invasive measure to assess the cortical involvement of postural control. The...
Background: Age-related changes in motor–cognitive function are associated with altered neural adaptability, particularly during tasks requiring integration of cognitive and motor processes. Dual-task paradigms are commonly used to assess such...
Background. On the assumption that motor actions result from the interaction between cognitive, perceptual, and neurological mechanisms, neuromotor dysfunction–such as in children with Down Syndrome (DS)–is expected to affect the central...
Some theories propose that human cumulative culture is dependent on explicit, system-2, metacognitive processes. To test this, we investigated whether access to working memory is required for cumulative cultural evolution. We restricted access to adu...
Background: Sleep quality is known to affect automatic and executive brain functions such as gait control and cognitive processing. This study aimed to investigate the effect of dual tasks on gait spatiotemporal parameters among young adults with goo...
Cognitive–motor integration is the coordination of cognitive and motor processes; it is commonly impaired among people living with dementia (PWD) and may be improved through exercise. This pilot randomized controlled trial (1:1) aimed to determ...
Evidence supporting a link between gait and cognition is accumulating. However, the relation between executive functioning and spatiotemporal gait parameters has received little attention. This is surprising since these gait variables are related to...
18 November 2019
Binge drinking is a common pattern of alcohol consumption in adolescence and youth. Neurocognitive dual-process models attribute substance use disorders and risk behaviours during adolescence to an imbalance between an overactivated affective-automat...
We used the dual-task paradigm to infer how linguistic information is represented in the brain by indexing its susceptibility to retrieval interference. We measured recognition memory, in bilingual Chinese-English, and monolingual English speakers. P...
Background: People with multiple sclerosis (PwMS) frequently present both cognitive and motor impairments, so it is reasonable to assume they may have difficulties in executing dual-tasks (DT). The aim of the present study is to identify novel techno...
Background: Cognitive and physical deficits are core features of schizophrenia. Although Baduanjin and brisk walking (BW) have shown promise as intervention strategies, comparative evidence with follow-up and considering maintenance is limited. Objec...
28 July 2021
Aging is a global phenomenon affecting numerous developed and developing countries. During this process, the functional state of the body, especially the cognitive state, declines. This research investigated the impact of virtual reality exercises on...
Maintaining balance while performing secondary tasks is essential for daily life. The interplay between motor control and cognitive processes during dual tasks remains equivocal, characterized by mixed findings across studies. This pilot study implem...
Walking encompasses a complex interplay of neuromuscular coordination and cognitive processes. Disruptions in gait can impact personal independence and quality of life, especially among the elderly and neurodegenerative patients. While traditional bi...
Executive function and motor control deficits adversely affect gait performance with age, but the neural correlates underlying this interaction during stair climbing remains unclear. Twenty older adults (72.7 ± 6.9 years) completed single task...
Fibromyalgia is a complex chronic disorder involving persistent widespread pain accompanied by functional limitations, cognitive impairments, and alterations in neural processing. Previous research indicates that exercise-based interventions can play...
Auditory neurofeedback training (NFT) based on brain–computer interfaces (BCIs) has recently entered the precision motor domain as a task-embedded neural state regulation paradigm. Compared to traditional standalone NFT approaches (e.g., relaxa...
Background: In dual-task (DT) conditions, individuals must walk while simultaneously engaging in cognitive or motor tasks, which impacts gait performance, especially in older adults and individuals with Parkinson’s disease (PD). Gait impairment...
Modern fulfillment centers share floor space with human workers, making warehouse multi-robot task allocation a safety-critical problem. We propose SHARP (Safe Heterogeneous Allocation with Risk Prediction), a Transformer-based constrained reinforcem...
The task of joint dialogue act recognition (DAR) and sentiment classification (DSC) aims to predict both the act and sentiment labels of each utterance in a dialogue. Existing methods mainly focus on local or global semantic features of the dialogue...
Children with developmental dyslexia (DD) often struggle with executive function difficulties which can continue into adulthood if not addressed. This double-blinded randomized clinical trial study evaluated the short-term effects of the Verbal Worki...
This study used a dual-task paradigm to explore how stimuli with different semantic links to verbal working memory (WM) content affect attention across sensory channels and time courses. The results show: (1) In the visual channel, stimuli that were...
There is ongoing debate about the contribution of explicit processes to incidental learning, particularly attention, working memory and control mechanisms. Studies generally measure explicit process contributions to incidental learning by comparing d...
30 September 2025
Background: Basketball games involve numerous cognitive-motor dual-task (CMDT) situations, where athletes must execute technical skills while processing complex oncourt information. However, adolescent athletes often experience performance declines u...
The study of cognitive responses and processes while using applications is a critical field in human–computer interaction. This paper aims to determine the mental effort required for different typical tasks with smartphones. Mental effort is ty...
Background/Objectives: This study explore attentional selection and allocation during alarm signal processing in complex environments. Methods: Adopting the dual-task paradigm combining Visual Alarm Task and Main Task with EEG recording, a total of 1...
Industrial heritage contains industrial value, region-specific remains, and cultural identity; however, the extent to which its visual representations support a multicultural reading remains an empirically unresolved question. This study explores the...
Previous research has suggested that there are two modular processes of perspective selection and calculation in level 1 perspective taking. Evidence further showed that verbal working memory is associated with both processes in adults. However, rese...
The human pupil changes size in response to processing demands or cognitive (work)load and emotional processing. Therefore, it is important to test if automatic tracking of cognitive load by pupil-size measurement is possible under conditions of vary...
Background: This study aimed to examine how concurrent working memory (WM) loads affect selective attention, and to explore developmental differences between young adults and children/adolescents aged 10 to 14 years. Methods: We employed a modified S...
Background: There is a critical need for feasible, non-equipment based, safe, and cost-effective exercise interventions to promote muscle strength, dynamic postural balance, and independent mobility in adolescents with cerebral palsy (CP) or spina bi...
Background: Quantitative gait analysis is essential in both clinical and research contexts; however, traditional marker-based motion capture systems are costly and burdensome. Advances in three-dimensional markerless motion capture (3D-MMC) offer mor...
Background/Objectives: Emerging evidence shows that dual tasking as well as the restriction of arm movements independently lead to detrimental effects on walking performance. However, it is unclear whether the deteriorations are more pronounced when...
Many radar applications rely primarily on visual classification for their evaluations. However, new research is integrating textual descriptions alongside visual input and showing that such multimodal fusion improves contextual understanding. A criti...
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