TY  - GEN
A1  - Liu, Shuyan
A1  - Schad, Daniel
A1  - Kuschpel, Maxim S.
A1  - Rapp, Michael Armin
A1  - Heinz, Andreas
T1  - Music and Video Gaming during Breaks
N2  - Different systems for habitual versus goal-directed control are thought to underlie human decision-making. Working memory is known to shape these decision-making systems and
their interplay, and is known to support goal-directed decision making even under stress. Here, we investigated if and how decision systems are differentially influenced by breaks filled with diverse everyday life activities known to modulate working memory performance. We used a within-subject design where young adults listened to music and played a video game during breaks interleaved with trials of a sequential two-step Markov decision task, designed to assess habitual as well as goal-directed decision making. Based on a neurocomputational model of task performance, we observed that for individuals with a rather limited working memory capacity video gaming as compared to music reduced reliance on the goal-directed decision-making system, while a rather large working memory capacity prevented such a decline. Our findings suggest differential effects of everyday activities on key decision-making processes.
T3  - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe - 289 
KW  - Cognition
KW  - Cognitive impairment
KW  - Decision making
KW  - Games
KW  - Learning
KW  - Music cognition
KW  - Video games
KW  - Working memory
Y1  - 2016
UR  - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/9070
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-90700
SP  - 1
EP  - 12
ER  -