Music and Video Gaming during Breaks
- 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 ofDifferent 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.…
| Author details: | Shuyan Liu, Daniel SchadORCiDGND, Maxim S. Kuschpel, Michael Armin RappORCiDGND, Andreas HeinzORCiDGND |
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| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1371/JOURNAL.PONE.0150165 |
| ISSN: | 1932-6203 |
| Title of parent work (English): | PLoS one |
| Subtitle (English): | Influence on Habitual versus Goal-Directed Decision Making |
| Publisher: | Public Library of Science |
| Place of publishing: | Lawrence, Kan. |
| Publication type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of first publication: | 2016/03/16 |
| Publication year: | 2016 |
| Publishing institution: | Universität Potsdam |
| Release date: | 2016/05/17 |
| Tag: | Cognition; Cognitive impairment; Decision making; Games; Learning; Music cognition; Video games; Working memory |
| Volume: | 11 |
| Issue: | 3 |
| First page: | 1 |
| Last Page: | 12 |
| Funding institution: | Universität Potsdam, Publikationsfonds |
| Funding number: | PA 2016_11 |
| Organizational units: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Strukturbereich Kognitionswissenschaften |
| DDC classification: | 5 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik / 50 Naturwissenschaften / 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik |
| 6 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften / 61 Medizin und Gesundheit / 610 Medizin und Gesundheit | |
| Peer review: | Referiert |
| Grantor: | Publikationsfonds der Universität Potsdam |
| Publishing method: | Open Access |
| License (German): |  CC-BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International |
| External remark: | Zweitveröffentlichung in der Schriftenreihe Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe ; 289 |
