Cortical Tracking of Continuous Speech Under Bimodal Divided Attention by Zilong Xie, Christian Brodbeck, Bharath Chandrasekaran

“…We recorded electroencephalographic (EEG) responses when human participants performed a challenging primary visual task, imposing low or high cognitive load while listening to audiobook stories as a secondary task. …”
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Learning to walk with a wearable robot in 880 simple steps: a pilot study on motor adaptation by Florian L. Haufe, Alessia M. Kober, Peter Wolf, Robert Riener, Michele Xiloyannis

“…Motor adaptation was likely driven by the formation of an internal model for feedforward motor control as evidenced by the reduction of burst-like muscle activity at the cyclic end of robotic assistance and an increase in arm-swing asymmetry previously associated with increased cognitive load. Conclusion Humans appear to adapt to walking assistance from a wearable robot over 880 steps by forming an internal model for feedforward control. …”
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Neural substrates of L2-L1 transfer effects on phonological awareness in young Chinese-English bilingual children by Jia-Wei Kou, Li-Ying Fan, Hsin-Chin Chen, Shiou-Yuan Chen, Xiaosu Hu, Kehui Zhang, Ioulia Kovelman, Tai-Li Chou

“…Also, compared to monolinguals, bilingual children showed more bilateral frontal activation in Chinese, potentially reflecting a mixed influence from L2-L1 transfer effects and increased cognitive load of bilingual exposure. These results elucidate the developmental adjustments in the neural substrates associated with early bilingual exposure in phonological processing, offering valuable insights into the bilingual learning process.…”
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Video-based simulations in teacher education: the role of learner characteristics as capacities for positive learning experiences and high performance by Michael Nickl, Sina A. Huber, Daniel Sommerhoff, Elias Codreanu, Stefan Ufer, Tina Seidel

“…To understand the learning process in such simulations, it is necessary to determine how cognitive and motivational learner characteristics influence situative learning experiences, such as the perception of authenticity, cognitive load, and situational motivation, during the simulation and how they affect aspects of performance. …”
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Motivational interviewing skills practice enhanced with artificial intelligence: ReadMI by Paul J. Hershberger, Yong Pei, Dean A. Bricker, Timothy N. Crawford, Ashutosh Shivakumar, Angie Castle, Katharine Conway, Raveendra Medaramitta, Maria Rechtin, Josephine F. Wilson

“…This human-artificial intelligence teaming may help reduce the cognitive load on a training facilitator. Methods During their Family Medicine clerkship, 125 third-year medical students were scheduled in pairs to participate in a 90-minute MI training session, with each student doing two role-plays as the physician. …”
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The Current State of Subjective Training Load Monitoring—a Practical Perspective and Call to Action by Joseph O. C. Coyne, G. Gregory Haff, Aaron J. Coutts, Robert U. Newton, Sophia Nimphius

“…Common issues with using subjective TL monitoring, including a lack of differentiation between biomechanical, physiological, and cognitive load, may be overcome by considering psychometric measurement best practices, finer graded scales, and differential ratings of perceived exertion. …”
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Increasing working memory load reduces processing of cross-modal task-irrelevant stimuli even after controlling for task difficulty and executive capacity by Sharon Sanz Simon, Erich Tusch, Phillip J. Holcomb, Kirk R Daffner

“…The classic account of the Load Theory (LT) of attention suggests that increasing cognitive load leads to greater processing of task-irrelevant stimuli due to competition for limited executive resource that reduces the ability to actively maintain current processing priorities. …”
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Autobiographical Implicit Association Test and eye movements: fixations topography enables detection of autobiographical memories by Andrea Zangrossi, Andrea Zangrossi, Liisa Camilla Gatto, Virginia Lanfranchi, Cristina Scarpazza, Cristina Scarpazza, Miriam Celli, Giuseppe Sartori

“…This unbalanced allocation of attention to the category labels was quantified by the eye-D index and was found to be highly correlated to the standard aIAT-D index.DiscussionThis suggests that more fixations to the category labels could indicate increased cognitive load and monitoring of response conflicts. These preliminary results highlight eye-tracking as a tool to detect autobiographical memories covertly while performing the aIAT.…”
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Cognitive Effort during Visuospatial Problem Solving in Physical Real World, on Computer Screen, and in Virtual Reality by Raimundo da Silva Soares, Kevin L. Ramirez-Chavez, Altona Tufanoglu, Candida Barreto, João Ricardo Sato, Hasan Ayaz

“…Immersive virtual environments (VRs) have the growing potential to reduce cognitive load and improve spatial reasoning. However, traditional methods struggle to assess the mental effort required for visuospatial processes due to the difficulty in verbalizing actions and other limitations in self-reported evaluations. …”
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Disentangling listening effort and memory load beyond behavioural evidence: Pupillary response to listening effort during a concurrent memory task. by Yue Zhang, Alexandre Lehmann, Mickael Deroche

“…The current findings demonstrate that additional cognitive load during a speech intelligibility task could disturb the well-established relation between pupillary response and listening effort. …”
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EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF DEMOTIVATORS AND MEMES PERCEPTION COMPLEXITY by Aleksandra V. Gorbacheva, Alexandrа A. Berlin Khenis, Alexandra N. Puchkova, Mikhail A. Osadchiy

“…This provides an opportunity for further research in this direction and, in the future, will enable the development of norms of cognitive load of judicial linguists who analyse multimodal extremist texts.…”
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Effect of age on spatial memory performance in real museum vs. computer simulation by Maria Korman, Patrice L. Weiss, Michal Hochhauser, Rachel Kizony

“…Extraneous, task-irrelevant cognitive load in real environments is usually high and might interfere with spatial memory abilities of older adults. …”
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Preferred Sources of Information, Knowledge, and Acceptance of Automated Vehicle Systems: Effects of Gender and Age by Pamela M. Greenwood, Carryl L. Baldwin

“…Vehicle automation can decrease the sensory-cognitive load of the driving task and many advanced automated safety features can decrease crash severity. …”
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Trialling HyFlex at TU Dublin – stakeholders’ voices and experiences by Frances Boylan, Geraldine Gorham, Catherine Gorman, Jen Harvey, Louise Lynch, Niall Minto, Ziene Mottiar

“…From a lecturer's perspective, key challenges related to the technology, student engagement and high cognitive load. The research showed that some students who avail of university learning supports preferred the HyFlex approach as it felt that it gave them equal opportunity and allowed them to learn in a way that suited them best. …”
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Deception detection with machine learning: A systematic review and statistical analysis by Alex Sebastião Constâncio, Denise Fukumi Tsunoda, Helena de Fátima Nunes Silva, Jocelaine Martins da Silveira, Deborah Ribeiro Carvalho

“…The findings include observations of the following: language and culture, emotional features, psychological traits, cognitive load, facial cues, complexity, performance, and Machine Learning topics. …”
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Analysing the Relationship Between Mental Load or Mental Effort and Metacomprehension Under Different Conditions of Multimedia Design by Lenka Schnaubert, Sascha Schneider

“…Cognitive load theory assumes effort may only lead to comprehension if the material-induced load leaves enough resources for learning processes. …”
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Executive function during exercise is diminished by prolonged cognitive effort in men by Hayato Tsukamoto, Kento Dora, Benjamin S. Stacey, Hibiki Tsumura, Yoshino Murakami, Christopher J. Marley, Damian M. Bailey, Takeshi Hashimoto

“…At rest, prolonged cognitive load (pCL) impairs reaction time (RT). In contrast, exercise improves RT and EF. …”
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A Gamification Framework for Cognitive Assessment and Cognitive Training: Qualitative Study by Khaleghi, Ali, Aghaei, Zahra, Mahdavi, Mohammad Amin

“…ConclusionsWe found that (1) an intermediate design framework is needed to gamify cognitive tasks, which means that game elements should be selected by considering current cognitive assessment or training context characteristics since game elements may impose an irrelevant cognitive load that, in turn, can jeopardize data quality; (2) in addition to developing a new gamified cognitive task from scratch, 2 gamification techniques are widely used (first, adding game elements to an existing cognitive task and second, mapping an existing game to a cognitive function or impairment to assess or train it); and (3) further research is required to investigate the interplay of cognitive processes and game mechanics.…”
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An Optimization Framework for Information Management in Adaptive Automotive Human–Machine Interfaces by Francesco Tufano, Sushant Waman Bahadure, Manuela Tufo, Luigi Novella, Giovanni Fiengo, Stefania Santini

“…To achieve these goals, the methodology evaluates through two indexes how applications’ requests impact the driver’s cognitive load and the waiting queue for actions. The optimization procedure has been solved offline to define adaptive strategies for scheduling five application requests, i.e., forward collision warning, system interaction, turn indicators, infotainment volume increase, and phone calls. …”
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Collaborative and individual learning of geography in immersive virtual reality: An effectiveness study. by Michal Sedlák, Čeněk Šašinka, Zdeněk Stachoň, Jiří Chmelík, Milan Doležal

“…The results were discussed in relation to the cognitive load theories, and future research directions for iVR learning were proposed.…”
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