Balance recovery stepping responses during walking were not affected by a concurrent cognitive task among older adults by Inbal Paran, Hadas Nachmani, Moti Salti, Ilan Shelef, Itshak Melzer

“…Conclusions In situations where postural threat is substantial, such as unexpected balance loss during walking, balance recovery reactions were unaffected by concurrent cognitive load in older adults (i.e., posture first strategy). …”
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Enhanced Theta-Band Coherence Between Midfrontal and Posterior Parietal Areas Reflects Post-feedback Adjustments in the State of Outcome Uncertainty by Yulia M. Nurislamova, Nikita A. Novikov, Nikita A. Novikov, Natalia A. Zhozhikashvili, Boris V. Chernyshev, Boris V. Chernyshev, Boris V. Chernyshev

“…Yet most of such studies involved visual tasks with relatively moderate cognitive load and strong dependence on motor inhibition – thus highlighting sensory, executive and motor effects while underestimating sensorimotor transformation and related aspects of decision making. …”
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Using Clinical Data Visualizations in Electronic Health Record User Interfaces to Enhance Medical Student Diagnostic Reasoning: Randomized Experiment by Lucille Cheng, Yalini Senathirajah

“…ObjectiveIn this experimental pilot study, we aimed to (1) attempt to induce System-1—type diagnostic reasoning in inexperienced medical students through the acquisition of cognitive user interface heuristics and (2) understand the impact of clinical patient data visualizations on students' cognitive load and medical education. MethodsThe participants were third- and fourth-year medical students recruited from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine who had completed 1+ clinical rotations. …”
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How is physicians’ implicit prejudice against the obese and mentally ill moderated by specialty and experience? by Chloë FitzGerald, Christian Mumenthaler, Delphine Berner, Mélinée Schindler, Tobias Brosch, Samia Hurst

“…Secondary outcomes included examining the malleability of implicit bias via two video interventions and a condition of cognitive load, correlations of implicit bias with responses to a clinical vignette, and correlations with explicit prejudice. …”
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Beat Gestures for Comprehension and Recall: Differential Effects of Language Learners and Native Listeners by Patrick Louis Rohrer, Patrick Louis Rohrer, Elisabeth Delais-Roussarie, Pilar Prieto, Pilar Prieto

“…These results suggest that frequent, naturally-modeled beat gestures in longer discourses may increase cognitive load for language learners, resulting in negative effects on both memory and language understanding. …”
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Early Attentional Modulation by Working Memory Training in Young Adult ADHD Patients during a Risky Decision-Making Task by Manon E. Jaquerod, Sarah K. Mesrobian, Alessandro E. P. Villa, Michel Bader, Alessandra Lintas

“…<b>Conclusion</b>: Partial restoration of early selective attentional processes in ADHD patients might occur after WMT with a high cognitive load. Modified frontal sites&#8217; activities might constitute a neural marker of this effect in a gambling task. …”
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Altered Neuronal Responses During an Affective Stroop Task in Adolescents With Conduct Disorder by Lynn V. Fehlbaum, Nora M. Raschle, Willeke M. Menks, Willeke M. Menks, Martin Prätzlich, Eva Flemming, Letizia Wyss, Felix Euler, Margaret Sheridan, Philipp Sterzer, Christina Stadler

“…Participants were presented with an emotional stimulus (negative/neutral) followed by a Stroop task with varying cognitive load (congruent/incongruent/blank trials). fMRI analysis included standard preprocessing, region of interest analyses (amygdala, insula, ventromedial prefrontal cortex) and whole-brain analyses based on a 2(group) × 2(emotion) × 3(task) full-factorial ANOVA. …”
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EEG Alpha and Beta Band Functional Connectivity and Network Structure Mark Hub Overload in Mild Cognitive Impairment During Memory Maintenance by Zsuzsanna Fodor, András Horváth, Zoltán Hidasi, Alida A. Gouw, Alida A. Gouw, Cornelis J. Stam, Gábor Csukly

“…This suggests a rerouted network in the MCI group with a more centralized topology and a more unequal traffic load distribution.Conclusion: Alpha- and beta-band FC measured by AEC-c correlates with cognitive load-related modulation, with subtle medial temporal lobe atrophy, and with the disruption of hippocampal fiber integrity in the earliest stages of cognitive decline. …”
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Analysing domain-specific problem-solving processes within authentic computer-based learning and training environments by using eye-tracking: a scoping review by Christian W. Mayer, Andreas Rausch, Jürgen Seifried

“…Performance is related to prior knowledge and differences in cognitive load. Eye-tracking, (in combination with other data sources) may be a valid method for further research on problem-solving processes in computer-based simulations, may help identify different patterns of problem-solving processes between performance groups, and may hold additional potential for individual learning support.…”
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Binocular Vision, Visual Function, and Pupil Dynamics in People Living With Dementia and Their Relation to the Rate of Cognitive Decline and Structural Changes Within the Brain: Pr... by Piano, Marianne, Nilforooshan, Ramin, Evans, Simon

“…Pupillary responses under cognitive load also have the potential to be a risk marker for cognitive decline in people living with dementia and can be combined with the above measures for a comprehensive evaluation of clinical visual changes in people living with dementia and their relation to changes in cognitive status, sleep quality, and cortical structure or function. …”
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Profiles of Motor-Cognitive Interference in Parkinson’s Disease—The Trail-Walking-Test to Discriminate between Motor Phenotypes by Thomas J. Klotzbier, Nadja Schott, Quincy J. Almeida

“…With an increase in the cognitive load, the time to complete the tasks (seconds) became longer in all groups, <i>F</i>(1.23, 73.5) = 121, <i>p</i> < 0.001, <i>ɳ</i>²_p = 0.670. …”
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Eye movements in real and simulated driving and navigation control - Foreword to the Special Issue by Rudolf Groner, Enkelejda Kasneci

“…Estimating pilots’ cognitive load from ocular parameters through simulation and in-flight studies. …”
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Design and Formative Evaluation of a Virtual Voice-Based Coach for Problem-solving Treatment: Observational Study by Thomas Kannampallil, Corina R Ronneberg, Nancy E Wittels, Vikas Kumar, Nan Lv, Joshua M Smyth, Ben S Gerber, Emily A Kringle, Jillian A Johnson, Philip Yu, Lesley E Steinman, Olu A Ajilore, Jun Ma

“…Several design suggestions identified from the study including reducing temporal and cognitive load during conversational interactions, developing more natural conversations, and expanding privacy and security features were incorporated in the revised version of Lumen. …”
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Interactive Animation Multimedia for Knowing the Words (CV+CV) for Student with Learning Disabilities by Aliyah Yahya, Mohd Mokhtar Tahar

“…The research method uses the Mayer’s Multimedia Learning Theory, which is based on Sweller’s Cognitive Load Theory (Chandler and Sweller). The research data was collected through a qualitative method and research design is a case study. …”
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Timing of reactive stepping among individuals with sub-acute stroke: effects of ‘single-task’ and ‘dual-task’ conditions by Alison Schinkel-Ivy, Andrew H. Huntley, Elizabeth L. Inness, Avril Mansfield

“…This study aimed to determine whether increased cognitive load resulted in altered reactive stepping in individuals with sub-acute stroke, compared to a reactive stepping trial with no secondary task. …”
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Isolating the Effects of Word’s Emotional Valence on Subsequent Morphosyntactic Processing: An Event-Related Brain Potentials Study by Javier Espuny, Laura Jiménez-Ortega, Laura Jiménez-Ortega, David Hernández-Gutiérrez, Francisco Muñoz, Francisco Muñoz, Sabela Fondevila, Sabela Fondevila, Pilar Casado, Pilar Casado, Manuel Martín-Loeches, Manuel Martín-Loeches

“…In addition, we aimed at testing whether these effects vary as a function of the task performed with the emotion-laden words, to assess their robustness across variations in attention and cognitive load during the processing of the emotional words. …”
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Home blood pressure data visualization for the management of hypertension: designing for patient and physician information needs by Richelle J. Koopman, Shannon M. Canfield, Jeffery L. Belden, Pete Wegier, Victoria A. Shaffer, K. D. Valentine, Akshay Jain, Linsey M. Steege, Sonal J. Patil, Mihail Popescu, Michael L. LeFevre

“…Better information display may support clinician-patient hypertension decision making through reduced cognitive load and improved situational awareness. Methods A multidisciplinary team employed iterative user-centered design to create a blood pressure visualization EHR prototype that included patient-generated blood pressure data. …”
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Contribution of the Lateral Prefrontal Cortex to Cognitive-Postural Multitasking by Christine Stelzel, Christine Stelzel, Hannah Bohle, Hannah Bohle, Gesche Schauenburg, Henrik Walter, Henrik Walter, Urs Granacher, Michael A. Rapp, Stephan Heinzel, Stephan Heinzel

“…For this purpose, a one-back working memory task was performed either as single task or as dual task in order to vary cognitive load. Participants performed these cognitive single and dual tasks either during upright stance on a balance pad that was placed on top of a force plate or during fMRI measurement with little to no postural demands. …”
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Mixed Reality Improves 3D Visualization and Spatial Awareness of Bone Tumors for Surgical Planning in Orthopaedic Oncology: A Proof of Concept Study by Wong KC, Sun EY, Wong IOL, Kumta SM

“…When using MR technology with HMDs, the surgeon reported no discomfort.Conclusion: MR technology may improve 3D visualization and spatial awareness of bone tumors in patients’ anatomies and may facilitate surgical planning before skin incisions in orthopedic oncology surgery. With less cognitive load and better ergonomics, surgeons can focus on patients and surgical tasks with MR technology. …”
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Embodied Intelligence: Smooth Coping in the Learning Intelligent Decision Agent Cognitive Architecture by Christian Kronsted, Christian Kronsted, Sean Kugele, Sean Kugele, Zachariah A. Neemeh, Zachariah A. Neemeh, Kevin J. Ryan, Stan Franklin

“…Smooth coping is skillful action that has become habituated and ingrained, generally placing less stress on cognitive load than considered and deliberative thought and action. …”
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