Comprehensive Dual Task Training: Hold, Process, Generate, Recall
The science of dual task (DT) has been a passion of mine since 1992. Thirty years later, I am just as excited about the improvements that we are making, and the contributions I have left to submit. Over the past 8 months, I have come to conclude that we do not utilize a comprehensive palate of cognitive skills in DT interference, or testing. We need to test and train patients in each of four distinct cognitive categories:
Hold: Working memory. Information that you will receive and need to retrieve or reiterate in seconds and minutes from now. “Take a left on Commercial, a right on Madrona and a right on 25th”
Process: Manipulating information into a different expression. This includes spatial rotation (shapes, words), calculations, response-inhibition (Go-No-Go).
Generate: Creating alternative uses for an object, solutions to a posed problem, or populating a cognitive set (words that start with __ ”
Recall: Retrieving stored information in the form of episodic or semantic material.
Thanks for describing cognitive areas to test and treat as needed for dual task training.
You are most welcome Alyson!