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Students learned to raise the skin temperature of their hands while performing no other task or one of two other tasks simultaneously. Other tasks involved checking to see whether a presented word contained the letter E or mentally adding two two-digit numbers. Only mental addition interfered with biofeedback learning. These results support a cognitive information-processing view of biofeedback learning and not a traditional reinforcement view. Suggestions are made for trainers and learners.
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Foos, P.W., Algaze, B. & Kallas, G. Effects of cognitive interference on biofeedback learning. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 30, 123–124 (1992). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03330415
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