The transfer of global and local processing modes

If so, global/local processing modes would qualify as metacontrol states that are assumed to regulate processing dilemmas, like persistence/flexibility, exploitation/exploration, or speed/accuracy (Goschke, 2000).

Given increasing rates of non-replications of previously demonstrated far transfer from prime tasks that are likely to induce a particular global or local processing bias to logically and temporally unrelated probe tasks, we tested whether near and far transfer can be demonstrated under conditions that should be optimal for such transfer. We reduced the temporal distance between prime and probe trials by integrating them into a dual-task paradigm and used probe tasks that were either almost identical with the prime task, or at least shared the relevant modality and attentional demands.