In a 2003 paper, Nick Yeung, Ph.D, and Monsell quantitatively modeled the complex and sometimes surprising experimental interactions between relative task dominance and task …

Multitasking refers to the ability to coordinate the completion of several tasks to achieve an overall goal. Task switching during multitasking is self-initiated as there are not salient prompts to …

These factor effects were additive, supporting a model of executive control that has goal-shifting and rule-activation stages for task switching. It appears that rule activation takes more time for …

With the constantly increasing popularity of human multitasking, it is crucial to know why people engage in simultaneous task performance or switch between unfinished tasks.

Numerous studies showed decreased performance in situations that require multiple tasks or actions relative to appropriate control conditions. Because humans often engage in such …

Whether particular tasks can be performed together has been shown to depend on the nature of the tasks, the level of skill attained in each component task, and the relative amount of …

Specifically, individual differences in task switching performance can be explained by a general ability shared with the other two types of paradigms, whereas both general and specific …

"Task Switching and Multitask Performance" / Harold Pashler / Surveys both paradigms and explores possible commonalities between the processing limitations they reveal.

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Previous studies examining gender difference in multitasking used either a concurrent or sequential multitasking paradigm and offered mixed results. This study examined a possibility …