ArticleJournal of cognition2020
Dual-Task Performance: Theoretical Analysis and an Event-Coding Account.
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- Constraints on multi-item working memory access: performance costs and retrieval dynamics.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Erroneous saccade co-execution during manual action control is independent of oculomotor stimulus-response translation ease.Psychological research · 2024Article
- A Gestalt account of human behavior is supported by evidence from switching between single and dual actions.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Individual differences in everyday multitasking behavior and its relation to cognition and personality.Psychological research · 2023Review
- Mutual interference between memory encoding and motor skills: the influence of motor expertise.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Abnormal neural oscillations during gait and dual-task in Parkinson's disease.Frontiers in systems neuroscience · 2022Review
- Trade-Off vs. Common Factor-Differentiating Resource-Based Explanations From Their Alternative.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- The impact of predictability on dual-task performance and implications for resource-sharing accounts.Cognitive research: principles and implications · 2021Article
- The State-of-the-art of Research into Human Multitasking: An Editorial.Journal of cognition · 2021Article
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Abstract
Theorizing on dual- and multi-tasking has not made much progress since the early insight of Telford (1931) and Welford (1952) that response selection may represent a bottleneck in human information processing. A closer look reveals that the questions being asked in dual-task research are not particularly interesting or realistic, and the answers being given lack mechanistic detail. In fact, present theorizing can be considered mere empirical generalization, which has led to merely labeling processing bottlenecks rather than describing how they operate and how they actually produce the bottleneck. As a template for how to overcome this theoretical gap, the Theory of Event Coding (TEC) is applied to dual-task performance. It is shown that TEC, which has not been developed to account for, and has not yet been applied to dual-task performance and its deficits, can nevertheless easily account for the key findings guiding resource and stage theories, while making the underlying mechanisms explicit and transparent. It is thus suggested to consider multitasking costs a mere byproduct of the typical functioning of the cognitive system that needs no dedicated niche theorizing. Rather, what is needed is more mechanistic detail and a more integrative account that can deal with findings related to both resource theory and stage theory.
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