Orthogonal cross-task compatibility: Abstract spatial coding in dual tasks

Process Compatibility: A Neglected Contribution to Dual-Task Costs

Crossmodal action selection: evidence from dual-task compatibility.

Response-related mechanisms of multitasking were studied by analyzing simultaneous processing of responses in different modalities (i.e., crossmodal action). Participants responded to a single auditory stimulus with a saccade, a manual response (single-task conditions), or both (dual-task condition). We used a spatially incompatible stimulus-response mapping for one task, but not for the other....

BACKWARD COMPATIBILITY EFFECTS IN DUAL-TASK PERFORMANCE BACKWARD COMPATIBILITY EFFECTS IN DUAL-TASK PERFORMANCE: IMPLICATIONS FOR CENTRAL INFORMATION PROCESSING By SANDRA

semantic-category-to-response relationships. These findings extend other evidence for automatic semantic-to-response mediation of S-R priming effects (Reynvoet et al., 2002) in dual-task situations, operating in parallel in the unattended task. These findings provide interesting converging evidence for the arrangement of human central information-processing architecture and suggest, along with ...

Stress improves task processing efficiency in dual-tasks.

Psychological stress has attracted much interest as a potential modulator of response control processes. However, especially in dual-task situations, the effect of psychological stress is less understood. In the current study we investigated these effects. "Thirty six" healthy young male participants were exposed to stress applying the socially evaluated cold pressor task (SECPT) or a control c...

Dual-task interference in simple tasks: data and theory.

People often have trouble performing 2 relatively simple tasks concurrently. The causes of this interference and its implications for the nature of attentional limitations have been controversial for 40 years, but recent experimental findings are beginning to provide some answers. Studies of the psychological refractory period effect indicate a stubborn bottleneck encompassing the process of ch...