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

Reaction time is believed to be a good indicator of the speed and efficiency of mental
processes and is a ubiquitous variable in the behavioral sciences. Despite this popularity …

The task-switching paradigm offers enormous possibilities to study cognitive control as well
as task interference. The current review provides an overview of recent research on both …

The task-switching paradigm is being increasingly used as a tool for studying cognitive
control and task coordination. Different procedural variations have been developed. They …

Goal-directed action in changing environments requires a dynamic balance between
complementary control modes, which serve antagonistic adaptive functions (eg, to shield …

Organizations use multiple team membership to enhance individual and team productivity
and learning, but this structure creates competing pressures on attention and information …

The concept of inhibition plays a major role in cognitive psychology. In the present article,
we review the evidence for the inhibition of task sets. In the first part, we critically discuss …

The mobile phone is a breakthrough advance for human communication. But with the
plethora of choices available via smartphone, individuals who are deficient in self-regulation …

We investigated the effect of short interruptions on performance of a task that required
participants to maintain their place in a sequence of steps each with their own performance …

More than five decades after the seminal works on how individuals process information and
make decisions within organizations were published (Cyert & March, 1963; Simon, 1957) …