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

The prospect of enhancing cognition through behavioural training interventions, for
example, the repetitive practice of cognitive tasks or metacognitive strategy instruction, has …

Adaptive control of thought-rational (ACT-R; JR Anderson & C. Lebiere, 1998) has evolved
into a theory that consists of multiple modules but also explains how these modules are …

" The question for me is how can the human mind occur in the physical universe. We now
know that the world is governed by physics. We now understand the way biology nestles …

Research on attention has evolved dramatically in recent years. There are now many new
ways of studying how we are able to select some aspects for processing, whilst ignoring …

In the context of performance optimizations in multitasking, a central debate has unfolded in
multitasking research around whether cognitive processes related to different tasks proceed …

The authors propose the idea of threaded cognition, an integrated theory of concurrent
multitasking--that is, performing 2 or more tasks at once. Threaded cognition posits that …

The basal ganglia play a central role in cognition and are involved in such general functions
as action selection and reinforcement learning. Here, we present a model exploring the …

Multitasking is all around us: the office worker interrupted by a phone call, the teenager
texting while driving, the salesperson chatting while entering an order. When multitasking …

Understanding of the factors that influence stimulus-response (SR) compatibility and
determine when and how compatibility effects will arise is a necessary foundation for …