What is it about?
Multitasking is commonplace in modern life, for example, doing two things simultaneously. Changing such processing style does not succeed right away. In three experiments, we have shown that even though instructed participants cannot as easily let go of a task of a dual task that is called irrelevant. Changes in the way we process tasks take time and come with performance decrements.
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Why is it important?
This research helps us to understand how we mentally represent tasks.
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This page is a summary of: The costs of shifting from dual-task to single-task processing: Applying the fade-out paradigm to dual tasking., Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition, December 2024, American Psychological Association (APA),
DOI: 10.1037/xlm0001414.
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