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

Working memory (WM) has limited capacity. This leaves attention with the important role of
allowing into storage only the most relevant information. It is increasingly evident that …

The relevance of dual-task walking to everyday ambulation is widely acknowledged, and
numerous studies have demonstrated that dual-task interference can significantly impact …

Cognitive control has long been one of the most active areas of computational modeling
work in cognitive science. The focus on computational models as a medium for specifying …

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 …

Of the many brain events evoked by a visual stimulus, which are specifically associated with
conscious perception, and which merely reflect non-conscious processing? Several recent …

The Shape of Thought: How Mental Adaptations Evolve presents a road map for an
evolutionary psychology of the twenty-first century. It brings together theory from biology and …

In 4 experiments, participants alternated between different tasks or performed the same task
repeatedly. The tasks for 2 of the experiments required responding to geometric objects in …

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 …

When 2 targets are presented among distractors in rapid serial visual presentation, correct
identification of the 1st target results in a deficit for a 2nd target appearing within 200–500 …