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 primate brain codes perceived events in a distributed fashion, which raises the question
of how the codes referring to the same event are related to each other. Recent findings …

There is disagreement in the literature about the exact nature of the phenomenon of
empathy. There are emotional, cognitive, and conditioning views, applying in varying …

The fully updated eighth edition of Cognitive Psychology: A Student's Handbook provides
comprehensive yet accessible coverage of all the key areas in the field ranging from visual …

The authors present the central capacity sharing (CCS) model and derive equations
describing its behaviors to explain results from dual-task situations. The predictions of the …

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 …

Recently, there have been a number of advances in technology, including in mobile devices,
globalization of companies, display technologies and healthcare, all of which require …

The theory of event coding (TEC) is a general framework explaining how perceived and
produced events (stimuli and responses) are cognitively represented and how their …

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

A theory of executive control is presented that proposes that executive processes control
subordinate processes by manipulating their parameters, reconfiguring them to respond in …