TY  - GEN
AU  - Mike Wendt
AU  - Tilo Strobach
AU  - Markus Janczyk
TI  - Multitasking: Executive Functioning in Dual-Task and Task Switching Situations
SN  - 978-2-88945-453-2
PY  - 2018///
PB  - Frontiers Media SA
KW  - cognitive plasticity
KW  - multitasking
KW  - task switching
KW  - dual tasking
KW  - cognitive flexibility
KW  - PRP
N1  - Open Access
N2  - Multitasking refers to performance of multiple tasks. The most prominent types of multitasking are situations including either temporal overlap of the execution of multiple tasks (i.e., dual tasking) or executing multiple tasks in varying sequences (i.e., task switching). In the literature, numerous attempts have aimed at theorizing about the specific characteristics of executive functions that control interference between simultaneously and/or sequentially active component of task-sets in these situations. However, these approaches have been rather vague regarding explanatory concepts (e.g., task-set inhibition, preparation, shielding, capacity limitation), widely lacking theories on detailed mechanisms and/ or empirical evidence for specific subcomponents. The present research topic aims at providing a selection of contributions on the details of executive functioning in dual-task and task switching situations. The contributions specify these executive functions by focusing on (1) fractionating assumed mechanisms into constituent subcomponents, (2) their variations by age or in clinical subpopulations, and/ or (3) their plasticity as a response to practice and training
UR  - https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/4872/multitasking-executive-functioning-in-dual-task-and-task-switching-situations
UR  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/54088
ER  -