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Citation

Han SW, Marois R. Atten. Percept. Psychophys. 2013; 75(7): 1395-1405.

Affiliation

Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt Vision Research Center, and Center for Integrative and Cognitive Neurosciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA, suk.w.han@vanderbilt.edu.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2013, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

10.3758/s13414-013-0513-2

PMID

23864266

Abstract

Although it is generally recognized that the concurrent performance of two tasks incurs costs, the sources of these dual-task costs remain controversial. The serial bottleneck model suggests that serial postponement of task performance in dual-task conditions results from a central stage of response selection that can only process one task at a time. Cognitive-control models, by contrast, propose that multiple response selections can proceed in parallel, but that serial processing of task performance is predominantly adopted because its processing efficiency is higher than that of parallel processing. In the present study, we empirically tested this proposition by examining whether parallel processing would occur when it was more efficient and financially rewarded. The results indicated that even when parallel processing was more efficient and was incentivized by financial reward, participants still failed to process tasks in parallel. We conclude that central information processing is limited by a serial bottleneck.


Language: en

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