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 …

Work is frequently interrupted. What is known about how interruptions affect productivity?
This important question has been studied using a variety of research methods, from …

Assessment of expertise development during training program primarily consists of
evaluating interactions between task characteristics, performance, and mental load. Such a …

Performance decrements in multitasking have been explained by limitations in cognitive
capacity, either modelled as static structural bottlenecks or as the scarcity of overall cognitive …

Objective. When multitasking, we must dynamically reorient our attention between different
tasks. Attention reorienting is thought to arise through interactions of physiological arousal …

Although e-mail interfaces have not changed much in the past decade, how we manage our
inbox has changed a lot, as a result of the growing number of messages we receive (The …

With the constantly increasing popularity of human multitasking, it is crucial to know why
people engage in simultaneous task performance or switch between unfinished tasks. In the …

This study focuses on an emerging media multitasking phenomenon called second
screening or dual screening. Employing two-wave panel-data from 19 countries, we test …

Mobile devices enable users to access information ubiquitously, including in the online
learning scenario. This though requires users to multitask and divide their attention between …

We investigate how the rewards of individual tasks dictate a priori how easy it is to interleave
two discrete tasks efficiently, and whether people then interleave efficiently. Previous …