Multitasking: Executive Functioning in Dual-Task and Task Switching Situations

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...

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Main Author: Mike Wendt (auth)
Other Authors: Tilo Strobach (auth), Markus Janczyk (auth)
Format: Book Chapter
Published: Frontiers Media SA 2018
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