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

• Main Author: Mike Wendt (auth)
• Other Authors: Tilo Strobach (auth), Markus Janczyk (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2018
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Psychology; cognitive plasticity; multitasking; task switching; dual tasking; cognitive flexibility; PRP
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

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...