CONCURRENT MULTITASKING: A DESIRABLE SKILL, A BAD HABIT, OR JUST AN ILLUSION?

• Authors: Köles Máté

Title variants

HU

A figyelem megosztása: kívánatos képesség, rossz szokás vagy csak illúzió?

• Languages of publication: HU

Abstracts

EN

In my paper I review the classic and the most recent psychological literature on concurrent multitasking. After a brief description of two fundamental paradigms, I outline the history and the current status of the most influential theories on multitasking (bottleneck views, capacity sharing theories and a few computational models). Toward the end of my paper I concentrate on the presumed effects of practice on multitasking performance.

Keywords

EN

multitasking; psychological refrakter period; bottleneck theory; capacity sharing theory; computational models

Discipline

• PSYCHOLOGY: PSYCHOLOGY

• Publisher: Hungarian Association for Psychology
• Journal: Magyar Pszichologiai Szemle (Hungarian Psychological Review)
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 65
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 635-649
• Document type: REVIEW

Contributors

author

Köles Máté