Multitasking versus multiplexing: Toward a normative account of limitations in the simultaneous execution of control-demanding behaviors

Why is it that behaviors that rely on control, so striking in their diversity and flexibility, are also subject to such striking limitations? Typically, people cannot engage in more than a few-and usually only a single-control-demanding task at a time. This limitation was a defining element in the e...

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Main Authors: Schwemmer, M. (Author), Feng, S. F. (Author), Cohen, J. D. (Author), Gershman, Samuel J (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Springer US, 2016-12-27T15:00:47Z.
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