The role of effect monitoring for dual-task performance

• Applicant: Professor Dr. Wilfried Kunde
• Subject Area: General, Cognitive and Mathematical Psychology
• Term: from 2015 to 2023
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 274800990

Humans act to produce certain sensory consequences. To do so, we have to monitor the effects we produce by our motor behavior. With temporally overlapping tasks, such monitoring often has to take place while another action has to be specified. Based on our previous project work we aim to further scrutinize the nature of limitations induced by monitoring of action effects in one task for processing another task. Besides the impact of temporary bindings between response features and effects features on concurrent task processing, we aim to scrutinize the mutual relationship between effect monitoring and error monitoring. Moreover, we will study context factors that might facilitate concurrent monitoring of action effects in one task and processing of another task. The studies will reveal a barely considered "bottleneck" in dual tasking including ways to attenuate its impact.

• DFG Programme: Priority Programmes
• Subproject of: SPP 1772: Human performance under multiple cognitive task requirements: From basic mechanisms to optimized task scheduling
• Co-Investigator: Professor Dr. Markus Janczyk