APS
30th APS Annual Convention · 2018
On the Rational Boundedness of Cognitive Control
- Sebastian Musslick
Princeton University - Kayhan Öczimder
MathWorks - Biswadip Dey
Princeton University - Andrew Saxe
Harvard University - Anne Mennen
Princeton University - Daniel Reichman
UC Berkeley - Giovanni Petri
ISI Foundation - Theodore Willke
Intel Corporation - Jonathan Cohen
Princeton University
Abstract
One of the most characteristic features of human cognition is our inability to execute multiple control-demanding tasks simultaneously. Our work suggests that multitasking limitations may arise from a fundamental tradeoff between the use of shared task representation for learning efficiency and the benefits of separate task representation for multitasking performance.
Cognitive Processes
