DFG Priority Program SPP 1772 on human multitasking

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SPP 1772
founding Summer 2015
Estimated end Summer 2021
coordination Andrea Kiesel (Freiburg), Iring Koch (Aachen), Herrmann Müller (Gießen), Edita Poljac (Freiburg), Markus Janczyk (Tübingen), Hanna Lindemann (Saarbrücken)
Website https://www.spp1772.uni-freiburg.de

The priority project 1772 on human multitasking started in summer 2015 and is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) . The aim is to bring together the previously independent research fields in the field of multitasking, in particular the disciplines of cognitive psychology and movement science, in order to create an integrative theoretical framework for explaining this fundamental aspect of human behavior. The project currently comprises 22 individual research projects at a total of 19 German universities.

Project description

Theoretical background

In modern life, people are often faced with situations that require multitasking. Such situations are usually associated with reduced performance, errors and an increased risk of accidents. So far, cognitive psychology and movement sciences have examined requirements and performance in multitasking independently of one another. This priority program brings previously independent research fields together in order to develop an integrative theoretical explanatory framework. Traditional cognitive psychological theories regard motor aspects of the action as “late” information processing processes that are conceptualized independently of “central” cognitive processing processes. However, this approach is oversimplified as motor processes are important for many types of skills and often influence the difficulty of the task. Despite the strong overlap of cognitive and motor control, the topic of "multitasking" was viewed fundamentally differently from the perspective of cognitive psychology and movement science. While cognitive psychology focused on structural and functional limitations of cognitive processes in multitasking, movement science emphasized the plasticity of processing and training options.

project goal

The interdisciplinary combination of cognitive psychology and movement sciences enables an integrative explanatory framework that brings together aspects of the structural, flexible and plastic consideration of multitasking. The priority program comprises three research areas: Firstly, a new integrative framework model is sought that links the structural perspective of unavoidable processing bottlenecks with the more flexible cognitive control perspective. Second, the metaphor of flexible processing resources is revived and integrated into concepts of structural, modality-specific bottlenecks and into concepts of more flexible cognitive control of task requirements, as well as their modulation through emotional and motivational states. Third, the plasticity of cognition and motor behavior in relation to the optimization of actions in multitasking through training is examined. Furthermore, it is expected that knowledge about cognitive plasticity will be obtained that can be used to optimize actions in complex environments that typically require multitasking. This priority program aims to develop new research perspectives for human multitasking by integrating knowledge from different perspectives and disciplines about fundamental aspects of human behavior.

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Individual evidence

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