dual task performance

Dual-task and concurrent-task interference: the performance cost of doing a second task alongside driving (or vice versa) — degraded primary-task performance, multiple-resource competition, task trade-offs in controlled paradigms. The interference EFFECT of a concurrent task, distinct from how load is measured (workload_measurement) or felt (mental_demand).

Relevant standards

  • ISO 17488:2016 — Road vehicles — Transport information and control systems — Detection-response task (DRT) for assessing attentional effects of cognitive load in driving
  • ISO 26022:2010 — Road vehicles — Ergonomic aspects of transport information and control systems — Simulated lane change test to assess in-vehicle secondary task demand
  • ISO/TS 14198:2019 — Road vehicles — Ergonomic aspects of transport information and control systems — Calibration tasks for methods which assess driver demand due to the use of in-vehicle systems

201 paper(s) · ranked by relevance to this topic

  1. Attentional Limitations in Doing Two Tasks at the Same Time · 1992 · Pashler, Harold · archived
  2. Dual-task interference in simple tasks: Data and theory. · 1994 · Pashler, Harold · archived
  3. The Temporal Profile of Dual-task Interference in the Human Brain · 2023 · Hashemirad, Seyed-Reza et al. · indexed
  4. Redundancy, Modality, and Priority in Dual Task Interference · 2003 · Wickens, Christopher D. et al. · indexed
  5. Attentional Overload, stress, and simulate Driving Performance · 1996 · Matthews, Gerald et al. · indexed
  6. Searching working memory for the source of dual-task costs · 2011 · Hazeltine, Eliot et al. · archived
  7. Graded capacity-sharing in dual-task interference? · 1994 · Pashler, Harold · archived
  8. Interference between Visuospatial Dual Tasks and the Effects of Training · 2009 · Boles, David B. et al. · indexed
  9. The residual costs of multitasking: Causing trouble down the road · 2016 · Turrill, J et al. · indexed
  10. Interference between concurrent tasks of driving and telephoning. · 1969 · Brown, I D et al. · indexed
  11. Selective Attention with Auxiliary Automobile Displays · 1990 · Noy, Y. Ian · indexed
  12. Delays without Mistakes: Response Time and Error Distributions in Dual-Task · 2008 · Kamienkowski, Juan E. et al. · archived
  13. Central Interference in Driving · 2006 · Levy, Jonathan et al. · archived
  14. Multiple resources and performance prediction · 2002 · Wickens, Christopher D. · indexed
  15. Multiple Resource Time Sharing Models · 2004 · Wickens, Christopher D. · indexed
  16. Perceptual and central interference in dual-task performance · 2001 · Ruthruff, Eric et al. · indexed
  17. Dual-Task Performance and the Hick-Hyman Law of Choice Reaction Time · 1977 · Damos, Diane L. et al. · indexed
  18. The crosstalk hypothesis: Why language interferes with driving. · 2012 · Strayer, David L. et al. · indexed
  19. Task Switching and Multitask Performance · 2000 · Pashler, Harold · indexed
  20. Multitasking induced contextual blindness · 2025 · Cooper, JM et al. · archived
  21. EFFECTS OF TWO DIFFERENT MENTAL TASKS ON VISUAL SEARCH BEHAVIOUR WHILE DRIVING · 1999 · Recarte, Miguel A. et al. · indexed
  22. Dual-task interference and the cerebral hemispheres. · 1993 · Pashler, Harold et al. · archived
  23. Dramatic Reductions in Dual-Task Costs When Tasks Can Be Kept Separate · 2014 · Halvorson, Kimberly M. et al. · archived
  24. On working memory and a productivity illusion in distracted driving. · 2016 · Strayer, David L. et al. · archived
  25. Is dual-task slowing instruction dependent? · 2001 · Levy, Jonathan et al. · archived
  26. Multiple Resources and Mental Workload · 2008 · Wickens, Christopher D. · archived
  27. Hierarchical control and driving. · 2013 · Strayer, David L. · indexed
  28. Attention selection and task interference indriving: an action-oriented view · 2009 · Engström, Johan et al. · indexed
  29. Cognitive workload measurement and modeling under divided attention. · 2019 · Strayer, David L. et al. · archived
  30. Effects of Cell Phone Conversations on Younger and Older Drivers · 2003 · Strayer, David L. et al. · indexed
  31. Threaded cognition: An integrated theory of concurrent multitasking. · 2008 · Salvucci, Dario D. et al. · indexed
  32. Dual task interference on early perceptual processing · 2021 · Duncan, Justin et al. · archived
  33. Passenger and cell phone conversations in simulated driving. · 2008 · Strayer, David L. et al. · indexed
  34. Hierarchical Control and Driving · 2013 · Medeiros-Ward, Nathan · indexed
  35. Driving impairs talking · 2010 · Becic, Ensar et al. · archived
  36. Distracted Driving Due to Visual Working Memory Load · 2014 · Mordkoff, J. Toby et al. · archived
  37. The effect of cognitive tasks on predicting eventis in traffic · 2008 · Baumann, Michael R. et al. · indexed
  38. Cognitive control and meta-control in dual-task coordination · 2023 · Strobach, Tilo · archived
  39. Lane Keeping Under Cognitive Load · 2013 · He, Jibo et al. · indexed
  40. Cue the effects: Stimulus-action effect modality compatibility and dual-task costs. · 2020 · Schacherer, Jonathan et al. · indexed
  41. Resurrecting Driver Workload Metrics: A Multivariate Approach · 2015 · Auflick, Jack L. · indexed
  42. TASK-INDUCED FATIGUE EFFECTS ON SIMULATED DRIVING PERFORMANCE · 1998 · Desmond, Paula A. et al. · indexed
  43. Aging and Input Processing in Dual-Task Situations. · 2004 · Hein, Grit et al. · indexed
  44. Cognitive Load in Cross‐Modal Dual‐Task Processing · 2015 · Morrison, Natalie M. V. et al. · indexed
  45. Discrete task switching in overload: A meta-analyses and a model · 2015 · Wickens, Christopher D. et al. · archived
  46. Auditory Preemption versus Multiple Resources: Who Wins in Interruption Management? · 2005 · Wickens, Christopher D. et al. · indexed
  47. Control and interference in task switching—A review. · 2010 · Kiesel, Andrea et al. · archived
  48. Resource Training Using Alternating Tasks · 2010 · Boles, David B. et al. · indexed
  49. The effects of divided attention on information processing in manual tracking. · 1976 · Wickens, Christopher D. et al. · indexed
  50. Evidence for a multicomponent hierarchical representation of dual tasks · 2021 · Hirsch, Patricia et al. · archived
  51. Dissociation of Performance and Subjective Measures of Workload · 1988 · Yeh, Yei-Yu et al. · indexed
  52. Age-related effects on a novel dual-task Stroop paradigm · 2021 · Ward, Nathan et al. · archived
  53. Auditory-Visual Redundancy in Vehicle Control Interruptions · 2011 · Wickens, Christopher D. et al. · indexed
  54. Age-related differences and similarities in dual-task interference. · 1999 · Hartley, Alan A. et al. · indexed
  55. Multiple Resources and Mental Workload · 2008 · Wickens, Christopher D · indexed
  56. Working memory costs of task switching. · 2008 · Liefooghe, Baptist et al. · archived
  57. Dual Task Effects on Visual Attention Capacity in Normal Aging · 2018 · Künstler, Erika C. S. et al. · archived
  58. Factors modulating the effect of divided attention during retrieval of words · 2002 · Fernandes, Myra A. et al. · archived
  59. Dual-task costs in aging are predicted by formal education · 2016 · Vallesi, Antonino · archived
  60. Can practice eliminate the Psychological Refractory Period effect? · 1999 · Van Selst, Mark et al. · indexed
  61. THE EFFECTS OF LISTENING WHILE DRIVING IN OLDER AND YOUNGER ADULTS · 2024 · Bak, Katherine et al. · indexed
  62. Multitasking During Degraded Speech Recognition in School-Age Children · 2017 · Tina M. Grieco‐Calub et al. · indexed
  63. A Stochastic Delay Differential Equation Model of Multitasking While Driving · 2026 · Trommler, Daniel et al. · indexed
  64. Task switching: Interplay of reconfiguration and interference control. · 2010 · Vandierendonck, André et al. · indexed
  65. Load Theory of Selective Attention and Cognitive Control. · 2004 · Lavie, Nilli et al. · indexed
  66. Does Random Time Interval Generation Interfere with Working Memory Executive Functions? · 1998 · Andre Vandierendonck Gino De Vooght Koen · indexed
  67. Motor fatigue and cognitive task performance in humans · 2002 · Lorist, Monicque M. et al. · archived
  68. Bimanual interference associated with the selection of target locations. · 2003 · Diedrichsen, Joern et al. · archived
  69. What causes the bilingual disadvantage in verbal fluency? The dual-task analogy · 2010 · Sandoval, Tiffany C. et al. · indexed
  70. Rumination and impaired resource allocation in depression. · 2009 · Levens, Sara M. et al. · indexed
  71. Double Dissociations in Visual and Spatial Short-Term Memory. · 2004 · Klauer, Karl Christoph et al. · indexed
  72. Effects of divided attention at encoding and retrieval: Further data · 2018 · Craik, Fergus I. M. et al. · archived
  73. The Stroop Effect: Brain Potentials Localize the Source of Interference · 1981 · Duncan-Johnson, Connie C. et al. · indexed
  74. Cognitive and Linguistic Processing in the Bilingual Mind · 2010 · Bialystok, Ellen et al. · indexed
  75. Language of instruction affects language interference in the third language · 2021 · Tomoschuk, Brendan et al. · archived
  76. Effect of Language Dominance on Cognitive Processes in a Stroop Task · 1997 · Bahri, Toufik et al. · indexed
  77. Ankle Joint Kinematics in Expected and Unexpected Trip Responses with Dual-Tasking and Physical Fatigue · 2025 · Arachchige, Sachini N. K. Kodithuwakku et al. · indexed