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Tilo Strobach¹

¹Department of Psychology, Medical School Hamburg, Am Kaiserkai 1, 20457, Hamburg, Germany. tilo.strobach@medicalschool-hamburg.de.

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Dual-task performance declines when tasks overlap, often attributed to capacity limits. This study introduces active dual-task coordination and meta-cognitive adjustment processes to explain these performance costs.

Keywords:

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Neuroscience

Background:

Dual-task performance is typically impaired compared to single-task performance.
Existing theories often attribute dual-task costs to capacity limitations in component tasks.

Purpose of the Study:

To propose active dual-task coordination processes for scheduling capacity-limited tasks.
To review evidence for dual-task coordination and coordination adjustment processes.
To explore the separability of coordination and adjustment processes.

Main Methods:

Review of existing evidence on dual-task coordination.
Examination of findings related to meta-cognitive control and coordination adjustment.
Elaboration on preliminary findings regarding process separability.

Main Results:

Evidence supports the existence of active dual-task coordination processes.
Findings suggest a meta-cognitive control level responsible for coordination adjustment.
Preliminary data indicate separability between coordination and adjustment processes.

Conclusions:

Dual-task performance impairments can be explained by active coordination and meta-cognitive adjustment.
Coordination adjustment represents a distinct meta-cognitive control level.
The separability of these processes is a key assumption for the dual-task coordination adjustment framework.