Critical-path scheduling of mental processes in a dual task.
Scheduling theory is used to extend the additive factors method of analyzing reaction times to tasks involving concurrent processing. Data indicate that mental processes in a double-stimulation experiment by Becker are executed in a critical-path network. A relationship predicted for the timing of the responses of the task is shown to hold.
D006801:Humans; D008433:Mathematics; D008606:Mental Processes; D008960:Models, Psychological