title: Regarding time-sharing with convergent operations.
abstract: This study contrasts the structural bottleneck and the resource view of attentional limits in time-sharing performance. The research incorporated features of the psychological refractory period (PRP) and the relative priority paradigm designed to maximize joint performance. A main distinction between the two attention views was their prediction on the extent that graded performance tradeoff was possible with graded priority changes. Detailed analysis of the performance and time-sharing strategies called into question the conclusions based exclusively on the PRP paradigm.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, 335 Fawcett, Wright State University, 3640 Col Glenn Highway, Dayton, OH 45435, USA. pamela.tsang@wright.edu
authors.forename: Pamela S
authors.initials: PS
authors.lastname: Tsang
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D001288:Attention / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008570:Memory, Short-Term / Q000502:physiology; D011597:Psychomotor Performance / Q000502:physiology*; D012033:Refractory Period, Psychological / Q000502:physiology; D013647:Task Performance and Analysis; D013997:Time Factors