Treffer: On the optimality of serial and parallel processing in the psychological refractory period paradigm : Effects of the distribution of stimulus onset asynchronies

Title:
On the optimality of serial and parallel processing in the psychological refractory period paradigm : Effects of the distribution of stimulus onset asynchronies
Authors:
MILLER, Jeff, ULRICH, Rolf, ROLKE, Bettina
Source:
Cognitive psychology (Print). 58(3):273-310
Publisher Information:
Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2009.
Publication Year:
2009
Physical Description:
print, 2 p.1/4
Original Material:
INIST-CNRS
Subject Terms:
Cognition, Psychology, psychopathology, psychiatry, Psychologie, psychopathologie, psychiatrie, Sciences biologiques et medicales, Biological and medical sciences, Sciences biologiques fondamentales et appliquees. Psychologie, Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology, Psychologie. Psychophysiologie, Psychology. Psychophysiology, Niveaux d'activité. Psychomotricité, Activity levels. Psychomotricity, Temps de réaction, Reaction time, Psychologie. Psychanalyse. Psychiatrie, Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry, Cognition, Cognición, Perception, Percepción, Asynchronie installation stimulus, Stimulus onset asynchrony, Asincronia installazione stimolo, Attention divisée, Divided attention, Atención dividida, Etude expérimentale, Experimental study, Estudio experimental, Homme, Human, Hombre, Performance, Rendimiento, Période réfractaire psychologique, Psychological refractory period, Período refract psicológico, Temps réaction, Reaction time, Tiempo reacción, Traitement parallèle, Parallel processing, Tratamiento paralelo, Traitement sériel, Serial processing, Procesamiento serial, Tâche concurrente, Concurrent task, Tarea concurrente, Dual-task performance, Optimization, Serial and parallel processing
Document Type:
Fachzeitschrift Article
File Description:
text
Language:
English
Author Affiliations:
Department of Psychology, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
Abteilung für Allgemeine und Biologische Psychologie, Psychologisches Institut, Universität Tübingen, Friedrichstr. 21, 72072 Tübingen, Germany
ISSN:
0010-0285
Access URL:
http://pascal-francis.inist.fr/vibad/index.php?action=search&terms=21411117
Rights:
Copyright 2009 INIST-CNRS
CC BY 4.0
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Notes:
Psychology. Ethology

FRANCIS
Accession Number:
edscal.21411117
Database:
PASCAL Archive

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Within the context of the psychological refractory period (PRP) paradigm, we developed a general theoretical framework for deciding when it is more efficient to process two tasks in serial and when it is more efficient to process them in parallel. This analysis suggests that a serial mode is more efficient than a parallel mode under a wide variety of conditions and thereby suggests that ubiquitous evidence of serial processing in PRP tasks could result from performance optimization rather than from a structural bottleneck. The analysis further suggests that the experimenter-selected distribution of stimulus onset asynchronies (SOAs) influences the relative efficiency of the serial and parallel modes, with a preponderance of short SOAs favoring a parallel mode. Experiments varying the distribution of SOAs were conducted, and the results suggest that there is a shift from a more serial mode to a more parallel mode as the likelihood of short SOAs increases.