Monno, Irina http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2543-7853
Aufschnaiter, Stefanie
Ehret, Sonja
Kiesel, Andrea
Poljac, Edita
Thomaschke, Roland
Funding for this research was provided by:
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (SPP 1772, TH 1554/3-1)
Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg im Breisgau
Article History
Received: 20 November 2020
Accepted: 24 August 2021
First Online: 16 November 2021
Declarations
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: Understanding the cognitive strategies that help us cope with multitasking situations is of great importance in our daily lives. One of such strategies is time-based task expectancy in task switching, which is the observation that a fixed waiting time used for a certain task becomes predictive for that type of task. In two experiments, we found that this time-based expectancy enables humans to faster recognize visual stimuli that signal the task type. This finding has also practical implications for the design of human-machine interfaces.
: All authors declare that there is no conflict of interest.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.