Experimental psychology has long shown that task switching imposes cognitive demands and increases error rates, yet its impact in high-stakes real-world settings ...

Task-switching, a core executive function essential for adapting to changing demands 1,2, exhibits a well-documented age-related decline. While older adults typically perform poorer than young adults ...

Our increasingly busy lives are often sustained, at least in theory, by multitasking—rapidly switching attention between tasks rather than doing them truly in parallel or completing them one at a time ...

We pride ourselves on doing more in less time, juggling emails, decisions, and deadlines as if productivity were a competitive sport. But what feels like efficiency is often just rapid task-switching, ...