Publications

The complete and always up-to-date list is kept by the University of Groningen.

Also available: Google Scholar and ORCID.

Book

Salvucci, D. D., & Taatgen, N. A. (2011). The Multitasking Mind. Oxford University Press.

An accessible account of how people multitask and why some combinations of tasks work while others fail, based on the theory of threaded cognition. See the multitasking page.

Where to start

A few papers that give a good first impression of each line of work.

Transfer of skills

Taatgen, N. A. (2013). The nature and transfer of cognitive skills. Psychological Review, 120(3), 439–471.

Multitasking

Salvucci, D. D., & Taatgen, N. A. (2008). Threaded cognition: An integrated theory of concurrent multitasking. Psychological Review, 115(1), 101–130.

Borst, J. P., Taatgen, N. A., & van Rijn, H. (2010). The problem state: A cognitive bottleneck in multitasking. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 36(2), 363–382.

Time perception

Taatgen, N. A., van Rijn, H., & Anderson, J. (2007). An integrated theory of prospective time interval estimation: The role of cognition, attention, and learning. Psychological Review, 114(3), 577–598.

Skill acquisition and instructions

Taatgen, N. A., Huss, D., Dickison, D., & Anderson, J. R. (2008). The acquisition of robust and flexible cognitive skills. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 137(3), 548–565.

Taatgen, N. A., & Anderson, J. R. (2002). Why do children learn to say "broke"? A model of learning the past tense without feedback. Cognition, 86(2), 123–155.