Planning and task management in older adults: Cooking breakfast

From: Memory & Cognition | Date: September 1, 2006| Author: Bialystok, Ellen; Craik, Fergus I M | Copyright information

The article describes a simulated "cooking breakfast" task in which participants must remember to start and stop cooking five foods so that all the foods are "ready" at the same time. In between starting and stopping operations, the participants also carried out a "table-setting" task as a filler activity. The breakfast task yields various measures of multitasking and executive control. Groups of younger and older adults performed the task; half of the participants in each group were bilingua...

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