Toward a richer understanding of human cognition: Unleashing the full potential of the concurrent information-processing paradigm

One of the most influential working hypotheses in psychology, to this day, is that human information processing in higher-order cognition (e.g., judgment and decision-making) is constrained by having to process objects serially, one at a time. However, a rather large body of research, accumulated over the past 50 years, has demonstrated that serial-processing models provide a poor descriptive account of human information processing. An alternate...