Better not to deal with two tasks at the same time when stressed? Acute psychosocial stress reduces task shielding in dual-task performance

Inflexibly Focused under Stress: Acute Psychosocial Stress Increases Shielding of Action Goals at the Expense of Reduced Cognitive Flexibility with Increasing Time Lag to the Stressor

(2011) Franziska Plessow et al.   JOURNAL OF COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE

The stressed prefrontal cortex and goal-directed behaviour: acute psychosocial stress impairs the flexible implementation of task goals

(2011) Franziska Plessow et al.   EXPERIMENTAL BRAIN RESEARCH

Stress reduces use of negative feedback in a feedback-based learning task.

(2010) Antje Petzold et al.   BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE

Cold pressor stress impairs performance on working memory tasks requiring executive functions in healthy young men.

(2009) Daniela Schoofs et al.   BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE

Acute Psychological Stress Reduces Working Memory-Related Activity in the Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex

(2009) Shaozheng Qin et al.   BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY

On the optimality of serial and parallel processing in the psychological refractory period paradigm: Effects of the distribution of stimulus onset asynchronies

(2009) Jeff Miller et al.   COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY

Social cognition under stress: Differential effects of stress-induced cortisol elevations in healthy young men and women

(2009) Tom Smeets et al.   HORMONES AND BEHAVIOR

Stress signalling pathways that impair prefrontal cortex structure and function

(2009) Amy F. T. Arnsten   NATURE REVIEWS NEUROSCIENCE

Neural mechanisms of concurrent stimulus processing in dual tasks

(2009) Christine Stelzel et al.   NEUROIMAGE

Memory formation under stress: Quantity and quality

(2009) Lars Schwabe et al.   NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS

Psychosocial stress reversibly disrupts prefrontal processing and attentional control

(2009) C. Liston et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Neuroendocrine and psychometric evaluation of a placebo version of the ‘Trier Social Stress Test’

(2009) S. Het et al.   PSYCHONEUROENDOCRINOLOGY

Salivary alpha-amylase as a non-invasive biomarker for the sympathetic nervous system: Current state of research

(2009) U.M. Nater et al.   PSYCHONEUROENDOCRINOLOGY

Determinants of salivary α-amylase in humans and methodological considerations

(2009) Nicolas Rohleder et al.   PSYCHONEUROENDOCRINOLOGY

Serial or parallel processing in dual tasks: What is more effortful?

(2009) Carola Lehle et al.   PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY

Response activation in overlapping tasks and the response-selection bottleneck.

(2008) Torsten Schubert et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-HUMAN PERCEPTION AND PERFORMANCE

Go no-go performance under psychosocial stress: Beneficial effects of implementation intentions

(2008) Urte Scholz et al.   NEUROBIOLOGY OF LEARNING AND MEMORY

Glucose metabolic changes in the prefrontal cortex are associated with HPA axis response to a psychosocial stressor

(2008) Simone Kern et al.   PSYCHONEUROENDOCRINOLOGY