Opposite effects of interruption frequency on performance in interrupted and uninterrupted multistep task.

Psychol Res · 2026 · PMC13018029 · PMID 41880034

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The effect of local interruption frequency on sequence errors approached significance, F (1, 85) = 3.49, p = .065, with a tendentially smaller rate of sequence errors in the local high frequency conditions with three interruptions per RUPHO task ( M = 6.3%, SE = 1.5) compared to the local low frequency condition with one interruption per task ( M = 10.3%, SE = 1.5).

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