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Dr. Maximilian Stefani

Attention is scarce. So is electricity.

I am a cognitive and experimental psychologist. For ten years I have studied how people divide attention between tasks that all want it at once, and what goes wrong when a third task turns up. From October 2026 I am also Lead Analyst for Commercial Analytics & Decision Intelligence at meistro Energie GmbH, working on energy systems where supply arrives when the weather allows and demand has to be met anyway.

The day-to-day is the same in both: design a study that can answer the question it asks, run it, and work through the numbers.

Everything, in order

Every publication, talk and note on this site, placed in the year it appeared. Point at a square to read its title, or follow it to the entry. The vertical line marks today.

PublicationsTalksNotes20192020202120222023202420252026Flight Simulation Task Performance Predicts Military Multitasking Better than Laboratory Measures — Jan 2024Multi-Attribute Task Battery Performance Predicts Military Multitasking Better than Multitasking Costs — Jan 2024Eye-Tracking Analysis of Attentional Disengagement in Phobic and Non-Phobic Individuals — Nov 2024Multi-Tasking Costs in Triple-Task Performance despite Dual-Task Preparation — Jan 2025Differential Effects of Task Difficulty on Target-Type Switching in Haptic Foraging: Evidence for Increased Switching with Extreme Task Demands — Apr 2025Military Experience Predicts Military Multitasking Better than Laboratory Measures in Officer Cadets — Jun 2025Equal Quality for Online and Lab Data: A Direct Comparison from Two Dual-Task Paradigms — Jan 2022Expanding Dual-Task Research by a Triple-Task — Jan 2022Delayed Disengagement from Irrelevant Fixation Items: Is It Generally Functional? — Feb 2020Towards Interactive Search: Investigating Visual Search in a Novel Real-World Paradigm — Dec 2020Relative Contributions of Oculomotor Capture and Disengagement to Distractor-Related Dwell Times in Visual Search — Oct 2023How Does Statistical Learning Shape Attentional Tuning to Depth in 3D Visual Search? — May 2025A Deeper Dive into Multitasking Dynamics — Nov 2025Multitasking Costs in Triple-Task Performance Despite Dual-Task Training — Mar 2024Attention Bias for Anxiety-Linked Stimuli — Mar 2023Increasing Complexity: From Single-Tasks to Triple-Tasks — Mar 2021Reading into energy market design — Aug 2026Extending the triple-task work to haptic search — Aug 2026Hautsprecher: a vibrotactile skin speaker — Aug 2026LitMonitor: an AI weekly literature monitor — Aug 2026Rebuilding this site — Aug 2026Reading data into R — what to watch out for — Apr 2019todayFlight Simulation Task Performance Predicts Military Mult…Multi-Attribute Task Battery Performance Predicts Militar…Eye-Tracking Analysis of Attentional Disengagement in Pho…Multi-Tasking Costs in Triple-Task Performance despite Du…Differential Effects of Task Difficulty on Target-Type Sw…Military Experience Predicts Military Multitasking Better…Equal Quality for Online and Lab Data: A Direct Compariso…Expanding Dual-Task Research by a Triple-TaskDelayed Disengagement from Irrelevant Fixation Items: Is…Towards Interactive Search: Investigating Visual Search i…Relative Contributions of Oculomotor Capture and Disengag…How Does Statistical Learning Shape Attentional Tuning to…A Deeper Dive into Multitasking DynamicsMultitasking Costs in Triple-Task Performance Despite Dua…Attention Bias for Anxiety-Linked StimuliIncreasing Complexity: From Single-Tasks to Triple-TasksReading into energy market designExtending the triple-task work to haptic searchHautsprecher: a vibrotactile skin speakerLitMonitor: an AI weekly literature monitorRebuilding this siteReading data into R — what to watch out for
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