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Switching between tasks of unequal familiarity: the role of stimulus-attribute and response-set selection.
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It has been reported that it is harder to switch to a strong, well-practiced task from a weaker, less-practiced task than vice versa. Three experiments replicated this surprising asymmetry and investigated how it is affected by a reduction in ... (Full abstract text below) Published 2003Apr
in Journal: J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform
(Language : eng)
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2003 Apr;29(2):455-69
Switching between tasks of unequal familiarity: the role of stimulus-attribute and response-set selection.
Yeung N, Monsell S
Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge, England. nyeung@princeton.edu
It has been reported that it is harder to switch to a strong, well-practiced task from a weaker, less-practiced task than vice versa. Three experiments replicated this surprising asymmetry and investigated how it is affected by a reduction in interference between tasks. Experiment 1 progressively delayed the onset of the stimulus attribute associated with the stronger task. Experiments 2 and 3 separated the response sets of the tasks. Both manipulations reduced, without eliminating, interference of the stronger with the weaker task but reversed the asymmetry of switch costs, resulting in a larger cost of switching to the weaker task. The results are interpreted in terms of a model of the interactions between control input, task strength, and task priming.
PMID : 12760628 [PubMed - Indexed for MEDLINE]
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| First Name | LastName | Initials |
| Nick | Yeung | N |
| Stephen | Monsell | S |
Affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge, England. nyeung@princeton.edu
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