The bivalency effect in task switching: general and enduring

Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 201-210

  Meier, Beat ^a   Rey Mermet, Alodie ^a   Woodward, Todd S ^b,c   Graf, Peter ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b British Columbia Mental Health and Addictions Services ^*  (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bivalency effect; Bivalent stimuli; Task switching; Univalent stimuli

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COLOR VISION; DECISION MAKING; ENDURANCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROBLEM SOLVING; REACTION TIME; TIME;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; COLOR PERCEPTION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; GENERALIZATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PHYSICAL ENDURANCE; PROBLEM SOLVING; REACTION TIME; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 70349627377     PISSN: 11961961     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0014311     Document Type: Article

References (24)

1. Allport, A., & Wylie, G. (1999). Task-switching: Positive and negative priming of task-set. In G. W. Humphreys, J. Duncan, & A. M. Treisman (Eds.), Attention, space and action: Studies in cognitive neuroscience (pp. 273-296). Oxford, England: Oxford University Press.
2. Allport, A., & Wylie, G. (2000). Task-switching, stimulus-response bindings, and negative priming. In S. Monsell & J. S. Driver (Eds.), Control of cognitive processes: Attention and performance xviii (pp. 35-70). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
3. Altmann, E. M., & Gray, W. D. (2008). An integrated model of cognitive control in task switching. Psychological Bulletin, 115, 602-639.
4. De Jong, R. (2000). An intention-activation account of residual switch costs. In S. Monsell & J. Driver (Eds.), Control of cognitive processes: Attention and performance xviii (pp. 357-376). Cambridge, MA: MJT Press.
5. Fagot, C. (1994). Chronometrie investigations of task switching. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of California, San Diego.
6. Gilbert, S. J., & Shallice, T. (2002). Task switching: A PDP model. Cognitive Psychology, 44, 297-337.
7. Jersild, A. T. (1927). Mental set and shift. Archives of Psychology, 89, 5-82
8. Kray, J., & Lindenberger, U. (2000). Adult age differences in task switching. Psychology and Aging, 15, 126-147. (Pubitemid 30756987)
9. Los, S. A. (1999). Identifying stimuli of different perceptual categories in mixed blocks of trials: Evidence for cost in switching between computational processes. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 25, 3-23.
10. Lupker, S. J., Brown, P., & Colombo, L. (1997). Strategic control in a naming task: Changing routes or changing deadlines? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 23, 570-590.
11. Masson, M. E. J., Bub, D. N., & Ishigami, Y. (2007). Task-set persistence modulates word reading following resolution of picture-word interference. Memory & Cognition, 35, 2012-2018.
12. Masson, M. E. J., Bub, D. N., Woodward, T. S., & Chan, J. C. K. (2003). Modulation of word-reading processes in task switching. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 132, 400-418.
13. Mayr, U. (2001). Age differences in the selection of mental sets: The role of inhibition, stimulus ambiguity, and response-set overlap. Psychology and Aging, 16, 96-109.
14. Mayr, U., & Kliegl, R. (2000). Task-set switching and long-term memory retrieval. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 130, 764-778.
15. Meiran, N. (2000). Modeling cognitive control in task-switching. Psychological Research, 63, 234-249.
16. Meiran, N., Kessler, Y., & Adi-Japha, E. (2008). Control by action representation and input selection (CARIS): A theoretical framework for task switching. Psychological Research, 72, 473-500.
17. Monsell, S., Patterson, K. E., Graham, A., Hughes, C. H., & Milroy, R. (1992). Lexical and sublexical translation from spelling to sound: Strategic anticipation of lexical status. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 18, 452-467.
18. Monsell, S., Yeung, N., & Azuma, R. (2000). Reconfiguration of task-set: Is it easier to switch to the weaker task? Psychological Research, 63, 250-264.
19. Rogers, R. D., & Monsell, S. (1995). Costs of a predictable switch between simple cognitive tasks. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 124, 207-231.
20. Rubin, O., & Meiran, N. (2005). On the origins of the task-mixing cost in the cuing task-switching paradigm. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 31, 1477-1491. (Pubitemid 43083741)
21. Schumacher, E. H., Seymour, T. L., Glass, J. M., Fencsik, D. E., Lauber, E. J., Kieras, D. E., et al. (2001). Virtually perfect time sharing in dual-task performance: Uncorking the central cognitive bottleneck. Psychological Science, 12, 101-108.
22. Waszak, F., Hommel, B., & Allport, A. (2003). Task-switching and long-term priming: Role of episodic stimulus-task bindings in task-shift costs. Cognitive Psychology, 46, 361-413. (Pubitemid 36880986)
23. Woodward, T. S., Meier, B., Tipper, C., & Graf, P. (2003). Bivalency is costly: Bivalent stimuli elicit cautious responding. Experimental Psychology, 50, 233-238. (Pubitemid 38355413)
24. Woodward, T. S., Metzak, P. B., Meier, B., & Holroyd, C. B. (2008). Anterior cingulate cortex signals the requirement to break inertia when switching tasks: A study of the bivalency effect. Neuroimage, 40, 1311-1318.