Succumbing to bottom-up biases on task choice predicts increased switch costs in the voluntary task switching paradigm

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 2, Issue FEB, 2011, Pages

  Orr, Joseph M ^a   Weissman, Daniel H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Bottom up processing; Decision making; Task switching; Top down control

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863778883     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00031     Document Type: Article

References (36)

1. Allport, A., Styles, E. A., and Hsieh, S. (1994). " Shifting intentional set: exploring the dynamic control of tasks," in Control of Cognitive Processes: Attention and Performance, Vol. XV, eds C. Umilta and M. Moscovitch (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press), 421-452.
2. Arrington, C. M. (2008). The effect of stimulus availability on task choice in voluntary task switching. Mem. Cogn. 36, 991-997.
3. Arrington, C. M., and Logan, G. D. (2004). The cost of a voluntary task switch. Psychol. Sci. 15, 610-615.
4. Arrington, C. M., and Logan, G. D. (2005). Voluntary task switching: chasing the elusive homunculus. J. Exp. Psychol. Learn. Mem. Cogn. 31, 683-702.
5. Arrington, C. M., Weaver, S. M., and Pauker, R. L. (2010). Stimulus-based priming of task choice during voluntary task switching. J. Exp. Psychol. Learn. Mem. Cogn. 36, 1060-1067.
6. Arrington, C. M., and Yates, M. M. (2009). The role of attentional networks in voluntary task switching. Psychon. Bull. Rev. 16, 660-665.
7. Botvinick, M. M. (2007). Conflict monitoring and decision making: reconciling two perspectives on anterior cingulate function. Cogn. Affect. Behav. Neurosci. 7, 356.
8. Braverman, A., and Meiran, N. (2010). Task conflict effect in task switching. Psychol. Res. 74, 568-578.
9. Corbetta, M., Patel, G., and Shulman, G. L. (2008). The reorienting system of the human brain: from environment to theory of mind. Neuron 58, 306.
10. Dehaene, S., Naccache, L., Le Clec H, G., Koechlin, E., Mueller, M., Dehaene-Lambertz, G., van de Moortele, P-F., and Le Bihan, D. (1998). Imaging unconscious semantic priming. Nature 395, 597-600.
11. De Jong, R. (2000). " An intention-activation account of residual switch costs," inControl of Cognitive Processes: Attention and Performance, Vol. XVIII, eds S. Monsell and J. Driver (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press), 357-376.
12. Demanet, J., Liefooghe, B., Verbruggen, F., and Vandierendonck, A. (2010). Voluntary task switching under load: contribution of top-down and bottom-up factors in goal-directed behavior. Psychon. Bull. Rev. 17, 387-393.
13. Egner, T., and Hirsch, J. (2005). Cognitive control mechanisms resolve conflict through cortical amplification of task-relevant information. Nat. Neurosci. 8, 1784-1790.
14. Fagot, C. (1994). Chronometric Investigations of Task Switching. Unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University of California, San Diego.
15. Gazzaley, A., Cooney, J. W., Rissman, J., and D'Esposito, M. (2005). Top-down suppression deficit underlies working memory impairment in normal aging. Nat. Neurosci. 8, 1298-1300.
16. Gray, J. R. (2001). Emotional modulation of cognitive control: approach-withdrawal states double-dissociate spatial from verbal two-back task performance. J. Exp. Psychol. Gen. 130, 436.
17. Henik, A., and Tzelgov, J. (1982). Is three greater than five: the relation between physical and semantic size in comparison tasks. Mem. Cogn. 10, 389-395.
18. Hommel, B. (1998). Event files: evidence for automatic integration of stimulusresponse episodes. Vis. Cogn. 5, 183-216.
19. Horoufchin, H., Philipp, A. M., and Koch, I. (2010). The dissipating task-repetition benefit in cued task switching: task-set decay or temporal distinctiveness? J. Exp. Psychol. Hum. Percept. Perform. doi: 10.1037/ a0020557. [Epub ahead of print].
20. Hübner, M., Kluwe, R. H., Luna-Rodriguez, A., and Peters, A. (2004). Task preparation and stimulus-evoked competition. Acta Psychol. 115, 211-234.
21. Kane, M. J., and Engle, R. W. (2003). Working-memory capacity and the control of attention: the contributions of goal neglect, response competition, and task set to Stroop interference. J. Exp. Psychol. Gen. 132, 47-70.
22. Kiesel, A., Steinhauser, M., Wendt, M., Falkenstein, M., Jost, K., Philipp, A. M., and Koch, I. (2010). Control and interference in task switching a review. Psychol. Bull. 136, 849-874.
23. Koch, I. (2001). Automatic and intentional activation of task sets. J. Exp. Psychol. Learn. Mem. Cogn. 27, 1474-1486.
24. Kool, W., McGuire, J. T., Rosen, Z. B., and Botvinick, M. M. (2010). Decision making and the avoidance of cognitive demand. J. Exp. Psychol. Gen. 139, 665-682.
25. Lavie, N. (2004). Load theory of selective attention and cognitive control. J. Exp. Psychol. Gen. 133, 339.
26. Lien, M.-C., and Ruthruff, E. (2008). Inhibition of task set: converging evidence from task choice in the voluntary task-switching paradigm. Psychon. Bull. Rev. 15, 1111-1116.
27. Logan, G. D., and Gordon, R. D. (2001). Executive control of visual attention in dual-task situations. Psychol. Rev. 108, 393-434.
28. MacLeod, C. M. (1991). Half a century of research on the Stroop effect: an integrative review. Psychol. Bull. 109, 163-203.
29. Mayr, U., and Bell, T. (2006). On how to be unpredictable: evidence from the voluntary task-switching paradigm. Psychol. Sci. 17, 774-780.
30. Meiran, N. (1996). Reconfiguration of processing mode prior to task performance. J. Exp. Psychol. Learn. Mem. Cogn. 22, 1423-1442.
31. Monsell, S., Sumner, P., and Waters, H. (2003). Task-set reconfiguration with predictable and unpredictable task switches. Mem. Cogn. 31, 327-342.
32. Posner, M. I., Snyder, C. R., and Davidson, B. J. (1980). Attention and thedetection of signals. J. Exp. Psychol. Gen. 109, 160-174.
33. Rogers, R. D., and Monsell, S. (1995). Costs of a predictable switch between simple cognitive tasks. J. Exp. Psychol. Gen. 124, 207-231.
34. Rubinstein, J. S., Meyer, D. E., and Evans, J. E. (2001). Executive control of cognitive processes in task switching. J. Exp. Psychol. Hum. Percept. Perform. 27, 763-797.
35. Verbruggen, F., and Logan, G. D. (2008). Automatic and controlled response inhibition: associative learning in the go/no-go and stop-signal paradigms. J. Exp. Psychol. Gen. 137, 649-672.
36. Yeung, N. (2010). Bottom-up influences on voluntary task switching: the elusive homunculus escapes. J. Exp. Psychol. Learn. Mem. Cogn. 36, 348.