The role of executive control in task switching

Cognition and Neuropsychology: International Perspectives on Psychological Science (Volume 1)

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 35-47

  Vandierendonck, André ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866387133     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: None     Document Type: Chapter

References (39)

1. Allport, D. A., Styles, E. A., & Hsieh, S. (1994). Shifting attentional set: Exploring the dynamic control of tasks. In C. Umiltà & M. Moscovitch (Eds.), Attention and Performance XV: Conscious and nonconscious information processing (pp. 421-452). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
2. Altmann, E. M., & Gray, W D. (2002). Forgetting to remember: The functional relationship of decay and interference. Psychological Science, 13, 27-33.
3. Baddeley, A. (1986). Working memory. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
4. Baddeley, A. (1996). Exploring the central executive. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 49A, 5-28.
5. Botvinick, M., Braver, T. S., Barch, D. M., Carter, C. S., & Cohen, J. D. (2001). Conflict monitoring and cognitive control. Psychological Review, 108, 624-652.
6. Brown, J. W, Reynolds, J. R., & Braver, T S. (2007). A computational model of fractionated conflict-control mechanisms in task-switching. Cognitive Psychology, 55, 37-85.
7. Brown, S., Lehmann, C., & Poboka, D. (2006). A critical test of the failure-to-engage theory of task switching. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 13, 152-159.
8. Cherkasova, M. V., Manoach, D. S., Intriligator, J. M., & Barton, J. J. S. (2002). Antisaccades and task-switching: Interactions in controlled processing. Experimental Brain Research, 144, 528-537.
9. De Jong, R. (2000). An intention-activation account of residual switch costs. In S. Monsell & J. Driver (Eds.), Attention and Performance XVIII: Control of cognitive processes (pp. 357-376). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
10. Goschke, T. (2000). Intentional reconfiguration and involuntary persistence in task set switching. In S. Monsell & J. S. Driver (Eds.), Attention and Performance XVIII: Control of cognitive processes (pp. 331-355). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
11. Kleinsorge, T., & Heuer, H. (1999). Hierarchical switching in a multi-dimensional task space. Psychological Research, 62, 300-312.
12. Lien, M. C., & Ruthruff, E. (2004). Task switching in a hierarchical task structure: Evidence for the fragility of the task repetition benefit. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 30, 697-713.
13. Logan, G. D. (2004). Working memory, task switching, and executive control in the task span procedure. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 133, 218-236.
14. Logan, G. D., & Cowan, W (1984). On the ability to inhibit thought and action: A theory of an act of control. Psychological Review, 91, 295-327.
15. Mayr, U., & Keele, S. W. (2000). Changing internal constraints on action: The role of backward inhibition. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 129, 4-26.
16. Mayr, U., & Kliegl, R. (2000). Task-set switching and long-term memory retrieval. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 26, 1124-1140.
17. Meuter, R. F. I., & Allport, A. (1999). Bilingual language switching in naming: Asymmetrical costs of language selection. Journal of Memory and Language, 40, 25-40.
18. Miyake, A., Friedman, N. P., Emerson, M. J., Witzki, A. H., Howerter, A., & Wager, T. D. (2000). The unity and diversity of executive functions and their contributions to complex "frontal lobe" tasks: A latent variable analysis. Cognitive Psychology, 41, 49-100.
19. Monsell, S., & Mizon, G. A. (2006). Can the task-cuing paradigm measure an endogenous task-set reconfiguration process? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 32, 493-516.
20. Navon, D. (1977). Forest before trees: Precedence of global features in visualperception. Cognitive Psychology, 9, 353-383.
21. Pashler, H. (1984). Processing stages in overlapping tasks: Evidence for a central bottleneck. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 10, 358-377.
22. Pashler, H., & Baylis, G. (1991). Procedural learning: 1. Locus of practice effects in speeded choice tasks. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 17, 20-32.
23. Rogers, R. D., & Monsell, S. (1995). Costs of a predictable switch between simple cognitive tasks. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 124, 207-231.
24. Rubinstein, J. S., Meyer, D. E., & Evans, J. E. (2001). Executive control of cognitive processes in task switching. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 27, 763-797.
25. Schneider, D. W, & Logan, G. D. (2006). Hierarchical control of cognitive processes: Switching tasks in sequences. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 135, 623-640.
26. Schuch, S., & Koch, I. (2003). The role of response selection for inhibition of task sets in task shifting. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 29, 92-105.
27. Spector, A., & Biederman, I. (1976). Mental set and mental shift revisited. Journal of Psychology, 89, 669-679.
28. Stoet, G., & Hommel, B. (1999). Action planning and the temporal binding of response codes. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 25, 1625-1640.
29. Szmalec, A., Demanet, J., Vandierendonck, A., & Verbruggen, F. (2009). Investigating the role of conflict resolution in memory updating by means of the one-back choice RT task. Psychological Research, 73, 390-406.
30. Vandierendonck, A., Christiaens, E., & Liefooghe, B. (2008). On the representation of task information in task switching: Evidence from task and dimension switching. Memory & Cognition, 36, 1248-1261.
31. Vandierendonck, A., Szmalec, A., Deschuyteneer, M., & Depoorter, A. (2007). Towards a multicomponential view of executive control. The case of response selection. In N. Osaka & R. Logie (Eds.), Working memory: Behavioural and neural correlates (pp. 247-259). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
32. Verbruggen, F., Liefooghe, B., Szmalec, A., & Vandierendonck, A. (2005). Inhibiting when switching: Does it matter? Experimental Psychology, 52, 125-130.
33. Verbruggen, F., Liefooghe, B., & Vandierendonck, A. (2006). Selective stopping in task switching: The role of response selection and response execution. Experimental Psychology, 53, 48-57.
34. Verbruggen, F., Liefooghe, B., Vandierendonck, A., & Demanet, J. (2007). Short cue presentations encourage advance task preparation: A recipe to diminish the residual switch cost. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 33, 342-356.
35. 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.
36. Waszak, F., Hőmmel, B., & Allport, A. (2004). Semantic generalization of stimulustask bindings. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 11, 1027-1033.
37. Waszak, F., Hőmmel, B., & Allport, A. (2005). Interaction of task readiness and automatic retrieval in task switching: Negative priming and competitor priming. Memory & Cognition, 33, 595-610.
38. Wylie, G., & Allport, A. (2000). Task switching and the measurement of "switch costs". Psychological Research, 63, 212-233.
39. Yeung, N., & Monsell, S. (2003). Switching between tasks of unequal familiarity: The role of stimulus-attribute and response-set selection. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 29, 455-469.