Switching between two different tasks normally results in an impairment in people's
performance known as a switch cost, typically measured as an increase in reaction time (RT) …

Switch costs occur whenever participants are asked to switch between two or more task sets.
In a typical task switching experiment, participants have to switch between two task sets …

Four task-switching experiments examined the notion of an exogenous component of task-
set reconfiguration (ie, a process needed to shift task set that is not initiated in the absence …

A task switch typically leads to worse performance than a repetition does. This shift cost can
be reduced with sufficient task preparation time, but a residual cost usually remains. We …

In task switching, when the amount of preparation time is increased, a reduction in switch
cost or RISC effect is observed. This RISC effect is frequently attributed to advance …

Abstract Recently, we [Kleinsorge & Heuer (1999) Psychological Research, 62, 300–312]
introduced the notion of generalizing switching operations to account for a characteristic …

Previous studies have shown that the probability of task switching can vary the level of
cognitive control and modulate the size of switch costs. However, it is unclear whether switch …

Many studies of task switching have found that a prolonged preparation time reduces switch
costs. An alternative manipulation of task preparation is based on sequential task …

Recently,; Experiment 3) reported an experiment on voluntary task switching (VTS) in which
the number of candidate tasks to choose from was reduced from 4 to 2 before participants …

If two stimuli are presented with a short stimulus–onset asynchrony (SOA), the response to
the second stimulus is usually slower than on longer SOAs. Bottleneck theories attribute …