The fascinating idea that tools become extensions of our body appears in artistic, literary, philosophical, and scientific works alike. In the last 15 years, this idea has been reframed …
Performance on task switching, a paradigm commonly used to measure executive function, has been shown to improve with practice. However, no study has tested whether these …
EM Altmann - … of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and …, 2007 - psycnet.apa.org
The task-switching literature routinely conflates different operational definitions of switch cost, its predominant behavioral measure. This article is an attempt to draw attention to …
Three experiments investigated the cognitive mechanisms underlying the restart cost and mixing cost in task switching. To this aim, the predictability of task order was varied …
J Karbach, S Mang, J Kray - Psychology and aging, 2010 - psycnet.apa.org
This study investigated the influence of verbal self-instructions (VSI) on the transfer of task- switching training in older adults (56–78 years). We applied an internally cued switching …
CA Bonnin, D Gaonac'h, CA Bouquet - Journal of Cognitive …, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
The present study tested the hypothesis that task-switch frequency triggers adjustments of task-set control processes. A mixed-task condition where task switches are frequent should …
V Gaujoux, E Reynaud, F Osiurak - Psychology of Popular Media, 2024 - psycnet.apa.org
Previous findings on media multitasking have suggested a different management of interference between high and low media multitaskers, with higher media multitaskers …
The authors used a predictable, externally cued task-switching paradigm to investigate executive control in a severe closed-head injury (CHI) population. Eighteen individuals with …
Task-switching is commonly used to investigate working memory and attentional control processes. The current study compares predictive versus non-predictive task-sequencing …