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Extending the Failure-to-Engage theory of task switch costs
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Poboka, D and Karayanidis, F and Heathcote, A, Extending the Failure-to-Engage theory of task switch costs, Cognitive psychology, 72 pp. 108-141. ISSN 0010-0285 (2014) [Refereed Article]
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Copyright 2014 Elsevier Inc.
DOI: doi:10.1016/j.cogpsych.2014.02.003
Abstract
Failure-to-Engage (FTE, De Jong, 2000) theory explains slowed response time after switching tasks as in part due to participants sometimes failing to prepare. Brown et al. (2006) rejected FTE because, in an alternating-runs paradigm, they did not observe fixed crossing point between response-time distributions that it predicts. We replicated these findings in a cued-task paradigm that allowed us to separately examine the effects of response-to-target interval and cue-to-target interval. These results guided an extension of FTE that was tested in a further experiment and shown to be able to accommodate the effects of the interval manipulations as well as both task and cue switching. We then apply a new modeling approach to obtain direct estimates of the probability of preparation and conclude that De Jong's insights about preparation failure provide a tractable framework that can explain aspects of all of the four major task-switching phenomena identified by Monsell (2003).
Item Details
Item Type: | Refereed Article |
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Keywords: | Cognitive control; Mathematical modeling; Response time distribution; Task switching |
Research Division: | Psychology |
Research Group: | Cognitive and computational psychology |
Research Field: | Decision making |
Objective Division: | Expanding Knowledge |
Objective Group: | Expanding knowledge |
Objective Field: | Expanding knowledge in psychology |
UTAS Author: | Heathcote, A (Professor Andrew Heathcote) |
ID Code: | 98936 |
Year Published: | 2014 |
Web of Science® Times Cited: | 7 |
Deposited By: | Medicine |
Deposited On: | 2015-03-10 |
Last Modified: | 2017-10-31 |
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