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Article: Task switching after stroke.(Research Report)
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- Physical Therapy
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- January 1, 2007
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Executive function is a complex, high-level cognitive domain that describes the ability to plan and regulate a task or combinations of tasks. (1) Task switching is one aspect of executive function. (1) In everyday experience, people often are required to switch activity between 2 or more tasks. Task switching comes at a cost to performance, a cost measured as a switch cost. (2) Switch costs are determined by subtracting performance tinder practice conditions in which no switching is required from performance under practice conditions in which switching is required. The difference reflects the added cognitive burden of task switching. (3) Switching tasks, compared with ...
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