Article: Task switching effects in anticipation timing.(Research Note--Motor Control and Learning)(Report)

Key words: persisting activation, practice schedule effects, range effects

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Switching between two or more actions is a fairy common occurrence that can be seen in a variety of settings. At work, people frequently switch between activities such as typing on a keyboard and dialing a telephone. At home, a person preparing dinner might switch between washing and chopping vegetables. In baseball, a pitcher switches between catching and throwing the ball. The effects of task switching--have been extensively studied in the verbal domain (for a review see Monsell, 2003) using stimulus categorization tasks. In these types of tasks, stimuli are ...

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