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Article: Data from Lehigh University, Department of Psychology provide new insights into life sciences.
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- Science Letter
- Article date:
- July 29, 2008
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A new study, 'The effect of stimulus availability on task choice in voluntary task switching,' is now available. "The voluntary task switching paradigm allows subjects to choose which task to perform on each trial in a stimulus environment affording multiple tasks. The present study examined the effect of stimulus availability on task choice," investigators in the United States report (see also Life Sciences).
"Subjects viewed displays containing a digit and a letter and performed either an even/odd or a consonant/vowel judgment on each trial. The target stimuli appeared with a stimulus onset asynchrony (SOA) of 0, 50, 100, or 150 msec. The probability of ...