Article: The effect of stimulus availability on task choice in voluntary task switching

Article: Data from Lehigh University, Department of Psychology provide new insights into life sciences.
Science Letter;  July 29, 2008 ;     297 words ......availability on task choice in voluntary task switching,' is now available...The voluntary task switching paradigm allows...availability on task choice, investigators...availability on task choice in voluntary task switching. Memory & ...

Article: Task switching after stroke.(Research Report)
Physical Therapy;  January 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......task or combinations of tasks. (1) Task switching is one aspect of executive function...switch activity between 2 or more tasks. Task switching comes at a cost to performance, a cost...reflects the added cognitive burden of task switching. (3) Switching tasks, compared with...

Article: Training and transfer effects in task switching
Memory & Cognition;  December 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ...Performance on task switching, a paradigm commonly used to measure...training on executive processing. Task switching is an increasingly popular method...cognitive control. In the typical task- switching paradigm, a participant must switch...

Article: Task switching effects in anticipation timing.(Research Note--Motor Control and Learning)(Report)
Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport;  March 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......and throwing the ball. The effects of task switching--have been extensively studied in the...switching difficult. The effects of task switching on stimulus categorization tasks have...experimental manipulation. Muck of the task switching literature has focused on determining...

Article: Probe-specific proportion task repetition effects on switching costs
Perception and Psychophysics;  August 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......results for prevailing explanations of task switching costs. People typically perform a task...amp; Biederman, 1976). Such costs of task switching are thought to reflect two distinct...2003, p. 135). Observations of smaller task switching costs when participants are provided...

Article: Windows changes the person-computer connection. (Microsoft Windows 3.0) (PC Power)
HRMagazine;  June 1, 1992 ;     700+ words ......graphical user interface, multi-tasking and task switching, and common commands. Graphical user...giving directions in DOS. (Windows does Task switching and multitasking. People tend to move...as in learning to catch a baseball. Task switching and multitasking. A computer that can...

Article: Studies from Michigan State University, Department of Psychology have provided new data on behavior.(Report)
Biotech Week;  September 17, 2008 ;     343 words ...Scientists discuss in 'Shifting set about task switching: behavioral and neural evidence for...flexibility' new findings in behavior. Task switching is an important aspect of cognitive...we contrast two different kinds of task switching paradigms and provide evidence that...

Article: Sequential task predictability in task switching
Psychonomic Bulletin & Review;  February 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ...Many studies of task switching have found that a prolonged preparation...specific. The data thus suggest that task switching does not necessarily require a...task set have been studied using task switching. In task-switching experiments...

Article: On the difficulty of task switching: Assessing the role of task-set inhibition
Psychonomic Bulletin & Review;  June 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......assessed whether or not the difficulty of task switching stems from previous inhibition of the...the data provide no evidence that task switching is difficult because of the need to...cognitive processes enable flexible task switching and why do these processes slow subsequent...

Article: Task switching is not cue switching
Psychonomic Bulletin & Review;  December 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......aim of reducing cognitive control in task switching to simpler processes, researchers have...no; not very; not very) suggest that task switching does not reduce to cue switching. Task-switching procedures are useful for studying...

Article: Recent findings from Iowa State University highlight research in psychophysiology.
Psychology & Psychiatry Journal;  July 28, 2008 ;     278 words ......neural correlates of processes underlying task switching in the information-reduction task switching paradigm. Each experiment included 22...facilitate performance of the explicit cue task switching paradigm. Travers and colleagues published...

Article: New cognition study findings have been reported by researchers at Washington University.
Health & Medicine Week;  January 26, 2009 ;     251 words ...Performance on task switching, a paradigm commonly used to measure executive function, has...study in Memory & Cognition (Training and transfer effects in task switching. Memory & Cognition, 2008;36(8):1470-1483). Additional information...

Article: Study data from School of Psychology update understanding of life sciences.(Report)
Health & Medicine Week;  October 27, 2008 ;     327 words ......The role of response repetition in task switching' new findings in life sciences. According...were examined in both single task and task-switching designs. Results showed that part of...analysis revealed a novel effect: When task switching and repetition trials are mixed, a...

Article: Study findings from Ghent University, Department of Experimental Psychology provide new insights into life sciences.
Life Science Weekly;  November 11, 2008 ;     356 words ......representation of task information in task switching: evidence from task and dimension switching' new findings in life sciences. Task switching research has revealed that task changes...representation of task information in task switching: evidence from task and dimension switching...