Document Type
Article
Department/Program
Psychology
Journal Title
Journal of Experimental Psychology-Human Perception and Performance
Pub Date
2013
Volume
39
Issue
3
First Page
700
Abstract
The primary aim of the present research was to determine how stimulus-set and response-set components of task-set contribute to switch costs and conflict processing. Three experiments are described wherein participants completed an explicitly cued task-switching procedure. Experiment 1 established that task switches requiring a reconfiguration of both stimulus- and response-set incurred larger residual switch costs than task switches requiring the reconfiguration of stimulus-set alone. Between-task interference was also drastically reduced for response-set conflict compared with stimulus-set conflict. A second experiment replicated these findings and demonstrated that stimulus- and response-conflict have dissociable effects on the "decision time" and "motor time" components of total response time. Finally, a third experiment replicated Experiment 2 and demonstrated that the stimulus- and response- components of task switching and conflict processing elicit dissociable neural activity as evidence by event-related brain potentials.
Recommended Citation
Kieffaber, Paul D.; Walker, Philip M.; Kruschke, John K.; Hetrick, William P.; and Cho, Raymond Y., Dissociating Stimulus-Set and Response-Set in the Context of Task-Set Switching (2013). Journal of Experimental Psychology-Human Perception and Performance, 39(3), 700-719.
10.1037/a0029545
DOI
10.1037/a0029545
