Task Switching and Cognitive Control Processes | Using increases to stimulus dimension, stimulus set size, and task practice

Julian Breeze

ISBN 10: 384439849X / ISBN 13: 9783844398496

Published by LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2011

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Task Switching and Cognitive Control Processes | Using increases to stimulus dimension, stimulus set size, and task practice | Julian Breeze | Taschenbuch | 144 S. | Englisch | 2011 | LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing | EAN 9783844398496 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: preigu GmbH & Co. KG, Lengericher Landstr. 19, 49078 Osnabrück, mail[at]preigu[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu.

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• Title: Task Switching and Cognitive Control Processes | Using increases to stimulus dimension, stimulus set size, and task practice
• Publisher: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 384439849X
• ISBN 13: 9783844398496
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 220W x 150H x 10D millimeters 220 millimeters width by 150 millimeters height by 10 millimeters depth
• Weight: 233 grams
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Synopsis

The aim of this work is to understand some of the processes involved in the selection of appropriate tasks, and in the selection of correct responses to those tasks. The main focus will be on how interference and conflict occurs during these processes, either at the perceptual or action selection stages when switching task. It should be possible to demonstrate with increases to the number of attributes, the experience of tasks associated with non-target attributes, and in varying the number of trials before switching tasks, that task selection consists of several stages or processes, and that these processes do not necessarily interact. This will show that the switch cost is not an unitary cost associated with changing a single response-stimulus setting, task parameter, or an overall task set, but a composite of various costs associated with different task selection processes.

About the Author

After my PhD in Psychology at Bangor, I worked on research looking at the affect of schizotypy on episodic memory retrieval at Cardiff University using ERP's. I'm currently at Bangor University examining the affect of stress on the cardiovascular system, and cortical involvement in the regulation and perception of the heart using fMRI.