Jove
Visualize
Contact Us
JoVE
x logofacebook logolinkedin logoyoutube logo
ABOUT JoVE
OverviewLeadershipBlogJoVE Help Center
AUTHORS
Publishing ProcessEditorial BoardScope & PoliciesPeer ReviewFAQSubmit
LIBRARIANS
TestimonialsSubscriptionsAccessResourcesLibrary Advisory BoardFAQ
RESEARCH
JoVE JournalMethods CollectionsJoVE Encyclopedia of ExperimentsArchive
EDUCATION
JoVE CoreJoVE BusinessJoVE Science EducationJoVE Lab ManualFaculty Resource CenterFaculty Site
Terms & Conditions of Use
Privacy Policy
Policies

Related Experiment Videos

Specifying executive representations and processes in number generation tasks.

S K Scott1, P J Barnard, J May

  • 1MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, UK. sophie.scott@ucl.ac.uk

The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. A, Human Experimental Psychology
|September 8, 2001
PubMed
Summary
This summary is machine-generated.

Related Concept Videos

You might also read

Related Articles

Articles linked to this work by shared authors, journal, and citation graph.

Sort by
Same author

The effects of β-caryophyllene on butyrate utilization and metabolism in Caco-2 cells.

Scientific reports·2026
Same author

Structures of strong shocks in low-density helium and neon gases.

Physical review. E·2023
Same author

Eosinophilic pneumonia and COVID-19 vaccination.

QJM : monthly journal of the Association of Physicians·2022
Same author

Study of enteric pathogens among children in the tropics and effects of prolonged storage of stool samples.

Letters in applied microbiology·2021
Same author

Water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) factors associated with growth between birth and 1 year of age in children in Soweto, South Africa: results from the Soweto Baby WASH study.

Journal of water and health·2020
Same author

Intersectoral (in)activity: towards an understanding of public sector department links between water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) and childhood undernutrition in South Africa.

Health policy and planning·2020
Same journal

Relations between emotion, illusory word perception, and orthographic repetition blindness: tests of binding theory.

The Quarterly journal of experimental psychology. A, Human experimental psychology·2005
Same journal

Causal and noncausal conditionals: an integrated model of interpretation and reasoning.

The Quarterly journal of experimental psychology. A, Human experimental psychology·2005
Same journal

Phonological similarity effects in verbal complex span.

The Quarterly journal of experimental psychology. A, Human experimental psychology·2005
Same journal

By which name should I call thee? The consequences of having multiple names.

The Quarterly journal of experimental psychology. A, Human experimental psychology·2005
Same journal

Stimulus similarity decrements in children's working memory span.

The Quarterly journal of experimental psychology. A, Human experimental psychology·2005
Same journal

Lag-1 sparing in the attentional blink: benefits and costs of integrating two events into a single episode.

The Quarterly journal of experimental psychology. A, Human experimental psychology·2005
See all related articles

The Interacting Cognitive Subsystems (ICS) framework suggests executive functions arise from distinct meaning-processing subsystems. Experiments show task constraints influence number generation, supporting separate propositional and implicational processing in cognition.

Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Neuroscience
  • Human-Computer Interaction

Background:

  • The Interacting Cognitive Subsystems (ICS) framework posits central executive functions are managed by two autonomous subsystems processing propositional and schematic (implicational) meanings.
  • Executive control limitations stem from restricted information exchange between these subsystems.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To elaborate on the ICS framework by investigating the underlying representations of number and task constraints.
  • To empirically test the distinction between propositional and implicational processing within executive function.

Main Methods:

  • Four experiments involving 1,293 participants generating large verbal numbers under varied task constraints.
  • Analysis of response variations based on explicit (instructional) and inferred (implicational) information.

Related Experiment Videos

Main Results:

  • Participant responses systematically shifted based on their use of propositional and implicational information.
  • A significant error rate (6-24%) was observed, with responses falling outside specified ranges.

Conclusions:

  • The findings support the ICS framework's distinction between propositional and implicational processing in executive function.
  • This research provides a model for understanding normal executive representations and processes.