A carry-over task rule in task switching: an ERP investigation using a Go/Nogo paradigm

Kaoru Umebayashi1, Tsunetaka Okita

  • 1Department of Home and Life Sciences, Gifu Women's University, 80, Taromaru, Gifu City 501-2592, Japan. kaoru@gijodai.ac.jp

Biological Psychology
|November 28, 2012
PubMed
Summary

Task switching incurs a cost due to lingering stimulus-response (SR) rules. This study used event-related brain potentials (ERPs) to show that Nogo trials reveal these carry-over effects, impacting early automatic processes.