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Motonori Yamaguchi1, Rachel Swainson2
1Department of Psychology, University of Essex.
Journal of Experimental Psychology. Learning, Memory, and Cognition
|November 4, 2024
Summary
The task-switch cost, a common finding in human performance, can vanish after no-go trials. This study suggests that while response selection may occur, interference from the no-go signal can abolish the task-switch cost.
Area of Science:
- Cognitive Psychology
- Neuroscience
Background:
- Task-switch cost is a robust phenomenon in human task performance.
- The absence of this cost after no-go trials is debated: either response selection doesn't occur, or it's interfered with.
Purpose of the Study:
- To test competing accounts for the disappearance of task-switch costs after no-go trials.
- To investigate if response selection necessarily leads to a task-switch cost.
Main Methods:
- Utilized selective go/no-go procedures requiring response selection and inhibition.
- Employed Bayes factors across five experiments to analyze task-switch costs.
Main Results:
- Evidence supported the absence of a task-switch cost after selective no-go trials.
- Confirmed that response selection does not always result in a subsequent task-switch cost.
Conclusions:
- Results align with the task-set interference account.
- Task-switch costs may be generated but abolished by interference from no-go signals with task sets.
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