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Meiran, Nachshon; Hsieh, Shulan; Dimov, Eduard – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2010
Task switching requires maintaining readiness to execute any task of a given set of tasks. However, when tasks switch, the readiness to execute the now-irrelevant task generates interference, as seen in the task rule incongruence effect. Overcoming such interference requires fine-tuned inhibition that impairs task readiness only minimally. In an…
Descriptors: Reaction Time, Inhibition, Classification, Cognitive Development