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Houghton, George; Pritchard, Rhys; Grange, James A. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2009
Backward inhibition (BI) refers to a reaction time cost incurred when returning to a recently abandoned task compared to returning to a task not recently performed. The effect has been proposed to reflect an inhibitory mechanism that aids transition from one task to another. The question arises as to precisely what aspects of a task may be…
Descriptors: Stimuli, Reaction Time, Inhibition, Componential Analysis