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Beisert, Miriam; Massen, Cristina; Prinz, Wolfgang – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2010
In tool use, a transformation rule defines the relation between an operating movement and its distal effect. This rule is determined by the tool structure and requires no explicit definition. The present study investigates how humans represent and apply compatible and incompatible transformation rules in tool use. In Experiment 1, participants had…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Experiments, Models, Motion
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Steinhauser, Marco – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2010
It has been proposed that switch costs in task switching reflect the strengthening of task-related associations and that strengthening is triggered by response execution. The present study tested the hypothesis that only task-related responses are able to trigger strengthening. Effects of task strengthening caused by error corrections were…
Descriptors: Error Correction, Task Analysis, Feedback (Response), Handedness