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Gepubliceerd in: Psychological Research 4/2007

01-07-2007 | Original Article

Methodological and empirical issues when dissociating cue-related from task-related processes in the explicit task-cuing procedure

Auteurs: Birte U. Forstmann, Marcel Brass, Iring Koch

Gepubliceerd in: Psychological Research | Uitgave 4/2007

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Abstract

In the explicit cuing version of the task-switching paradigm, each individual task is indicated by a unique task cue. Consequently, a task switch is accompanied by a cue switch. Recently, it has been proposed that priming of cue encoding contributes to the empirically observed switch costs. This proposal was experimentally supported by using a 2:1 mapping of cues to tasks, so that a cue switch does not necessarily imply a task switch. The results indeed suggested a substantial contribution of “cue-switch costs” to task-switch costs. Here we argue that the 2:1 mapping potentially leads to an underestimation of “pure” task-switch costs. To support this argument, we report the results of a new study in which we used “transition cues” that indicate the identity of the current task based on the identity of the preceding task. This new type of cue allows a full factorial manipulation of cue switches and task switches because it includes the condition in which a cue repetition can also indicate a task switch (i.e., when the “switch” cue is repeated). We discuss the methodological implications and argue that the present approach has merits relative to the previously used 2:1 mapping of cues to tasks.
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Metagegevens
Titel
Methodological and empirical issues when dissociating cue-related from task-related processes in the explicit task-cuing procedure
Auteurs
Birte U. Forstmann
Marcel Brass
Iring Koch
Publicatiedatum
01-07-2007
Uitgeverij
Springer-Verlag
Gepubliceerd in
Psychological Research / Uitgave 4/2007
Print ISSN: 0340-0727
Elektronisch ISSN: 1430-2772
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-005-0040-4

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