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The aim of the present study was to examine the contribution of overlapping response sets to the occurrence of task inhibition, measured asn-2 task repetition cost. We had subjects switch among four tasks. Three tasks overlapped on both stimulus set and response set. A fourth,neutral, univalent task never overlapped on the stimulus set but, across three experiments, varied in terms of the degree of overlap in the response set. We found that overlap in response set affects task inhibition. We suggest that response set overlap increases the competition among tasks and, thus, triggers task inhibition to resolve this competition.
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Gade, M., Koch, I. The influence of overlapping response sets on task inhibition. Memory & Cognition 35, 603–609 (2007). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03193298
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