- Title
- Anticipatory reconfiguration elicited by fully and partially informative cues that validly predict a switch in task
- Creator
- Karayanidis, Frini; Mansfield, Elise L.; Galloway, Kasey L.; Smith, Janette L.; Provost, Alexander; Heathcote, Andrew
- Relation
- Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience Vol. 9, Issue 2, p. 202-215
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/CABN.9.2.202
- Publisher
- Psychonomic Society, Inc.
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2009
- Description
- Task-switching studies show no behavioral benefit of partially informative cues. However, ERP evidence of an early cue-locked positivity elicited by both fully and partially informative cues suggests that both cues trigger an anticipatory component of task set reconfiguration (Nicholson, Karayanidis, Davies, & Michie, 2006). We examined this apparent discrepancy using a cued-trials task-switching paradigm with three tasks. The ERP finding of an early cue-locked positivity was replicated for both switch-to cues, which validly predicted an upcoming switch trial and specified the new task set, and switch-away cues, which validly predicted an upcoming switch trial but not the new task set. This component was not elicited by a noninformative cue that did not specify whether the task would switch or repeat. Switch-away cues resulted in more accurate but not faster responding than did noninformative cues. Modeling of decision processes confirmed a speed–accuracy trade-off between these conditions and a preparation benefit for both switch-to and switch-away cues. These results indicate that both fully and partially informative cues elicit an early anticipatory component of task set reconfiguration that is reflected in the early cue-locked positivity. We argue that the pattern of results is most consistent with a task set inhibition account of this early anticipatory component of task set reconfiguration.
- Subject
- task-switching; informative cues; anticipatory reconfiguration
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/34954
- Identifier
- uon:3784
- Identifier
- ISSN:1530-7026
- Language
- eng
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