Action control in task switching: do action effects modulate N − 2 repetition costs in task switching?

2017 ◽  
Vol 82 (1) ◽  
pp. 146-156 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefanie Schuch ◽  
Angelika Sommer ◽  
Sarah Lukas
Keyword(s):  
Task Switching ◽  
Action Control ◽  
Action Effects

Working Memory and Action Control: Evidence From Task Switching

2000 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan D. Baddeley ◽  
Dino Chincotta ◽  
Anna Adlam
Keyword(s):  
Working Memory ◽  
Task Switching ◽  
Action Control

scholarly journals Action-Effect Sharing Induces Task-Set Sharing in Joint Task Switching

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Motonori Yamaguchi ◽  
Helen Joanne Wall ◽  
Bernhard Hommel
Keyword(s):  
Task Performance ◽  
Task Switching ◽  
Random Order ◽  
Task Set ◽  
Action Effect ◽  
Action Effects ◽  
Switch Costs ◽  
Joint Task ◽  
Relevant Task ◽  
Set Sharing

A central issue in the study of joint task performance has been one of whether co-acting individuals perform their partner’s part of the task as if it were their own. The present study addressed this issue by using joint task switching. A pair of actors shared two tasks that were presented in a random order, whereby the relevant task and actor were cued on each trial. Responses produced action effects that were either shared or separate between co-actors. When co-actors produced separate action effects, switch costs were obtained within the same actor (i.e., when the same actor performed consecutive trials) but not between co-actors (when different actors performed consecutive trials), implying that actors did not perform their co-actor’s part. When the same action effects were shared between co-actors, however, switch costs were also obtained between co-actors, implying that actors did perform their co-actor’s part. The results indicated that shared action effects induce task-set sharing between co-acting individuals.

The role of action effects in infants? action control

2004 ◽  
Vol 68 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 115-125 ◽  
Author(s):  
Petra Hauf ◽  
Birgit Elsner ◽  
Gisa Aschersleben
Keyword(s):  
Action Control ◽  
Action Effects

scholarly journals Positive and negative action-effects improve task-switching performance

2021 ◽  
Vol 221 ◽  
pp. 103440
Author(s):  
Jonas Ludwig ◽  
David Dignath ◽  
Sarah Lukas
Keyword(s):  
Task Switching ◽  
Action Effects ◽  
Switching Performance

The role of action effects in 12-month-olds’ action control: A comparison of televised model and live model

2006 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 535-544 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annette M. Klein ◽  
Petra Hauf ◽  
Gisa Aschersleben
Keyword(s):  
Action Control ◽  
Action Effects ◽  
Live Model

scholarly journals Emotion in Action: A Predictive Processing Perspective and Theoretical Synthesis

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 319-325 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Richard Ridderinkhof
Keyword(s):  
Forward Modeling ◽  
Action Control ◽  
Fine Tuning ◽  
Predictive Processing ◽  
Action Effects ◽  
Theoretical Synthesis ◽  
The World ◽  
Theories Of Action ◽  
Mechanistic View

Starting from a decidedly Frijdian perspective on emotion in action, we adopt neurocognitive theories of action control to analyze the mechanisms through which emotional action arises. Appraisal of events vis-à-vis concerns gives rise to a determinate motive to establish a specific state of the world; the pragmatic idea of the action’s effects incurs the valuation of action options and a change in action readiness in the form of incipient ideomotor capture of the selected action. Forward modeling of the sensory consequences of the selected action option allows for the evaluation and fine-tuning of anticipated action effects, which renders the emotional action impulsive yet purposive. This novel theoretical synthesis depicts the cornerstone principles for a mechanistic view on emotion in action.

Verbal self-instructions in task switching: a compensatory tool for action-control deficits in childhood and old age?

2008 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 223-236 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jutta Kray ◽  
Jutta Eber ◽  
Julia Karbach
Keyword(s):  
Old Age ◽  
Task Switching ◽  
Action Control

scholarly journals The Influence of Action Effects in Task-Switching

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Lukas ◽  
Andrea M. Philipp ◽  
Iring Koch
Keyword(s):  
Task Switching ◽  
Action Effects

Merkmalsintegration und Abruf als wichtige Prozesse der Handlungssteuerung – eine Paradigmen-übergreifende Perspektive

2020 ◽  
Vol 71 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Frings ◽  
Iring Koch ◽  
Klaus Rothermund ◽  
David Dignath ◽  
Carina Giesen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Action Control

Zusammenfassung. Die Kognitionspsychologische Grundlagenforschung zur Handlungskontrolle hat inzwischen eine große Zahl sehr spezifischer Aspekte von Handlungen in diversen Experimentalparadigmen isoliert und beleuchtet, sodass der gegenwärtige Forschungsstand durch eine kaum übersehbare Flut unverbundener Phänomene und paradigmen-spezifischer Modellvorstellungen gekennzeichnet ist. In dem hier vorgeschlagenen Rahmenmodell ( Binding and Retrieval in Action Control, BRAC) werden die für Handlungen wichtigsten Prozesse paradigmen-übergreifend beschrieben, systematisch eingeordnet und in ein Rahmenmodell transferiert, bei dem Merkmalsintegration und Merkmalsabruf als wichtige Mechanismen der Handlungssteuerung dienen. Wir zeigen exemplarisch auf, wie das Rahmenmodell etablierte, aber bislang unabhängig voneinander untersuchte Phänomene der Handlungs-Forschung mithilfe derselben Mechanismen erklärt. Dieses Modell birgt neben seiner Ordnungs- und Integrationsfunktion die Möglichkeit, Phänomen auch aus anderen Forschungskontexten in der Sprache des Modells zu reformulieren. Das Modell soll Wissen aus der Kognitionsforschung bzw. Allgemeinen Psychologie innovativ kondensieren und anderen Disziplinen zur Verfügung stellen.

Task-Switching Training and Transfer

2018 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 106-130 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zsófia Anna Gaál ◽  
István Czigler
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Young Adults ◽  
Cognitive Training ◽  
Task Switching ◽  
Difficulty Level ◽  
Training Procedure ◽  
Far Transfer ◽  
Near Transfer ◽  
Related Potentials ◽  
Transfer Tasks

Abstract. We used task-switching (TS) paradigms to study how cognitive training can compensate age-related cognitive decline. Thirty-nine young (age span: 18–25 years) and 40 older (age span: 60–75 years) women were assigned to training and control groups. The training group received 8 one-hour long cognitive training sessions in which the difficulty level of TS was individually adjusted. The other half of the sample did not receive any intervention. The reference task was an informatively cued TS paradigm with nogo stimuli. Performance was measured on reference, near-transfer, and far-transfer tasks by behavioral indicators and event-related potentials (ERPs) before training, 1 month after pretraining, and in case of older adults, 1 year later. The results showed that young adults had better pretraining performance. The reference task was too difficult for older adults to form appropriate representations as indicated by the behavioral data and the lack of P3b components. But after training older adults reached the level of performance of young participants, and accordingly, P3b emerged after both the cue and the target. Training gain was observed also in near-transfer tasks, and partly in far-transfer tasks; working memory and executive functions did not improve, but we found improvement in alerting and orienting networks, and in the execution of variants of TS paradigms. Behavioral and ERP changes remained preserved even after 1 year. These findings suggest that with an appropriate training procedure older adults can reach the level of performance seen in young adults and these changes persist for a long period. The training also affects the unpracticed tasks, but the transfer depends on the extent of task similarities.

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