Abstract
This study investigated the nature of switch costs after trials on which the cued task had been either only prepared (cue-only trials) or both prepared and performed (completed trials). Previous studies have found that task-switch costs occur following cue-only trials, demonstrating that preparing-without performing-a task is sufficient to produce a subsequent switch cost. However, it is not clear whether switch costs after these different types of trial reflect an impact of task-switching upon task preparation or task performance on the current trial. The present study examined this question using a double-registration procedure with both cue-only and completed trials. Participants responded to both task-cue and target stimuli. In cue responses, a cost of switching task cues (cue-switch cost) but not of switching tasks (task-switch cost) followed both cue-only and completed trials. In target responses, a task-switch cost but no cue-switch cost followed both cue-only trials and completed trials, and this task-switch cost was larger following completed than cue-only trials. The presence of the task-switch cost in target responses following cue-only trials indicates a specific impact of previous preparation upon task performance, and the increased size of this cost following completed trials indicates an additional impact of previous performance. Together, these results suggest that both task preparation and task performance contribute to the subsequent task-switch cost affecting task performance. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 39-51 |
| Number of pages | 13 |
| Journal | Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| Early online date | 27 Jul 2023 |
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| Publication status | Published - 1 Jan 2024 |
| Event | Experimental Psychology Society Summer Meeting 2019 - Bournemouth University, Bournemouth, United Kingdom Duration: 10 Jul 2019 → 12 Jul 2019 https://eps.ac.uk/previous-meetings/ |
Bibliographical note
This work was supported by the Economic and Social Research Council [grant number ES/R005613/1] and was previously presented at a meeting of the Experimental Psychology Society (Bournemouth, UK, July 2019). For the purpose of open access, the authors have applied a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) licence to any Author Accepted Manuscript version arising.Data Availability Statement
The data are available at https://reshare.ukdataservice.ac.uk/854364/. Analysis code and research materials are available at https://osf.io/d3r8z/. The preregistration document is availablet= https://aspredicted.org/t4vx2.pdf. We would like to thank Madhuri Thakur, Milena Gimadieva and Vasilena Voynikova for assistance with data collection.
Keywords
- cognitive control
- double-registration procedure
- preparation
- performance
- task switching