Task switching and the measurement of “switch costs”

By Glenn R. Wylie, Alan Allport. Psychological Research, 2000

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Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Neuroscience

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A context maintenance and retrieval model of organizational processes in free recall (2009, background): “Researchers have shown that there is a cost to performance associated with switching from one task to another task (e.g., Allport et al., 1994; Wylie & Allport, 2000).”
Task-switching and long-term priming: role of episodic stimulus-task bindings in task-shift costs. (2003, background): “Accordingly, Allport and Wylie (2000; Wylie & Allport, 2000 ) suggested that RT switch costs and restart costs may generally be due to the same kind of mechanism.”
Enhanced performance on executive functions associated with examination stress: Evidence from task-switching and Stroop paradigms (2006, background): “If that trial requires a task switch, successful performance depends on one's ability to overcome this perseverative tendency (Allport & Wylie, 2000; Mayr & Keele, 2000; Meiran & Daichman, 2005).”
A computational model of fractionated conflict-control mechanisms in task-switching. (2007, background): “These participants came from the Washington University area and were compensated for their participation by being paid $10/hour.”
Between-Task Competition and Cognitive Control in Task Switching (2006, background): “…it has been proposed that subjects have a tendency to continue to perform the same task from one trial to the next, an effect termed “task-set inertia,” which results in poor performance when task requirements change (Allport et al., 1994; Wylie and Allport, 2000; Yeung and Monsell, 2003a,b).”
Control and interference in task switching--a review. (2010, background): “In contrast, Allport and colleagues proposed a rather different account (e.g., Allport et al., 1994; Allport & Wylie, 1999; Wylie & Allport, 2000).”
The Brain's Router: A Cortical Network Model of Serial Processing in the Primate Brain (2010, neutral): “interference’’ – the inability to perform several tasks at once [4–8].”
Perseverative behavior and adaptive control in older adults: performance monitoring, rule induction, and set shifting. (2002, background): “An alternation view of shift costs is in terms of proactive interference (e.g., Wylie & Allport, 2000).”
The development of executive function in childhood (2008, neutral): “…on a „stronger‟ more familiar task compared to a weaker task has also been found in the adult task-switching literature (Allport, Styles, & Hsieh, 1994; Allport & Wylie, 2000; Wylie & Allport, 2000), although only under certain conditions (Monsell, Yeung, & Azuma, 2000; Yeung & Monsell, 2003b).”
In Opposition to Inhibition (2003, background): “An example of a predictable sequence would be switching from word reading to color naming, or the reverse, in a variant of the Stroop paradigm (e.g., Allport et al., 1994; Wylie & Allport, 2000).”
ARTICLE WITH PEER COMMENTARIES AND RESPONSE Helping children apply their knowledge to their behavior on a dimension-switching task (2003, background): “a ‘red truck’ card in our paradigm, where the correct response for red or truck would be the same; Allport & Wylie, 2000; Goschke, 2000; Jersild, 1927; Mayr, 2001; Meiran, 1996, 2000; Rogers & Monsell, 1995; Spector & Biederman, 1976; Wylie & Allport, 2000 ).”
Chain Reactions: The Impact of Order on Microtask Chains (2016, methodology): “We included L-only and H-only as control conditions to understand how performing a microtask with no preceding tasks compares to one that transitions from other microtasks, since these complexity shifts could impose a mental switch cost [47].”
Development of cognitive control and executive functions from 4 to 13 years: evidence from manipulations of memory, inhibition, and task switching. (2006, result): “…would show the same " asymmetric switch costs " (a greater relative switch cost for switching to the easier [Congruent] condition) previously reported in adults (Allport & Wylie, 2000; Allport et al., 1994; De Jong, 1995; Kleinsorge & Heuer, 1999; Los, 1996; Stoffels, 1996; Wylie & Allport, 2000).”
Task switching: interplay of reconfiguration and interference control. (2010, methodology): “The interference view easily explains such a finding by referring to the possibility that stimuli become associated with responses (e.g., Wylie & Allport, 2000) or with tasks (e.g., Mayr & Bryck, 2005; Waszak et al., 2005).”