Disentangling task-selection failures from task-execution failures in task switching: an assessment of different paradigms.

ABSTRACT: Differentiating errors on the basis of the distinct cognitive mechanisms that may have generated them has provided neuropsychologists with useful diagnostic tools. For example, perseverative errors arising from the inability of the patient to set a new criterion for responding are considered one of the hallmarks of cognitive inflexibility. Similarly, in the task-switching paradigm it is possible to distinguish between task-confusion errors, produced by a failure in task selection, and response-confusion errors, arising when the correct task is selected, but the wrong response is given. Nonetheless, only a few studies so far have exploited the existence of different kinds of errors in multitasking situations to inform theories of cognitive flexibility. In the present study, we set out to us

SUBMITTER: Moretti L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10017612 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature