Evidence for capacity sharing when stopping.

ABSTRACT: Research on multitasking indicates that central processing capacity is limited, resulting in a performance decrement when central processes overlap in time. A notable exception seems to be stopping responses. The main theoretical and computational accounts of stop performance assume that going and stopping do not share processing capacity. This independence assumption has been supported by many behavioral studies and by studies modeling the processes underlying going and stopping. However, almost all previous investigations of capacity sharing between stopping and going have manipulated the difficulty of the go task while keeping the stop task simple. In the present study, we held the difficulty of the go task constant and manipulated the difficulty of the stop task. We report the results

SUBMITTER: Verbruggen F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4787292 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature