The Influence of Feedback on Task-Switching Performance: A Drift Diffusion Modeling Account.

ABSTRACT: Task-switching is an important cognitive skill that facilitates our ability to choose appropriate behavior in a varied and changing environment. Task-switching training studies have sought to improve this ability by practicing switching between multiple tasks. However, an efficacious training paradigm has been difficult to develop in part due to findings that small differences in task parameters influence switching behavior in a non-trivial manner. Here, for the first time we employ the Drift Diffusion Model (DDM) to understand the influence of feedback on task-switching and investigate how drift diffusion parameters change over the course of task switch training. We trained 316 participants on a simple task where they alternated sorting stimuli by color or by shape. Feedback differed in s

SUBMITTER: Cohen Hoffing R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5801306 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature