How the Working Memory with Distributed Executive Control Model Accounts for Task Switching and Dual-Task Coordination Costs.

ABSTRACT: According to the working memory model with distributed executive control (WMDEC), working memory is not only used for temporary maintenance of information, but it also serves goal-directed action by maintaining task-related information. Such information may include the current action goal, the means selected to attain the goal, situational constraints, and interim processing results. A computational version of the WMDEC model was used to simulate human performance in a series of experiments that examined particular predictions regarding task switching costs, costs due to task and attention switching, to dual-task coordination in working memory tasks, and to experiments that required dual-task coordination of memorisation and task switching demands. The results of these simulations are repo

SUBMITTER: Vandierendonck A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7792467 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature