Contextual Features of the Cue Enter Episodic Bindings in Task Switching

ABSTRACT: Evidence suggests that the features of a stimulus and the actions performed on it are bound together into a coherent mental representation of the episode, which is retrieved from memory upon reencountering at least one of these features. Effects of such binding and retrieval processes emerge in action control, such as in multitasking situations like task switching. In the task-switching paradigm, response-repetition benefits are observed in task repetitions, but response-repetition costs in task switches. This interaction of task repetition (vs. switch) with response repetition (vs. switch) may be explained in terms of task-response binding. In two experiments, we included a task-irrelevant contextual feature in a cued task-switching paradigm using word identification tasks. In Experiment

SUBMITTER: Benini E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9400634 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature