Advance task preparation reduces task error rate in the cuing task-switching paradigm.
Advance preparation reduces RT task-switching cost, which is thought to be evidence of preparatory control in the cuing task-switching paradigm. In the present study, we emphasize errors in relation to response speed. In two experiments, we show that (1) task switching increased the rate at which the currently irrelevant task was erroneously executed ("task errors") and (2) advance task preparation reduced the task error rate to that seen in nonswitch trials. The implications of the results to the hypothesis concerning task-specific preparation are discussed.
Department of Behavioral Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel. nmeiran@bgumail.ac.il
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