@article{ref1,
title="Transformation of task components into an integrated representation during task switching",
journal="Acta psychologica",
year="2007",
author="Kleinsorge, Thomas and Gajewski, Patrick D.",
volume="125",
number="3",
pages="334-345",
abstract="We combined task switching with a change paradigm to trace the transformation of the information conveyed by task cues into a readiness to perform the cued task. The tasks were composed of two components that allowed us to determine switch costs as a function of the number of changed task components. With a short stimulus-onset asynchrony (SOA) of 200ms, switch costs grew monotonically as a function of the number of changed components. With a SOA of 400ms, the switch-cost profile exhibited a nonmonotonic characteristic that was previously observed only with switches from an already performed task. Our observations suggest that task preparation can be considered as a process by which an unstructured representation of task components is gradually transformed into an integrated task representation that comprises asymmetrical associations between the task components.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0001-6918",
doi="10.1016/j.actpsy.2006.09.002",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2006.09.002"
}