Timing is affected by demands in memory search but not by task switching
| Autor: | Rémi Gaudreault, Claudette Fortin, Richard Schweickert, Charles Viau-Quesnel |
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| Rok vydání: | 2010 |
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Task switching Experimental psychology interference Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Stimulus (physiology) 050105 experimental psychology Executive Function Young Adult 03 medical and health sciences Behavioral Neuroscience 0302 clinical medicine Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) timing Psychophysics Reaction Time Psychology Humans Attention 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences scheduling digit classification 05 social sciences Cognition task switching Middle Aged Time perception Memory Short-Term Pattern Recognition Visual Reading Time Perception Task analysis Female memory search Psychomotor Performance 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Cognitive psychology |
| Zdroj: | Department of Psychological Sciences Faculty Publications |
| ISSN: | 1939-1277 0096-1523 |
| DOI: | 10.1037/a0017639 |
| Popis: | Recent studies suggest that timing and tasks involving executive control processes might require the same attentional resources. This should lead to interference when timing and executive tasks are executed concurrently. This study examined the interference between timing and task switching, an executive function. In 4 experiments, memory search and digit classification were performed successively in 4 conditions: search-search (search followed by search), search-digit, digit-search, and digit-digit. In a control reaction time (RT) condition, participants provided RT responses in each of the 2 tasks. In a time production condition, an RT response was provided to the first stimulus, but the response to the second stimulus, S2, was given only when participants judged that a previously presented target duration had elapsed. When responding to S2 required a switch, RTs to S2 were longer, but produced intervals were unaffected. These results show that memory search affects concurrent timing, but not task switching. Task switching seems therefore to be 1 executive function that does not interfer with timing. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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