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Patsenko, Elena G.; Altmann, Erik M. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2010
Routine human behavior has often been attributed to plans--mental representations of sequences goals and actions--but can also be attributed to more opportunistic interactions of mind and a structured environment. This study asks whether performance on a task traditionally analyzed in terms of plans can be better understood from a "situated" (or…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Attention, Experimental Psychology, Memory
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Altmann, Erik M. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2007
The compound-cue model of cognitive control in task switching explains switch cost in terms of a switch of task cues rather than of a switch of tasks. The present study asked whether the model generalizes to Lag 2 repetition cost (also known as backward inhibition), a related effect in which the switch from B to A in ABA task sequences is costlier…
Descriptors: Cues, Inhibition, Models, Cognitive Processes