Errors in Task Switching: Investigating Error Aftereffects in a N-2 Repetition Cost Paradigm

Autor/inn/en	Moretti, Luca; Koch, Iring; Steinhauser, Marco; Schuch, Stefanie
Titel	Errors in Task Switching: Investigating Error Aftereffects in a N-2 Repetition Cost Paradigm
Quelle	In: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 47 (2021) 10, S.1720-1737 (18 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Moretti, Luca) ORCID (Koch, Iring) ORCID (Steinhauser, Marco) ORCID (Schuch, Stefanie)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0278-7393
DOI	10.1037/xlm0001034
Schlagwörter	Task Analysis; Error Patterns; Cognitive Ability; Attention Control; Responses; Prediction; Correlation; Executive Function; Error Correction; Stimuli; Inhibition; Foreign Countries; Germany + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Aufgabenanalyse; Fehlertyp; Denkfähigkeit; Aufmerksamkeitstest; Vorhersage; Korrelation; Korrektur; Anreizsystem; Hemmung; Ausland; Deutschland
Abstract	Studies of switching between tasks and studies of error commission have both provided solid behavioral measures of executive control. Nonetheless, a gap remains between these strands of research. In three experiments we sought to reduce this gap by assessing the impact of task errors on N-2 repetition costs, an effect supposedly related to task-set inhibition. Based on previous literature reporting a task-switch benefit following task errors, due to incidental learning of the erroneously executed task-set, we predicted N-2 repetition costs to be decreased after task errors in Trial N-2, relative to correct responses. Furthermore, we predicted this effect to be present only when corrective control mechanisms would not have the time to build up on the post-error trial (i.e., following fast post-error trial only). This hypothesis was tested in a three-tasks paradigm using incongruent stimuli, under the assumption that errors on such trials are partly due to task confusions. Consistent with our predictions, N-2 repetition costs following N-2 errors were found to be reduced when responses in Trial N-1 were fast but were present when the N-1 response was slow. Taken together, our results suggest that task execution leads to associative strengthening of the corresponding task-set, irrespective of response accuracy, and that such automatic strengthening can be counteracted by slowly acting control mechanisms. (As Provided).
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