You can't always get what you want: The influence of unexpected task constraint on voluntary task switching

• Published in: Quarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006) Vol. 67; no. 11; pp. 2247 - 2259
• Main Authors: Weaver, Starla M., Foxe, John J., Shpaner, Marina, Wylie, Glenn R.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London, England Routledge 2014; SAGE Publications; Psychology Press
• Subjects: Analysis of Variance; Attention - physiology; Biological and medical sciences; Choice Behavior; Cognition. Intelligence; Cues; Female; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Humans; Male; Miscellaneous; Photic Stimulation; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychology. Psychophysiology; Psychomotor Performance - physiology; Reaction Time - physiology; Reproducibility of Results; Task preparation; Task switching; Time Factors; Voluntary task switching; Task switching; Task preparation; Voluntary task switching; Intellectual flexibility; Human; Preparation; Cognition; Experimental study

The current study assessed the effect that unexpected task constraint, following self-generated task choice, has on task switching performance. Participants performed a modified double-registration voluntary task switching procedure in which participants specified the task they wanted to perform, we...