Contextual Features of the Cue Enter Episodic Bindings in Task Switching
Evidence suggests that the features of a stimulus and the actions performed on it are bound together into a coherent mental representation of the episode, which is retrieved from memory upon reencountering at least one of these features. Effects of such binding and retrieval processes emerge in acti...
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| author | Elena Benini Iring Koch Susanne Mayr Christian Frings Andrea M. Philipp |
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| description | Evidence suggests that the features of a stimulus and the actions performed on it are bound together into a coherent mental representation of the episode, which is retrieved from memory upon reencountering at least one of these features. Effects of such binding and retrieval processes emerge in action control, such as in multitasking situations like task switching. In the task-switching paradigm, response-repetition benefits are observed in task repetitions, but response-repetition costs in task switches. This interaction of task repetition (vs. switch) with response repetition (vs. switch) may be explained in terms of task-response binding. In two experiments, we included a task-irrelevant contextual feature in a cued task-switching paradigm using word identification tasks. In Experiment 1, the cue modality could vary between visual and auditory; in Experiment 2, the cue language could vary between English and Spanish, while the target stimulus was always presented visually and in German. We predicted that repeating the contextual feature in the subsequent trial would retrieve the features of the previous trial, even though cue modality or cue language did not afford any response and were not associated with either task. The results showed that response repetition-benefits in task repetitions were observable when the context (i.e., the modality or the language of the cue) repeated but disappeared when the context switched from the previous trial. These results are consistent with context-specific binding and retrieval processes in task switching. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-d7bd907a751a453eb776579bb01f94b62022-12-22T02:23:38ZengUbiquity PressJournal of Cognition2514-48202022-04-015110.5334/joc.220239Contextual Features of the Cue Enter Episodic Bindings in Task SwitchingElena Benini0Iring Koch1Susanne Mayr2Christian Frings3Andrea M. Philipp4Chair of Cognitive and Experimental Psychology, Institute of Psychology, RWTH Aachen UniversityChair of Cognitive and Experimental Psychology, Institute of Psychology, RWTH Aachen UniversityChair of Psychology and Human-Machine Interaction, University of PassauChair of General Psychology and Methodology, Department of Cognitive Psychology, University of TrierChair of Cognitive and Experimental Psychology, Institute of Psychology, RWTH Aachen UniversityEvidence suggests that the features of a stimulus and the actions performed on it are bound together into a coherent mental representation of the episode, which is retrieved from memory upon reencountering at least one of these features. Effects of such binding and retrieval processes emerge in action control, such as in multitasking situations like task switching. In the task-switching paradigm, response-repetition benefits are observed in task repetitions, but response-repetition costs in task switches. This interaction of task repetition (vs. switch) with response repetition (vs. switch) may be explained in terms of task-response binding. In two experiments, we included a task-irrelevant contextual feature in a cued task-switching paradigm using word identification tasks. In Experiment 1, the cue modality could vary between visual and auditory; in Experiment 2, the cue language could vary between English and Spanish, while the target stimulus was always presented visually and in German. We predicted that repeating the contextual feature in the subsequent trial would retrieve the features of the previous trial, even though cue modality or cue language did not afford any response and were not associated with either task. The results showed that response repetition-benefits in task repetitions were observable when the context (i.e., the modality or the language of the cue) repeated but disappeared when the context switched from the previous trial. These results are consistent with context-specific binding and retrieval processes in task switching.https://www.journalofcognition.org/articles/220bindingcontextstimulus modalitystimulus languageresponse-repetition effect |
| spellingShingle | Elena Benini Iring Koch Susanne Mayr Christian Frings Andrea M. Philipp Contextual Features of the Cue Enter Episodic Bindings in Task Switching Journal of Cognition binding context stimulus modality stimulus language response-repetition effect |
| title | Contextual Features of the Cue Enter Episodic Bindings in Task Switching |
| title_full | Contextual Features of the Cue Enter Episodic Bindings in Task Switching |
| title_fullStr | Contextual Features of the Cue Enter Episodic Bindings in Task Switching |
| title_full_unstemmed | Contextual Features of the Cue Enter Episodic Bindings in Task Switching |
| title_short | Contextual Features of the Cue Enter Episodic Bindings in Task Switching |
| title_sort | contextual features of the cue enter episodic bindings in task switching |
| topic | binding context stimulus modality stimulus language response-repetition effect |
| url | https://www.journalofcognition.org/articles/220 |
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