Research on task switching and dual-task performance has spawned two literatures that
have, to a surprising extent, developed independently. This tutorial reviews the principal …

The task-switching paradigm is being increasingly used as a tool for studying cognitive
control and task coordination. Different procedural variations have been developed. They …

In task-switching experiments with three tasks, the relative cost of an N–2 task repetition
(task sequence ABA) compared to a task switch (task sequence CBA) is referred to as N–2 …

The measurement of “switch costs” is held to be of interest because, as is widely believed,
they may reflect the control processes that are engaged when subjects switch between two …

Everyday life requires frequent shifts between cognitive tasks. Research reviewed in this
article probes the control processes that reconfigure mental resources for a change of task …

Residual switch costs are performance costs associated with a shift of task that persist even
when there is ample time to prepare in advance for the new task. I present a mixture-model …

Decay of task-set activation, as commonly assumed in models of task switching, has been
thought to be indexed by manipulating the response-to-cue interval (RCI) in a task-cuing …

The task-switching paradigm offers enormous possibilities to study cognitive control as well
as task interference. The current review provides an overview of recent research on both …

Recent research on task switching has paid little attention to how tasks are represented and
how the relations between task representations might affect the executive processes …

Task-switching paradigms are widely used to study executive control. However, standard
paradigms may not require active control to switch tasks. We examined voluntary task …