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 …

Switch costs occur whenever participants are asked to switch between two or more task sets.
In a typical task switching experiment, participants have to switch between two task sets …

The voluntary task-switching paradigm requires subjects to select randomly between tasks
and promises to provide a window into executive task selection independent of exogenous …

In the voluntary task switching procedure, subjects choose the task to perform on a series of
bivalent stimuli, requiring top-down control of task switching. Experiments 1–3 contrasted …

The voluntary task switching paradigm allows subjects to choose which task to perform on
each trial in a stimulus environment affording multiple tasks. The present study examined the …

In 4 experiments, participants alternated between different tasks or performed the same task
repeatedly. The tasks for 2 of the experiments required responding to geometric objects in …

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 …

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 …

Task inhibition was explored in two experiments that employed a paradigm in which
participants switched among three tasks. Two tasks required manual choice responses …

Switching between two tasks afforded by the same stimuli results in slower reactions and
more errors on the first stimulus after the task changes. This “switch cost” is reduced, but not …