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Selecting a response in task switching: testing a model of compound cue retrievalDarryl W Schneider
Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University, USA
J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn 35:122-36. 2009..Relations to current theorizing about response congruency effects and models of response selection in task switching are discussed...- Executive control of visual attention in dual-task situationsG D Logan
Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37240, USA
Psychol Rev 108:393-434. 2001..The theory accounts for concurrence cost, set-switching cost, crosstalk between tasks, and the modulation of crosstalk by task set... - Working memory, task switching, and executive control in the task span procedureGordon D Logan
Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37203, USA
J Exp Psychol Gen 133:218-36. 2004..The results suggest there is no trade-off between storage and task switching, which supports some theories of executive control and challenges others... - The left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing: the disruptive effects of attention to the hands in skilled typewritingGordon D Logan
Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37240, USA
Psychol Sci 20:1296-300. 2009..This produces the disruption... - Very clever homunculus: compound stimulus strategies for the explicit task-cuing procedureGordon D Logan
Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37203, USA
Psychon Bull Rev 11:832-40. 2004..The results suggest that subjects responded to the compound of the cue and the target rather than switching task set between trials... - Still clever after all these years: searching for the homunculus in explicitly cued task switchingGordon D Logan
Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37203, USA
J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform 33:978-94. 2007..This article is a response to S. Monsell and G. A. Mizon's challenge that highlights empirical problems with their evidence and reports an experiment that challenges critical assumptions of their theoretical account... - The time it takes to switch attentionGordon D Logan
Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37203, USA
Psychon Bull Rev 12:647-53. 2005..The model fits suggest that cue encoding took 67-74 msec and attention switching took 76-101 msec... - Interpreting instructional cues in task switching procedures: the role of mediator retrievalGordon D Logan
Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37203, USA
J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn 32:347-63. 2006..The results are discussed in terms of the role of mediators in interpreting instructional cues... - Out with the old, in with the new: more valid measures of switch cost and retrieval time in the task span procedureGordon D Logan
Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37203, USA
Psychon Bull Rev 13:139-44. 2006..This measure was more valid than the RT in the memory span condition of Experiment 1, which was used in the original report... - Priming or executive control? Associative priming of cue encoding increases "switch costs" in the explicit task-cuing procedureGordon D Logan
Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37203, USA
Mem Cognit 34:1250-9. 2006.... - What it costs to implement a plan: plan-level and task-level contributions to switch costsGordon D Logan
Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37203, USA
Mem Cognit 35:591-602. 2007..Experiment 4 showed that memory load had no effect on switch costs. The results are discussed in terms of the interaction between plan-level and task-level processing in the implementation of plans... - Cumulative progress in formal theories of attentionGordon D Logan
Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, 37203, USA
Annu Rev Psychol 55:207-34. 2004..The review describes the classical similarity-choice and signal-detection theories and relates them to current theories of categorization, Garner tasks, visual search, cuing procedures, task switching, and strategy choice... - An instance theory of attention and memoryGordon D Logan
Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37203, USA
Psychol Rev 109:376-400. 2002..Attention selects objects by categorizing them; objects are categorized by attending to them. ITAM incorporates each of its ancestors as a special case, so it inherits their successes... - Subitizing and similarity: toward a pattern-matching theory of enumerationGordon D Logan
Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37203, USA
Psychon Bull Rev 10:676-82. 2003..An analysis based on multidimensional scaling suggested that numerosity could be retrieved accurately for displays of 1-3 dots, but not for displays of 4-10 dots... - Parallel memory retrieval in dual-task situations: II. Episodic memoryG D Logan
Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37240, USA
J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn 27:668-85. 2001..This priming is inconsistent with discrete serial retrieval and consistent with parallel retrieval... - Simon-type effects: chronometric evidence for keypress schemata in typewritingGordon D Logan
Department of Psychology, Nashville, Tennessee 73203, USA
J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform 29:741-57. 2003..The results are consistent with D. E. Rumelhart and D. A. Norman's (1982) theory of typewriting... - Clever homunculus: is there an endogenous act of control in the explicit task-cuing procedure?Gordon D Logan
Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37203, USA
J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform 29:575-99. 2003..The results suggest that the explicit task-cuing procedure does not require an endogenous act of control... - Cognitive illusions of authorship reveal hierarchical error detection in skilled typistsGordon D Logan
Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37203, USA
Science 330:683-6. 2010..This dissociation suggests two error-detection processes: one sensitive to the appearance of the screen and the other sensitive to keystrokes... - Automatic and controlled response inhibition: associative learning in the go/no-go and stop-signal paradigmsFrederick Verbruggen
Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37203
J Exp Psychol Gen 137:649-72. 2008..Thus, the results suggest that the two paradigms are not equivalent because they allow different kinds of response inhibition... - Proactive adjustments of response strategies in the stop-signal paradigmFrederick Verbruggen
Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37203, USA
J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform 35:835-54. 2009..Furthermore, the results show that subjects can make proactive response-strategy adjustments on a trial-by-trial basis, suggesting a flexible cognitive system that can proactively adjust itself in changing environments... - Automaticity of cognitive control: goal priming in response-inhibition paradigmsFrederick Verbruggen
Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA
J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn 35:1381-8. 2009..Stop performance was slower for GO than for ### or STOP. These findings suggest that task goals can be primed and that response inhibition and executive control can be influenced by automatic processing... - Do you know where your fingers have been? Explicit knowledge of the spatial layout of the keyboard in skilled typistsXianyun Liu
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37203, USA
Mem Cognit 38:474-84. 2010..The two experiments suggest that skilled typists have poor explicit knowledge of key locations. The results are interpreted in terms of a model with two hierarchical parts in the system controlling typewriting... - Voluntary task switching: chasing the elusive homunculusCatherine M Arrington
Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University, 111 21st Avenue South, Nashville, TN 37203, USA
J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn 31:683-702. 2005..The degree to which task switching procedures capture top-down versus bottom-up processes may depend on the extent of environmental support provided by the procedure... - Influence of history on saccade countermanding performance in humans and macaque monkeysErik E Emeric
Center for Integrative and Cognitive Neuroscience, Vanderbilt Vision Research Center, Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University, 301 Wilson Hall, 111, 21st Avenue South, Nashville, TN 37203, USA
Vision Res 47:35-49. 2007.... - The target of task switchingDarryl W Schneider
Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Can J Exp Psychol 64:129-33. 2010..In four experiments that varied the degree to which words and images were mixed together, no differences in switch costs were observed. These results support the idea that categorical target representations are central to task switching... - Retrieving information from a hierarchical planDarryl W Schneider
Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37203, USA
J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn 33:1076-91. 2007..In tandem, the empirical data and modeling work provide deeper insight into the representation of and access to information in memory that comprises a plan for guiding behavior... - How to stop and change a response: the role of goal activation in multitaskingFrederick Verbruggen
Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37203, USA
J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform 34:1212-28. 2008.... - Long-term aftereffects of response inhibition: memory retrieval, task goals, and cognitive controlFrederick Verbruggen
Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37203, USA
J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform 34:1229-35. 2008..On the basis of these findings, the authors concluded that cognitive control can rely on both memory retrieval and executive processes... - Object-based attention in Chinese readers of Chinese words: beyond Gestalt principlesXingshan Li
Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37203, USA
Psychon Bull Rev 15:945-9. 2008..Because there were no bottom-up factors that distinguished the words, these results showed that objects defined by subjects' knowledge--in this case, lexical information--can also constrain the deployment of attention... - Episodic contributions to sequential control: learning from a typist's touchMatthew J C Crump
Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University, Wilson Hall, 111 21st Avenue South, Nashville, TN 37203, USA
J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform 36:662-72. 2010..The finding that recent episodic experience with typing particular words and letters influences skilled typing performance holds widespread implications for theories of typing, sequence learning, and motor control... - Contextual control over task-set retrievalMatthew J C Crump
Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University, 633 Wilson Hall, 111 21st Ave South, Nashville, TN 37203, USA
Atten Percept Psychophys 72:2047-53. 2010..We discuss the notion that contextual information provides rapid, unconscious control over the extent to which prior task-set representations are retrieved in the service of guiding online performance... - Hierarchical control and skilled typing: evidence for word-level control over the execution of individual keystrokesMatthew J C Crump
Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37203, USA
J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn 36:1369-80. 2010..This suggests that word-level information causes parallel activation of constituent keystrokes, consistent with hierarchical processing. The role of hierarchical processing in typing and routine action is discussed... - Intact associative learning in patients with schizophrenia: evidence from a Go/NoGo paradigmAustin A Woolard
Department of Psychiatry, Vanderbilt University, 1601 23rd Avenue South, Nashville, TN 37212 3133, USA
Schizophr Res 122:131-5. 2010..In the present study, we investigated the effect of associative learning during a Go/NoGo task in healthy controls subjects and patients with schizophrenia... - Warning: This keyboard will deconstruct--the role of the keyboard in skilled typewritingMatthew J C Crump
Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37203, USA
Psychon Bull Rev 17:394-9. 2010..We argue that the expert knowledge mediating action control emerges during online interaction with the physical environment... - Defining task-set reconfiguration: the case of reference point switchingDarryl W Schneider
Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37203, USA
Psychon Bull Rev 14:118-25. 2007..We discuss how our approach can be generalized to define reconfiguration more clearly in other task-switching situations... - Testing the semantic differential as a model of task processes with the implicit association testMaggie J Xiong
Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37203, USA
Mem Cognit 34:1452-63. 2006.... - Task switching versus cue switching: using transition cuing to disentangle sequential effects in task-switching performanceDarryl W Schneider
Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37203, USA
J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn 33:370-8. 2007..Methodological and theoretical implications of these findings for research on task switching are discussed... - Priming cue encoding by manipulating transition frequency in explicitly cued task switchingDarryl W Schneider
Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37203, USA
Psychon Bull Rev 13:145-51. 2006..Interpretations of our findings based on automatic priming from memory retrieval of past transitions and strategic priming from transition expectancies are discussed... - Modeling task switching without switching tasks: a short-term priming account of explicitly cued performanceDarryl W Schneider
Departmentof Psychology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37203, USA
J Exp Psychol Gen 134:343-67. 2005.... - Episodic and semantic components of the compound-stimulus strategy in the explicit task-cuing procedureCatherine M Arrington
Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37203, USA
Mem Cognit 32:965-78. 2004..We found the same effects with all target set sizes. The results are consistent with use of a semantic compound-stimulus strategy... - The cost of a voluntary task switchCatherine M Arrington
Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37203, USA
Psychol Sci 15:610-5. 2004..These results show costs associated with a voluntary task switch, when subjects must actively control the choice of the task to be performed... - Repetition priming mediated by task similarity in semantic classificationMaggie J Xiong
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37209, USA
Mem Cognit 31:1009-20. 2003..Consistent with the transfer-appropriate processing framework, repetition priming in semantic classifications was highly task specific, decreasing with increasing distance between classification scales... - Inhibitory control in mind and brain: an interactive race model of countermanding saccadesLeanne Boucher
Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37221, USA
Psychol Rev 114:376-97. 2007.... - Hierarchical control of cognitive processes: switching tasks in sequencesDarryl W Schneider
Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37203, USA
J Exp Psychol Gen 135:623-40. 2006..These findings resonate with past research on motor programs and serial memory and provide new insights into the concepts of task set and control... - Balancing cognitive demands: control adjustments in the stop-signal paradigmPatrick G Bissett
Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37240, USA
J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn 37:392-404. 2011..This suggests that more global manipulations encompassing many trials affect post-stop-signal adjustments... - Models of response inhibition in the stop-signal and stop-change paradigmsFrederick Verbruggen
Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37203, USA
Neurosci Biobehav Rev 33:647-61. 2009..We present evidence that favors the independent horse-race model but also some evidence that challenges the model. We end with a discussion of recent models that elaborate the role of a stop process in inhibiting a response... - After-effects of goal shifting and response inhibition: a comparison of the stop-change and dual-task paradigmsFrederick Verbruggen
Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37203, USA
Q J Exp Psychol (Hove) 61:1151-9. 2008.... - Response inhibition in the stop-signal paradigmFrederick Verbruggen
Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37203, USA
Trends Cogn Sci 12:418-24. 2008.... - STOP-IT: Windows executable software for the stop-signal paradigmFrederick Verbruggen
Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37203, USA
Behav Res Methods 40:479-83. 2008..STOP-IT and ANALYZE-IT are completely based on free software, are distributed under the GNU General Public License, and are available at the personal Web sites of the first two authors or at expsy.ugent.be/tscope/stop.html... - A memory-based account of automatic numerosity processingJessica M Choplin
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
Mem Cognit 33:17-28. 2005..This finding suggests that size congruity effects can be produced without comparison algorithms... - Stopping eye and hand movements: are the processes independent?Leanne Boucher
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37203, USA
Percept Psychophys 69:785-801. 2007..The probability and latency of signal respond eye and hand movements corresponded to predictions of Logan and Cowan's (1984) race model applied to each effector independently... - Converging evidence for a fronto-basal-ganglia network for inhibitory control of action and cognitionAdam R Aron
Department of Psychology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, USA
J Neurosci 27:11860-4. 2007 - Restraint and cancellation: multiple inhibition deficits in attention deficit hyperactivity disorderRussell Schachar
Psychiatry Research Unit, Department of Psychiatry, Brain and Behavior Programme, Research Institute, The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, 555 University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
J Abnorm Child Psychol 35:229-38. 2007..We conclude that ADHD is associated with deficits in both restraint and cancellation subcomponents of inhibition... - The development of selective inhibitory control across the life spanAnne-Claude Bedard
The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada
Dev Neuropsychol 21:93-111. 2002..Findings are discussed in regard to the decay and maturation of selective inhibitory control across the life span... - Reduced response readiness delays stop signal inhibitionWery P M van den Wildenberg
Department of Psychology, Developmental Psychology, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Acta Psychol (Amst) 111:155-69. 2002..These findings were taken to suggest that reduced readiness gives rise to more forceful responses that are then more difficult to inhibit... - Horse-race model simulations of the stop-signal procedureGuido P H Band
Department of Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, Leiden University, PO Box 9555, 2300 RB Leiden, The Netherlands
Acta Psychol (Amst) 112:105-42. 2003..The simulations indicate that, under most conditions, the latency, but not variability, of response inhibition can be reliably estimated... - Parallel response selection in dual-task situationsScott Watter
Department of Psychology, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada
Percept Psychophys 68:254-77. 2006..Accommodating these data while preserving the essential bottleneck character of RSB theory may be possible but may also alter the very nature of the bottleneck itself... - Separating cue encoding from target processing in the explicit task-cuing procedure: are there "true" task switch effects?Catherine M Arrington
Lehigh University
J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn 33:484-502. 2007..Implications for the authors' past modeling of task-switching performance are discussed... - Short-term aftereffects of response inhibition: repetition priming or between-trial control adjustments?Frederick Verbruggen
Department of Experimental Psychology, Ghent University
J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform 34:413-26. 2008..Based on these results, we suggest that the aftereffects of successful response inhibition are primarily due to repetition priming, although there was evidence for between-trial control adjustments when inhibition failed... - Inhibitory attentional control in patients with frontal lobe damageMariana Dimitrov
Cognitive Neuroscience Section, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bldg. 10, Room 5C205, 10 Center Drive, MSC 1440, Bethesda, MD 20892-1440, USA
Brain Cogn 52:258-70. 2003..The data suggest that the specific inhibitory processes evaluated by these two tests are, in general, spared in patients with focal frontal lobe lesions or frontal lobe degeneration... - Evidence for an error monitoring deficit in attention deficit hyperactivity disorderRussell J Schachar
Brain and Behavior Program, Research Institute, and Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada
J Abnorm Child Psychol 32:285-93. 2004....
Research Grants
- Modeling the Role of Priming in Executive ControlGordon Logan; Fiscal Year: 2009..The first aim will establish the validity of the model, the second will establish its limits and set the stage for a general model of executive control. ..
- Modeling the Role of Priming in Executive ControlGordon Logan; Fiscal Year: 2007..The first aim will establish the validity of the model, the second will establish its limits and set the stage for a general model of executive control. ..