Task Switching and Cognitive Control (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Grange, James; Houghton, George

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

One thing that separates human beings from the rest of the animal world is our ability to control behavior by referencing internal plans, goals, and rules. This ability, which is crucial to our success in a complex social environment, depends on the purposeful generation of "task sets"--states of mental readiness that allow each of us to engage with the world in a particular way or achieve a particular aim. This book reports the latest research regarding the activation, maintenance, and suppression of task sets. Chapters from many of the world's leading researchers in task switching and cognitive control investigate key issues in the field, from how we select the most relevant task when presented with distracting alternatives, to how we maintain focus on a task ("eyes on the prize") and switch to a new one when our goals or external circumstances change. Chapters also explore the brain structures responsible for these abilities, how they develop during childhood, and whether they decline due to normal aging or neurological disorders. Of interest especially to scholars and students of cognitive psychology, the volume offers thorough, multi-disciplinary coverage of contemporary research and theories concerning this fundamental yet mysterious aspect of human brain function and behavior.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. April 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780199921966
• Artikelnr.: 41007084

Autorenporträt

James A. Grange is Lecturer in Cognitive Psychology at Keele University, UK. His research program focuses on cognitive control during task switching and addresses inhibitory control primarily. George Houghton is Senior Lecturer in Cognitive Psychology at Bangor University, Wales, UK. His research focuses on cognitive control of mental set, mechanisms of serial order in behavior, and computational modeling.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 - Task Switching and Cognitive Control: An Introduction
James A. Grange and George Houghton
Chapter 2 - Tasks, Task Sets, and the Mapping Between Them
Darryl W. Schneider and Gordon D. Logan
Chapter 3 - The Task-Cuing Paradigm: A User's Guide
Nachshon Meiran
Chapter 4 - The Mixing Cost as a Measure of Cognitive Control
Paloma Mari-Beffa and Alexander Kirkham
Chapter 5 - The Extended Runs Procedure and Restart Cost
Erik M. Altmann
Chapter 6 - Voluntary Task Wwitching
Catherine M. Arrington, Kaitlin M. Reiman, and Starla M. Weaver
Chapter 7 - Inhibitory Control in Task Switching
Miriam Gade, Stefanie Schuch, Michel Duey, and Iring Koch
Chapter 8 - Models of Cognitive Control in Task Switching
James A. Grange and George Houghton
Chapter 9 - Event-related Potentials Reveal Multiple Components of Proactive and
Reactive Control in Task Switching
Frini Karayanidis and Sharna D. Jamadar
Chapter 10 - Neuroimaging Studies of Task Switching
Franziska R. Richter and Nick Yeung
Chapter 11 - Task Switching and Executive Dysfunction
Abhijit Das and Glenn R. Wylie
Chapter 12 - Task Switching in Psychiatric Disorders
Susan M. Ravizza and Ruth E. Salo
Chapter 13 - Cognitive Flexibility in Childhood and Adolescence
Sabine Peters and Eveline A. Crone
Chapter 14 - Task Switching and Aging
Jutta Kray and Nicola K. Ferdinand