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20551363

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
2010-6-16
pubmed:abstractText
The present study investigated the relative contribution of bottom-up and top-down control to task selection in the voluntary task-switching (VTS) procedure. In order to manipulate the efficiency of top-down control, a concurrent working memory load was imposed during VTS. In three experiments, bottom-up factors, such as stimulus repetitions, repetition of irrelevant information, and stimulus-task associations, were introduced in order to investigate their influence on task selection. We observed that the tendency to repeat tasks was stronger under load, suggesting that top-down control counteracts the automatic tendency to repeat tasks. The results also indicated that task selection can be guided by several elements in the environment, but that only the influence of stimulus repetitions depends on the efficiency of top-down control. The theoretical implications of these findings are discussed within the interplay between top-down and bottom-up control that underlies the voluntary selection of tasks.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jun
pubmed:issn
1531-5320
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:volume
17
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
387-93
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2010
pubmed:articleTitle
Voluntary task switching under load: contribution of top-down and bottom-up factors in goal-directed behavior.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Experimental Psychology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium. jelle.demanet@ugent.be
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't