PMID- 29043435
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20190829
LR  - 20200225
IS  - 1430-2772 (Electronic)
IS  - 0340-0727 (Linking)
VI  - 83
IP  - 5
DP  - 2019 Jul
TI  - How conceptual overlap and modality pairings affect task-switching and mixing 
      costs.
PG  - 1020-1032
LID - 10.1007/s00426-017-0932-0 [doi]
AB  - Manipulating the pairings of stimulus and response modalities has been shown to 
      affect how response selection processes for distinct tasks interact. For example, 
      Stephan and Koch (Psychol Res 75(6):491-498, 2011) found smaller performance 
      costs when participants switched between visual-manual (VM) and auditory-vocal 
      (AV) tasks (modality compatible; MC) compared to between visual-vocal (VV) and 
      auditory-manual (AM) tasks (modality incompatible; MI). However, in the Stephan 
      and Koch study, there was conceptual overlap between one set of stimuli and one 
      set of responses. For the MC pair, these stimuli and responses belonged to the 
      same task, whereas for the MI pair, they belonged to different tasks. To examine 
      how conceptual overlap affected switch and mixing costs, we conducted two 
      experiments. Experiment 1a was a near replication of Stephan and Koch in which 
      conceptual overlap was present in the MC AV task. In contrast, Experiment 1b 
      reduced conceptual overlap within the MC AV task and increased it in the MI VV 
      task. In Experiment 1a, we replicated Stephan and Koch's findings: larger switch 
      costs were observed for the MI pair; in Experiment 1b, we found numerically 
      greater switch costs in the MC condition. In Experiment 2, we reduced conceptual 
      overlap in both tasks and found no effect of modality compatibility on switch 
      costs. However, mixing costs were primarily driven by modality compatibility, 
      regardless of conceptual overlap. These results highlight the different roles 
      that conceptual overlap and modality pairings have on switch and mixing costs.
FAU - Schacherer, Jonathan
AU  - Schacherer J
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-2891-1856
AD  - Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Iowa, W311 Seashore 
      Hall, Iowa City, IA, 52242, USA. jonathan-schacherer@uiowa.edu.
FAU - Hazeltine, Eliot
AU  - Hazeltine E
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-0893-5789
AD  - Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Iowa, W311 Seashore 
      Hall, Iowa City, IA, 52242, USA.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20171017
PL  - Germany
TA  - Psychol Res
JT  - Psychological research
JID - 0435062
SB  - IM
MH  - Acoustic Stimulation
MH  - Cues
MH  - Female
MH  - Humans
MH  - Male
MH  - Photic Stimulation
MH  - *Psychomotor Performance
MH  - Reaction Time
MH  - Young Adult
EDAT- 2017/10/19 06:00
MHDA- 2019/08/30 06:00
CRDT- 2017/10/19 06:00
PHST- 2017/04/04 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2017/10/10 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2017/10/19 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2019/08/30 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2017/10/19 06:00 [entrez]
AID - 10.1007/s00426-017-0932-0 [pii]
AID - 10.1007/s00426-017-0932-0 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Psychol Res. 2019 Jul;83(5):1020-1032. doi: 10.1007/s00426-017-0932-0. Epub 2017 
      Oct 17.