Examining the cognitive processes underlying resumption costs in task-interruption contexts: Decay or inhibition of suspended task goals?
To examine whether an ongoing primary task is inhibited when switching to an interruption task, we implemented the n − 2 backward inhibition paradigm into a task-interruption setting. In two experiments, subjects performed two primary tasks (block-wise manipulation) consisting of a predefined sequen...
| Publicado en: | Memory & Cognition Vol. 52; no. 2; pp. 271 - 285 |
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