Lorne Farovitch, Carol Padden, Edwin vanWijngaarden, Benjamin Miller, Brian Leydet, Timothy Dye
Attitudes and experiences regarding preventive strategies for the deaf population in Western New York
PLOS global public health
taskswitching experiments shown switch cost poorer performance task switches repetitions smaller probability switch high eg 075 low eg 025 theoretical accounts explain effect terms topdown control deployed advance task cue precue reconfiguration tested accounts manipulating time available onset cue responsecue interval rci reasoning topdown precue reconfiguration requires time therefore effect increase rci participants heard man woman simultaneously speaking number words categorised number 5 vs 5 spoken voice specified pictorial genderrelated cue presented rci 100 ms 2200 ms target voice switched probability 025 075 separate sessions experiment 1 rts revealed large effect switch probability switch cost short rci increase long rci errors hinted increase receive clear statistical support disconfirmed direct better powered replication experiment 2 fully confirmed rt pattern experiment 1 thus effect switch probability switch cost required littleno time following response emerge already full magnitude short rci challenging accounts assume phasic deployment topdown taskset control advance cue