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Project

The role of exogenous and endogenous factors in voluntary task switching

Outputs and Outcomes

Code

01J07707

Duration

01 January 2007 → 31 December 2011

Funding

Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund

Promotor

Marcel Brass

Research disciplines

Social sciences
- Animal experimental and comparative psychology
- Applied psychology
- Biological and physiological psychology
- Human experimental psychology

Keywords

task switch executive control working memory

Project description

The role of several factors that influence task switching behavior is studied by means of a paradigm in which participatns decide voluntarily when to switch to another task. The role of perceptual factors, prior experience and knowledge and executive factors are studied experimentally.

English

Dutch

English

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