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One thing that separates human beings from the rest of the animal world is our ability to control behavior by referencing internal plans, goals, and rules. This ability, which is crucial to our success in a complex social environment, depends on the purposeful generation of "task sets"--states of mental readiness that allow each of us to engage with the world in a particular way or achieve a particular aim. This book reports the latest research regarding the activation, maintenance, and suppression of task sets. Chapters from many of the world's leading researchers in task switching and cognitive control investigate key issues in the field, from how we select the most relevant task when presented with distracting alternatives, to how we maintain focus on a task ("eyes on the prize") and switch to a new one when our goals or external circumstances change. Chapters also explore the brain structures responsible for these abilities, how they develop during childhood, and whether they decline due to normal aging or neurological disorders. Of interest especially to scholars and students of cognitive psychology, the volume offers thorough, multi-disciplinary coverage of contemporary research and theories concerning this fundamental yet mysterious aspect of human brain function and behavior.

Table of Contents:
Chapter 1 - Task Switching & Cognitive Control: An IntroductionJames A. Grange & George HoughtonChapter 2 - Tasks, Task Sets, and the Mapping Between ThemDarryl W. Schneider & Gordon D. LoganChapter 3 - The Task-Cuing Paradigm: A User's GuideNachshon MeiranChapter 4 - The Mixing Cost as a Measure of Cognitive ControlPaloma Mari-Beffa & Alexander KirkhamChapter 5 - The Extended Runs Procedure and Restart CostErik M. AltmannChapter 6 - Voluntary Task WwitchingCatherine M. Arrington, Kaitlin M. Reiman, & Starla M. WeaverChapter 7 - Inhibitory Control in Task SwitchingMiriam Gade, Stefanie Schuch, Michel Duey, & Iring KochChapter 8 - Models of Cognitive Control in Task SwitchingJames A. Grange & George HoughtonChapter 9 - Event-related Potentials Reveal Multiple Components of Proactive andReactive Control in Task SwitchingFrini Karayanidis & Sharna D. JamadarChapter 10 - Neuroimaging Studies of Task SwitchingFranziska R. Richter & Nick YeungChapter 11 - Task Switching and Executive DysfunctionAbhijit Das & Glenn R. WylieChapter 12 - Task Switching in Psychiatric DisordersSusan M. Ravizza & Ruth E. SaloChapter 13 - Cognitive Flexibility in Childhood and AdolescenceSabine Peters & Eveline A. CroneChapter 14 - Task Switching and AgingJutta Kray & Nicola K. Ferdinand

About the Author :
James A. Grange is Lecturer in Cognitive Psychology at Keele University, UK. His research program focuses on cognitive control during task switching and addresses inhibitory control primarily. George Houghton is Senior Lecturer in Cognitive Psychology at Bangor University, Wales, UK. His research focuses on cognitive control of mental set, mechanisms of serial order in behavior, and computational modeling.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780199921959
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
  • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
  • Height: 236 mm
  • No of Pages: 400
  • Spine Width: 25 mm
  • Width: 157 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0199921954
  • Publisher Date: 19 Jun 2014
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 590 gr


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