期刊
BRAIN RESEARCH
卷 1105, 期 -, 页码 61-72出版社
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2006.02.027
关键词
executive control
Ensuring that behavior remains appropriate over time requires dynamic, flexible control. We used the task-switching procedure to investigate the mechanisms whereby advance information is used to control behavior under conditions of frequently changing task-rules. The color of target stimuli signaled which task-set (or behavioral 'rule') was required on each trial. We provided different forms of advance information in two conditions and found a double dissociation in their effects: visual precues ('precueing') facilitated task-switching, whereas a fixed task-sequence ('predictability') facilitated task-repetition. In addition, precueing was associated with a late parietal positive ERP which preceded target onset, whereas predictability produced an increase in the target-locked centro-parietal P3b ERP. We suggest that these results indicate the activity of two distinct mechanisms. The first, driven by a task-cue and indexed by the late parietal positivity, may drive efficient task-performance on precued switch trials but occurs too late on non-precued switch trials to index an anticipatory task-set reconfiguration process. The second may constitute active consolidation or maintenance of a particular task-set which occurs at least one trial ahead, when task-repetitions are predictable, and results in facilitation of target stimulus evaluation. (c) 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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