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Event coding, executive control, and task-switching

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 November 2002

Nachshon Meiran
Affiliation:
Department of Behavioral Sciences and Zlotowski Center for Neuroscience, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel, 84105 nmeiran@bgumail.bgu.ac.il http://www.bgu.ac.il/beh/nachshon.html

Abstract

Like the Theory of Event Coding (TEC), theories of executive functions depict cognition as a flexible and goal-directed system rather than a reflex-like one. Research on task-switching, a dominant paradigm in executive control, has revealed complex and some apparently counterintuitive results. Many of these are readily explained by assuming, like TEC, that cognitive control is based on selecting information from commensurate representations of stimuli and actions.

Type
Brief Report
Copyright
© 2001 Cambridge University Press

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