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TASK
Set-shifting task
A task in which participants alternate between two or more judgments typically regarding the same set of stimuli. Accuracy and reaction time are measured for each judgment.

Definition contributed by ALenartowicz about two years ago.


Task records: 6  

attention shift
  • accuracy of participant minus average accuracy of controls
 

set shifting
  • accuracy of participant minus average accuracy of controls
 

goal maintenance
  • accuracy of participant minus average accuracy of controls
 

task switching
  • accuracy of participant minus average accuracy of controls
 
  • perservative errors minus nonperservative errors
 

proactive inhibition
  • perservative errors minus nonperservative errors
 


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Contrasting mechanisms of impaired attentional set-shifting in patients with frontal lobe damage or Parkinson's disease.
Owen AM, Roberts AC, Hodges JR, Summers BA, Polkey CE, Robbins TW
(Brain)
1993 Oct
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Switch detection in preschoolers' cognitive flexibility.
Chevalier N, Wiebe SA, Huber KL, Espy KA
Journal of experimental child psychology (J Exp Child Psychol)
2011 Jul
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