@inproceedings{d9f29edcc24c4e808afd8c822bc4fbdf,
title = "Asymmetric Switch Costs as a Function of Task Strength",
abstract = "Several studies reported that it is harder to switch from a difficult task to an easy task than vice versa. Previous studies explain this paradoxical effect in terms of differences in task strength, by letting participants switch between different types of tasks. However, these studies failed to isolate the effects of task strength from task identity. Here, we present a series of experiments in which we systematically varied the strength of two tasks independent of their identity. We adapted a computational model of task switching by Yeung and Monsell (2003) to derive predictions about the magnitude of asymmetric switch costs (ASC) as a function of task strength, and compared predictions from the model to behavioral data. Our results reveal that ASC depend on the overall and relative task strength across the two tasks. ASC can therefore flip directions if the strength of two tasks is reversed, irrespective of their identities.",
keywords = "paradoxical switch cost, task switching, task-set inertia",
author = "Markus Spitzer and Sebastian Musslick and Michael Shvartsman and Amitai Shenhav and Cohen, {Jonathan D.}",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} Cognitive Science Society: Creativity + Cognition + Computation, CogSci 2019.All rights reserved.; 41st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society: Creativity + Cognition + Computation, CogSci 2019 ; Conference date: 24-07-2019 Through 27-07-2019",
year = "2019",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society: Creativity + Cognition + Computation, CogSci 2019",
publisher = "The Cognitive Science Society",
pages = "1070--1076",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society",
}