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SAGE Publications, Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 5(62), p. 850-857, 2009

DOI: 10.1080/17470210802570994

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Short Article: Is Advance Reconfiguration in Voluntary Task Switching Affected by the Design Employed?

Journal article published in 2009 by Baptist Liefooghe, Jelle Demanet, André Vandierendonck ORCID
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.
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Abstract

In task switching, when the amount of preparation time is increased, a reduction in switch cost or RISC effect is observed. This RISC effect is frequently attributed to advance reconfiguration processes. In the explicit task-cueing procedure, RISC effects are observed when varying the preparation time within participants but not when varying the preparation time across participants—a finding suggesting that RISC effects in the explicit task-cueing procedure are restricted to specific designs. The present study investigated RISC effects in voluntary task switching and compared RISC effects in a within-subjects design with RISC effects in a between-subjects design. Our results indicate that RISC effects are present in both designs. We conclude that advance reconfiguration in voluntary task switching is robust.