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Springer, Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 6(11), p. 1027-1033, 2004

DOI: 10.3758/bf03196732

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Semantic generalization of stimulus-task bindings

Journal article published in 2004 by Florian Waszak, Bernhard Hommel ORCID, Alan Allport
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Abstract

People find it difficult to switch between two tasks, even if they have time to prepare-the so-called residual task shift cost. We studied a switch of tasks from picture naming to word reading, using picture-word Stroop stimuli. Consistent with previous findings, we demonstrate that a large part of the observed task shift cost was due to priming from prior stimulus-response episodes, in which the current task stimulus was encountered in a competing task. We further show that this task-priming effect generalizes to semantically related stimuli, which opens the possibility that most or all of these residual shift costs reflect some sort of generalized proactive interference from previous stimulus-task episodes.