Dana, I designed this task to allow for a fast assessment of mental flexibility, akin to a number of executive function tasks. I designed it to be mentally demanding with the aim of being a sensitive RT measure of mental fatigue.
I haven't published anything using this test myself, but some students of mine used this test and have written a technical report including it: https://sites.google.com/site/pebltechnicalreports/home/2012/pebl-technical-report-2012-04 Also, some minimal information is here: http://pebl.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Switcher_Task Notably, the random-switch condition was fairly resistant to practice (unlike the consistent conditions), meaning the switch costs got bigger with practice. and they were sensitive to time-of-day differences, and so could be fairly good measures of attention. > Hello, > > My name is Botezan Adriana-Dana and I have recently graduated a MSc. > in Clinical Neuropcyhology at Leiden University. I am working on a project > now and I am checking the literature on attention tasks and executive > functioning ones. I am interested in finding out more details about the > switcher task you mention on the website. Could you point towards a > certain publication or website were the idea of the test is more > elaborately explained? > > Thank you in advance! > Kind regards, > Dana > Botezan------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > AlienVault Unified Security Management (USM) platform delivers complete > security visibility with the essential security capabilities. Easily and > efficiently configure, manage, and operate all of your security controls > from a single console and one unified framework. Download a free trial. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/alienvault_d2d_______________________________________________ > Pebl-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pebl-list > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ AlienVault Unified Security Management (USM) platform delivers complete security visibility with the essential security capabilities. Easily and efficiently configure, manage, and operate all of your security controls from a single console and one unified framework. Download a free trial. http://p.sf.net/sfu/alienvault_d2d _______________________________________________ Pebl-list mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pebl-list
