The development of anticipatory cognitive control processes in task-switching: An ERP study in children, adolescents, and young adults

作者：Manzi Alberto^*; Nessler Doreen; Czernochowski Daniela; Friedman David

来源：Psychophysiology, 2011, 48(9): 1258-1275.

DOI：10.1111/j.1469-8986.2011.01192.x

• Task-switching
• Mixing costs
• Switching costs
• ERP

To investigate the development of advance task-set updating and reconfiguration, behavioral and event-related potential (ERP) data were recorded in children (9-10 years), adolescents (13-14 years), and young adults (20-27 years) in a cued task-switching paradigm. In pure blocks, the same task was repeated. In mixed blocks, comprised of stay and switch trials, two tasks were intermixed. Age differences were found for stay-pure performance (mixing costs) in the 600-ms but not in the 1200-ms cue-target interval (CTI). Children showed larger reaction time mixing costs than adults. The ERPs suggested that the larger costs were due to delayed anticipatory task-set updating in children. Switch-stay performance decrements (switch costs) were age-invariant in both CTIs. However, ERP data suggested that children reconfigured the task-set on some stay trials, rather than only on switch trials, suggesting the continued maturation of task-set reconfiguration processes.

• 出版日期2011-9