15:00 - 16:30
Tue-P14-Poster II-1
Tue-Poster II-1
Room: P14
Episodic Bindings of Abstract Task Sets
Tue-P14-Poster II-101
Presented by: Moritz Schiltenwolf
Moritz Schiltenwolf 1, David Dignath 1, Eliot Hazeltine 2
1 University Tuebingen, 2 University of Iowa
Performing a certain task requires the organization of cognitive processes and related mental representations which can be referred to as 'task set'. Task sets may be organized on the level of concrete perceptual features, such as stimuli or responses, but may also be processed on more abstract levels, independent of immediately perceived features. While research around episodic binding has shown that retrieval of previously bound concrete perceptual features affects task switching performance, it remains unclear whether this extends to task sets processed on an abstract level. In a series of experiments, we use a task switching paradigm that allows us to investigate processing of abstract task sets operating independently from specific stimuli and responses. To test for the effect of bindings between context features and the concurrent abstract task set, we experimentally manipulated visual context. Results indicate preliminary evidence in favor of the hypothesis that abstract task sets are subject to binding and retrieval processes.
Keywords: Binding, Task Switching, Task Sets