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SUBMITTER: Steyvers M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6731761 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Steyvers Mark M Hawkins Guy E GE Karayanidis Frini F Brown Scott D SD
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20190819 36
An important feature of human cognition is the ability to flexibly and efficiently adapt behavior in response to continuously changing contextual demands. We leverage a large-scale dataset from Lumosity, an online cognitive-training platform, to investigate how cognitive processes involved in cued switching between tasks are affected by level of task practice across the adult lifespan. We develop a computational account of task switching that specifies the temporal dynamics of activating task-re ...[more]