Vandierendonck, A. 1 & Liefooghe, B. 2
1 Department of Experimental Psychology. Ghent University. Ghent, Belgium
2 Department of Experimental-Clinical and Health Psychology. Ghent University. Ghent, Belgium
Previous research regarding the role of congruency of cue and task transitions in task switching has shown that in transition cuing with registration of cue interpretation besides task execution (double registration) reports a cue-task congruency effect in cue interpretation. By varying type and modality of the indication response, the present study aimed to clarify whether the cue-task congruency effect depends on procedural features. In two transition cuing experiments with double registration, the cue interpretation response was either a choice response indicating the task or a simple response indicating when the to-be-performed task is known. Experiment 1 used manual indication responses and observed a congruency effect that occurred in the indication response for the choice-response condition and in the execution response for the simple-response condition with an overall delay of execution responding. Experiment 2 used verbal indication responses and found the same pattern of results, with smaller but still robust congruency effects and no execution delay in the simple-response condition. The findings confirm that the congruency effect is a genuine part of task switching but that it can be augmented by overlaps between the indication and the execution response. Implications for our understanding of task switching more generally are discussed.