PEP Does Not Dispense with but Implements Task-Set Reconfiguration. Can It Handle Phenomena More Diagnostic of Endogenous Control?

Stephen Monsell; Ian McLaren

doi:10.5334/joc.109

Abstract

Invited commentary on Schmidt, Liefooghe, and De Houwer (2020) An episodic model of task switching effects: erasing the homunculus from memory. Journal of Cognition.

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PEP Does Not Dispense with but Implements Task-Set Reconfiguration. Can It Handle Phenomena More Diagnostic of Endogenous Control?

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