TY - JOUR
T1 - Positive affect facilitates task switching in the dimensional change card sort task
T2 - Implications for the shifting aspect of executive function
AU - Yang, Hwajin
AU - Yang, Sujin
N1 - Funding Information:
Correspondence should be addressed to: Hwajin Yang, School of Social Sciences, Singapore Management University, 90 Stamford Road, Singapore, Singapore. E-mail: hjyang@smu.edu.sg We are grateful to the late Dr Alice M. Isen for her guidance and support throughout this research. We also thank Dr Gesine Dreisbach and anonymous reviewers for their thoughtful comments on an earlier version of the manuscript. This research was supported by a research grant from Singapore Management University conferred on the first author [C242/MSS8S019].
PY - 2014/10
Y1 - 2014/10
N2 - Using the modified Dimensional Change Card Sort task, we examined the influence of positive affect on task switching by inspecting various markers for the costs, including restart cost, switch cost and mixing cost. Given that the executive-control processes that underlie switching performance-i.e., inhibition or shifting-are distinct from the component processes that underlie non-switching performance-i.e., stimulus evaluation, resource allocation or response execution-we hypothesised that if positive affect facilitates task switching via executive-control processes, rather than via component processes, positive affect would reduce both switch and restart costs, but not mixing cost, because both switch and restart costs rely on executive processes, while mixing cost imposes only minimal demands on executive processes. We found beneficial effects of positive affect on both restart and switch costs, but not on mixing costs. These results suggest that positive affect improves switching abilities via executive processes rather than via component processes.
AB - Using the modified Dimensional Change Card Sort task, we examined the influence of positive affect on task switching by inspecting various markers for the costs, including restart cost, switch cost and mixing cost. Given that the executive-control processes that underlie switching performance-i.e., inhibition or shifting-are distinct from the component processes that underlie non-switching performance-i.e., stimulus evaluation, resource allocation or response execution-we hypothesised that if positive affect facilitates task switching via executive-control processes, rather than via component processes, positive affect would reduce both switch and restart costs, but not mixing cost, because both switch and restart costs rely on executive processes, while mixing cost imposes only minimal demands on executive processes. We found beneficial effects of positive affect on both restart and switch costs, but not on mixing costs. These results suggest that positive affect improves switching abilities via executive processes rather than via component processes.
KW - Dimensional change card sort (DCCS)
KW - Mixing cost
KW - Positive affect
KW - Restart cost
KW - Switch cost
KW - Task switching
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U2 - 10.1080/02699931.2013.879053
DO - 10.1080/02699931.2013.879053
M3 - Article
C2 - 24456098
AN - SCOPUS:84905103559
SN - 0269-9931
VL - 28
SP - 1242
EP - 1254
JO - Cognition and Emotion
JF - Cognition and Emotion
IS - 7
ER -