hendel-conflicting-present-past-gerund

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Created 2026-08-25T02:58:04+00:00

In the conflicting-tasks experiment, the Present→Past to Gerund transition yields 0.96 Regular accuracy and 0.95 Conflicting accuracy.

Summary

In the conflicting-tasks test, the Present-to-Past-to-Gerund transition is handled almost perfectly in both the standard and the interference conditions, with only a one-hundredth gap between them. This means that particular sequence of task switches is effectively immune to the conflict effect, making it a reliable baseline against which harder transitions can be compared.