On stopping yourself: Self-relevance facilitates response inhibition
| Autor: | Linn M Persson, C. Neil Macrae, Johanna K. Falbén, Marius Golubickis |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Linguistics and Language
Self Ownership 05 social sciences Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Context (language use) Possession (law) Tone (literature) 050105 experimental psychology Sensory Systems Language and Linguistics Task (project management) Executive Function 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Humans Relevance (law) 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Psychology 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Response inhibition Cognitive psychology |
| Zdroj: | Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics. 83:1416-1423 |
| ISSN: | 1943-393X 1943-3921 |
| Popis: | It is well documented that stimuli associated with the self are easier to process than identical material paired with other people (i.e., self-prioritization effect). Surprisingly, however, relatively little is known about how self-relevance impacts core aspects of executive functioning, notably response inhibition. Accordingly, here we used a stop-signal task to establish how effectively responses toward self-relevant (vs. other-relevant) stimuli can intentionally be inhibited. In the context of personal possession, participants were required to classify stimuli (i.e., pens and pencils) based on ownership (i.e., owned-by-self vs. owned-by-friend/stranger), unless an occasional auditory tone indicated that the response should be withheld. The results revealed the benefits of self-relevance on response inhibition. Compared with items owned by a friend or stranger, responses to self-owned objects were inhibited more efficiently. These findings confirm that self-relevance facilitates executive control. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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