Proactive versus reactive task-set inhibition: Evidence from flanker compatibility effects
| Autor: | David Kuhns, Eric Ruthruff, Mei-Ching Lien |
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| Rok vydání: | 2007 |
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Task switching
Reactive inhibition Lag Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Cognition Stimulus (physiology) behavioral disciplines and activities Developmental psychology Inhibition Psychological Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Reaction Time Developmental and Educational Psychology Humans Psychology psychological phenomena and processes Cognitive psychology |
| Zdroj: | Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. 14:977-983 |
| ISSN: | 1531-5320 1069-9384 |
| Popis: | Two converging tests were used to determine whether people proactively inhibit recently performed tasks when switching to new tasks. A task-cuing paradigm was used. In each trial, the relevant stimulus was accompanied by flankers belonging either to the task performed on the immediately preceding trial (lag 1) or a more distant trial (lag 2 +). If the just-performed task is inhibited when switching to another task, and this inhibition declines across trials, then flanker interference should be smaller with lag 1 flankers than with lag 2 + flankers. Experiment 1, following the methods of Hübner, Dreisbach, Haider, and Kluwe (2003), failed to confirm this prediction. The prediction was confirmed in Experiment 2, however, using a design modified to provide greater incentives for task-set inhibition. The results provide evidence that inhibition can be applied proactively, to reduce the ability of an abandoned task to interfere with the performance of other tasks. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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