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The arrow of time: Advancing insights into action control from the arrow version of the Eriksen flanker task
- Source :
- Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 83(2), 700-721. Springer New York
- Publication Year :
- 2021
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Abstract
- Since its introduction by B. A. Eriksen and C. W. Eriksen (Perception & Psychophysics, 16, 143–49, 1974), the flanker task has emerged as one of the most important experimental tasks in the history of cognitive psychology. The impact of a seemingly simple task design involving a target stimulus flanked on each side by a few task-irrelevant stimuli is astounding. It has inspired research across the fields of cognitive neuroscience, psychophysiology, neurology, psychiatry, and sports science. In our tribute to Charles W. (“Erik”) Eriksen, we (1) review the seminal papers originating from his lab in the 1970s that launched the paradigmatic task and laid the foundation for studies of action control, (2) describe the inception of the arrow version of the Eriksen flanker task, (3) articulate the conceptual and neural models of action control that emerged from studies of the arrows flanker task, and (4) illustrate the influential role of the arrows flanker task in disclosing developmental trends in action control, fundamental deficits in action control due to neuropsychiatric disorders, and enhanced action control among elite athletes.
- Subjects :
- Linguistics and Language
Perception and action
Sports science
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Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Cognitive neuroscience
Stimulus (physiology)
Article
050105 experimental psychology
Language and Linguistics
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Perception
Psychophysics
Reaction Time
Humans
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
Problem Solving
Inhibition
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Cognitive control and automaticity
05 social sciences
Sensory Systems
Psychophysiology
Arrow
Psychology
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Eriksen flanker task
Cognitive psychology
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 19433921
- Volume :
- 83
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Attention, Perception & Psychophysics
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....1baff67518847ffc3b6bc4fe2360644b