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Adaptation to conflict frequency without contingency and temporal learning: Evidence from the picture-word interference task
- Source :
- Journal of experimental psychology. Human perception and performance. 45(8)
- Publication Year :
- 2019
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Abstract
- In interference tasks (e.g., Stroop, 1935), the difference between congruent and incongruent latencies (i.e., the "congruency" effect) is larger in trial blocks containing mostly congruent trials than in trial blocks containing mostly incongruent trials (the proportion-congruent [PC] effect). Although the PC effect has typically been interpreted as reflecting adjustments in attention toward/away from the task-irrelevant dimension (i.e., a conflict-adaptation strategy), recent research has suggested alternative accounts based on the learning of either contingencies (i.e., distractor-response associations) or of temporal expectancies (i.e., the typical response speed on previous trials), accounts in which conflict adaptation plays no role. Using the picture-word interference paradigm, we report data from two PC manipulations in which contingency learning was made impossible by using nonrepeated distractors (Experiment 1A) or both nonrepeated distractors and responses (Experiment 1B). The classic PC effect emerged in both experiments. In addition, learning of temporal expectancies could not explain the present PC effects either, as results from trial-level analyses of Experiments 1A and 1B and a nonconflict version of Experiment 1B (Experiment 2) were inconsistent with the predictions of the temporal learning account of PC effects. These results suggest that conflict adaptation remains a credible explanation for PC effects. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved).
- Subjects :
- Adult
Picture-word interference
Adolescent
Proportion-congruent effect
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Adaptation (eye)
Interference (wave propagation)
Temporal learning
050105 experimental psychology
Task (project management)
Conflict, Psychological
Behavioral Neuroscience
Executive Function
Young Adult
Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
Adaptation, Psychological
Humans
Learning
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
Attention
Contingency learning
Conflict adaptation
05 social sciences
Pattern Recognition, Visual
Reading
Psychology
Contingency
Word (computer architecture)
Psychomotor Performance
Cognitive psychology
Stroop effect
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 19391277
- Volume :
- 45
- Issue :
- 8
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of experimental psychology. Human perception and performance
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....ac427d8cdc207bc3962cc809f72ec7bc