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Selective attention and internal constraints: There is more to the flanker effect than biased contingencies
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Selective attention and internal constraints: There is more to the flanker effect than biased contingencies

J. Toby Mordkoff
Converging operations in the study of visual selective attention, pp.483-502
American Psychological Association
1996
DOI: 10.1037/10187-018

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Abstract

[visual] selective-attention tasks . . . have shown that performance depends not only on the task-relevant target, but also on the task irrelevant flankers / this pattern of results, which demonstrates a failure of selective attention, is typically referred to as the flanker effect study examined selective-attention performance from the perspective of someone who is particularly fond of internal constraints / it was first shown that biased contingencies have been included in nearly all published demonstrations of the flanker effect / showed that when these contingencies are manipulated, the magnitude of the flanker effect is altered as well / similar manipulations of the contingencies in other selective-attention tasks have revealed the same pattern / suggest that the flanker effect of selective attention-like certain effects of divided attention . . . may be entirely due to internal constraints / found that when the crucial contingency is set to zero (and other contingencies are zero or biased against the effect), a significant flanker effect is still observed / [Ss were undergraduate students] (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2009 APA, all rights reserved)
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