Journal article
Task representation affects the boundaries of behavioral slowing following an error
Attention, perception & psychophysics, Vol.82(5), pp.2315-2326
02/19/2020
DOI: 10.3758/s13414-020-01985-5
PMID: 32077071
Abstract
Researchers have recognized the role that task representation plays in our behavior for many years. However, the specific influence that the structure of one's task representation has on executive functioning has only recently been investigated. Prior research suggests that adjustments of cognitive control are affected by subtle manipulations of aspects of the stimulus-response pairs within and across task sets. This work has focused on examples of cognitive control such as response preparation, dual-task performance, and the congruency sequence effect. The current study investigates the effect of task representation on another example of control, post-error slowing. To determine if factors that influence how people represent a task affect how behavior is adjusted after an error, an adaptive attention-shifting task was developed with multiple task delimiting features. Participants were randomly assigned to a separate task set (two task sets) or an integrated task set (one task set) group. For the separate set group, the task sets switched after each trial. Results showed that only the integrated set group exhibited post-error slowing. This suggests that task representation influences the boundaries of cognitive control adjustments and has implications for our understanding of how control is organized when adjusting to errors in performance.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Task representation affects the boundaries of behavioral slowing following an error
- Creators
- Derek M Smith - Department of Psychology, Northwestern University, 102 Swift Hall: 2029 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA. derek.smith1@northwestern.eduTobin Dykstra - Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences, The University of Iowa, W311 Seashore Hall: 301-323 E Jefferson St, Iowa City, IA, 52242, USAEliot Hazeltine - Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences, The University of Iowa, W311 Seashore Hall: 301-323 E Jefferson St, Iowa City, IA, 52242, USAEric H Schumacher - School of Psychology, Georgia Institute of Technology, J. S. Coon Building: 648 Cherry St NW, Atlanta, GA, 30313, USA. eschu@gatech.edu
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Attention, perception & psychophysics, Vol.82(5), pp.2315-2326
- Publisher
- United States
- DOI
- 10.3758/s13414-020-01985-5
- PMID
- 32077071
- ISSN
- 1943-3921
- eISSN
- 1943-393X
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 02/19/2020
- Academic Unit
- Psychological and Brain Sciences; Iowa Neuroscience Institute
- Record Identifier
- 9984070386602771
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