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Predictability reduces event file retrieval
There is growing consensus that stimulus–response bindings (event files) play a central role in human action control. Here, we investigated how the integration and the retrieval of event files are affected by the predictability of stimulus components of event files. We used the distractor–response b...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10167154/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36577916 http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13414-022-02637-6 |
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author | Schmalbrock, Philip Hommel, Bernhard Münchau, Alexander Beste, Christian Frings, Christian |
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description | There is growing consensus that stimulus–response bindings (event files) play a central role in human action control. Here, we investigated how the integration and the retrieval of event files are affected by the predictability of stimulus components of event files. We used the distractor–response binding paradigm, in which nominally task-irrelevant distractors are repeated or alternated from a prime to a probe display. The typical outcome of these kinds of tasks is that the effects of distractor repetition and response repetition interact: Performance is worse if the distractor repeats but the response does not, or vice versa. This partial-repetition effect was reduced when the distractor was highly predictable (Experiment 1). Separate manipulations of distractor predictability in the prime and probe trial revealed that this pattern was only replicated if the probe distractors were predictable (Experiment 2b, 3), but not if prime distractors were predictable (Experiment 2a). This suggests that stimulus predictability does not affect the integration of distractor information into event files, but the retrieval of these files when one or more of the integrated features are repeated. We take our findings to support theoretical claims that integration and retrieval of event files might differ concerning their sensitivity to top-down factors. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.3758/s13414-022-02637-6. |
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spelling | pubmed-101671542023-05-10 Predictability reduces event file retrieval Schmalbrock, Philip Hommel, Bernhard Münchau, Alexander Beste, Christian Frings, Christian Atten Percept Psychophys Article There is growing consensus that stimulus–response bindings (event files) play a central role in human action control. Here, we investigated how the integration and the retrieval of event files are affected by the predictability of stimulus components of event files. We used the distractor–response binding paradigm, in which nominally task-irrelevant distractors are repeated or alternated from a prime to a probe display. The typical outcome of these kinds of tasks is that the effects of distractor repetition and response repetition interact: Performance is worse if the distractor repeats but the response does not, or vice versa. This partial-repetition effect was reduced when the distractor was highly predictable (Experiment 1). Separate manipulations of distractor predictability in the prime and probe trial revealed that this pattern was only replicated if the probe distractors were predictable (Experiment 2b, 3), but not if prime distractors were predictable (Experiment 2a). This suggests that stimulus predictability does not affect the integration of distractor information into event files, but the retrieval of these files when one or more of the integrated features are repeated. We take our findings to support theoretical claims that integration and retrieval of event files might differ concerning their sensitivity to top-down factors. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.3758/s13414-022-02637-6. Springer US 2022-12-28 2023 /pmc/articles/PMC10167154/ /pubmed/36577916 http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13414-022-02637-6 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Article Schmalbrock, Philip Hommel, Bernhard Münchau, Alexander Beste, Christian Frings, Christian Predictability reduces event file retrieval |
title | Predictability reduces event file retrieval |
title_full | Predictability reduces event file retrieval |
title_fullStr | Predictability reduces event file retrieval |
title_full_unstemmed | Predictability reduces event file retrieval |
title_short | Predictability reduces event file retrieval |
title_sort | predictability reduces event file retrieval |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10167154/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36577916 http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13414-022-02637-6 |
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