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Is Your Color My Color? Dividing the Labor of the Stroop Task Between Co-actors

Performing a task with other actors involves two opposing forces, division of labor between co-acting individuals and integration of divided parts of the task into a shared mental representation (co-representation). Previous studies have focused primarily on the integration of task representations a...

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Autores principales: Yamaguchi, Motonori, Clarke, Emma L., Egan, Danny L.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6090138/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30131747
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01407
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description Performing a task with other actors involves two opposing forces, division of labor between co-acting individuals and integration of divided parts of the task into a shared mental representation (co-representation). Previous studies have focused primarily on the integration of task representations and limited attention has paid to the division of labor. The present study devised a test of the integration and the division in a joint task setting. A joint version of the Stroop task was developed, in which pairs of actors were assigned different sets of target colors. If the actors integrate their co-actor’s task, the colors assigned to their co-actor should be represented as if they were the actor’s own target colors; the Stroop effect should be as large when distractor color words denote their co-actor’s target colors as when these words denote the actor’s own target colors. If the actors divide the labor of the Stroop task, the colors assigned to their partner should be represented as non-target colors; the Stroop effect should be smaller when the distractor color words denote the co-actor’s target colors than when these words denote the actor’s own target colors. The results of response time did not provide clear support for either position, while those of response accuracy supported the division of labor. Possible cognitive mechanisms that support the division of labor and the integration of task representation are discussed.
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spelling pubmed-60901382018-08-21 Is Your Color My Color? Dividing the Labor of the Stroop Task Between Co-actors Yamaguchi, Motonori Clarke, Emma L. Egan, Danny L. Front Psychol Psychology Performing a task with other actors involves two opposing forces, division of labor between co-acting individuals and integration of divided parts of the task into a shared mental representation (co-representation). Previous studies have focused primarily on the integration of task representations and limited attention has paid to the division of labor. The present study devised a test of the integration and the division in a joint task setting. A joint version of the Stroop task was developed, in which pairs of actors were assigned different sets of target colors. If the actors integrate their co-actor’s task, the colors assigned to their co-actor should be represented as if they were the actor’s own target colors; the Stroop effect should be as large when distractor color words denote their co-actor’s target colors as when these words denote the actor’s own target colors. If the actors divide the labor of the Stroop task, the colors assigned to their partner should be represented as non-target colors; the Stroop effect should be smaller when the distractor color words denote the co-actor’s target colors than when these words denote the actor’s own target colors. The results of response time did not provide clear support for either position, while those of response accuracy supported the division of labor. Possible cognitive mechanisms that support the division of labor and the integration of task representation are discussed. Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-08-06 /pmc/articles/PMC6090138/ /pubmed/30131747 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01407 Text en Copyright © 2018 Yamaguchi, Clarke and Egan. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Clarke, Emma L.
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Is Your Color My Color? Dividing the Labor of the Stroop Task Between Co-actors
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title_full Is Your Color My Color? Dividing the Labor of the Stroop Task Between Co-actors
title_fullStr Is Your Color My Color? Dividing the Labor of the Stroop Task Between Co-actors
title_full_unstemmed Is Your Color My Color? Dividing the Labor of the Stroop Task Between Co-actors
title_short Is Your Color My Color? Dividing the Labor of the Stroop Task Between Co-actors
title_sort is your color my color? dividing the labor of the stroop task between co-actors
topic Psychology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6090138/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30131747
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01407
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