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Farey Trees Explain Sequential Effects in Choice Response Time

The latencies of successive two-alternative, forced-choice response times display intricately patterned sequential effects, or dependencies. They vary as a function of particular trial-histories, and in terms of the order and identity of previously presented stimuli and registered responses. This ar...

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Autores principales: Annand, Colin T., Fleming, Sheila M., Holden, John G.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8010006/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33815133
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fphys.2021.611145
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description The latencies of successive two-alternative, forced-choice response times display intricately patterned sequential effects, or dependencies. They vary as a function of particular trial-histories, and in terms of the order and identity of previously presented stimuli and registered responses. This article tests a novel hypothesis that sequential effects are governed by dynamic principles, such as those entailed by a discrete sine-circle map adaptation of the Haken Kelso Bunz (HKB) bimanual coordination model. The model explained the sequential effects expressed in two classic sequential dependency data sets. It explained the rise of a repetition advantage, the acceleration of repeated affirmative responses, in tasks with faster paces. Likewise, the model successfully predicted an alternation advantage, the acceleration of interleaved affirmative and negative responses, when a task’s pace slows and becomes more variable. Detailed analyses of five studies established oscillatory influences on sequential effects in the context of balanced and biased trial presentation rates, variable pacing, progressive and differential cognitive loads, and dyadic performance. Overall, the empirical patterns revealed lawful oscillatory constraints governing sequential effects in the time-course and accuracy of performance across a broad continuum of recognition and decision activities.
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spelling pubmed-80100062021-04-01 Farey Trees Explain Sequential Effects in Choice Response Time Annand, Colin T. Fleming, Sheila M. Holden, John G. Front Physiol Physiology The latencies of successive two-alternative, forced-choice response times display intricately patterned sequential effects, or dependencies. They vary as a function of particular trial-histories, and in terms of the order and identity of previously presented stimuli and registered responses. This article tests a novel hypothesis that sequential effects are governed by dynamic principles, such as those entailed by a discrete sine-circle map adaptation of the Haken Kelso Bunz (HKB) bimanual coordination model. The model explained the sequential effects expressed in two classic sequential dependency data sets. It explained the rise of a repetition advantage, the acceleration of repeated affirmative responses, in tasks with faster paces. Likewise, the model successfully predicted an alternation advantage, the acceleration of interleaved affirmative and negative responses, when a task’s pace slows and becomes more variable. Detailed analyses of five studies established oscillatory influences on sequential effects in the context of balanced and biased trial presentation rates, variable pacing, progressive and differential cognitive loads, and dyadic performance. Overall, the empirical patterns revealed lawful oscillatory constraints governing sequential effects in the time-course and accuracy of performance across a broad continuum of recognition and decision activities. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-03-17 /pmc/articles/PMC8010006/ /pubmed/33815133 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fphys.2021.611145 Text en Copyright © 2021 Annand, Fleming and Holden. 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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Farey Trees Explain Sequential Effects in Choice Response Time
title Farey Trees Explain Sequential Effects in Choice Response Time
title_full Farey Trees Explain Sequential Effects in Choice Response Time
title_fullStr Farey Trees Explain Sequential Effects in Choice Response Time
title_full_unstemmed Farey Trees Explain Sequential Effects in Choice Response Time
title_short Farey Trees Explain Sequential Effects in Choice Response Time
title_sort farey trees explain sequential effects in choice response time
topic Physiology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8010006/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33815133
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fphys.2021.611145
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