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Electrophysiological evidence for cognitive control during conflict processing in visual spatial attention

Auteurs: Stefanie Kehrer, Antje Kraft, Kerstin Irlbacher, Stefan P. Koch, Herbert Hagendorf, Norbert Kathmann, Stephan A. Brandt

Gepubliceerd in: Psychological Research | Uitgave 6/2009

Abstract

Event-related potentials were measured to investigate the role of visual spatial attention mechanisms in conflict processing. We suggested that a more difficult target selection leads to stronger attentional top-down control, thereby reducing the effects of arising conflicts. This hypothesis was tested by varying the selection difficulty in a location negative priming (NP) paradigm. The difficult task resulted in prolonged responses as compared to the easy task. A behavioral NP effect was only evident in the easy task. Psychophysiologically the easy task was associated with reduced parietal N1, enhanced frontocentral N2 and N2pc components and a prolonged P3 latency for the conflict as compared to the control condition. The N2pc effect was also obvious in the difficult task. Additionally frontocentral N2 amplitudes increased and latencies of N2pc and P3 were delayed compared to the easy task. The differences at frontocentral and parietal electrodes are consistent with previous studies ascribing activity in the prefrontal and parietal cortex as the source of top-down attentional control. Thus, we propose that stronger cognitive control is involved in the difficult task, resulting in a reduced behavioral NP conflict.

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In contrast to location NP subjects have to respond to the identity instead of the location of a target in identity NP. In the literature exists a broad diversity between identity and location NP for both behavioral and neurophysiological data (e.g. Connelly & Hasher, 1993; Tipper, Bourque, Anderson & Brehaut, 1989; Mayr, Niedeggen, Buchner & Pietrowsky, 2003; Egner & Hirsch, 2005; Vink, Kahn, Raemaekers & Ramsey, 2005; Gibbons, 2006; Gibbons, Rammsayer & Stahl, 2006; Kathmann, Bogdahn & Endrass 2006; Ruge & Naumann, 2006; Wright et al., 2006; Frings & Groh-Bordin, 2007; Krueger, Fischer, Heinecke & Hagendorf, 2007). For example it could be shown that schizophrenic patients show no or reduced location NP whereas identity NP is not impaired (Hoenig, Hochrein, Müller & Wagner, 2002). Due to these findings and because we are interested in the mechanisms of the visual spatial mechanisms of conflict processing we will focus on results concerning location NP.

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Titel: Electrophysiological evidence for cognitive control during conflict processing in visual spatial attention
Auteurs: Stefanie Kehrer
Antje Kraft
Kerstin Irlbacher
Stefan P. Koch
Herbert Hagendorf
Norbert Kathmann
Stephan A. Brandt
Publicatiedatum: 01-11-2009
Uitgeverij: Springer-Verlag
Gepubliceerd in: Psychological Research / Uitgave 6/2009
Print ISSN: 0340-0727
Elektronisch ISSN: 1430-2772
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-008-0194-y

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