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Gepubliceerd in: Psychological Research 4/2014

01-07-2014 | Original Article

Going, going, gone? Proactive control prevents the congruency sequence effect from rapid decay

Auteurs: W. Duthoo, E. L. Abrahamse, S. Braem, W. Notebaert

Gepubliceerd in: Psychological Research | Uitgave 4/2014

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Abstract

The congruency sequence effect, the finding of a reduced congruency effect following incongruent trials in conflict tasks, has received considerable attention in the research on cognitive control over the last two decades. This effect can reflect either the expectancy-guided, preparatory biasing of attention in anticipation of the upcoming stimulus (i.e. proactive control), or the phasic enhancement of the attentional set in response to conflict on the previous trial (i.e. reactive control). A recent study by Egner et al. in Front Psychol 1 (2010) set out to contrast these two alternatives, by exploring the congruency sequence effect across a wide range of inter-trial intervals. It was found that congruency sequence effects were subject to rapid decay over time. This decay fits well with the notion of reactive control, while at the same time speaking against the involvement of proactive regulation—which should also (and even mainly) be evident at longer intervals. In the present study, we first replicate the reduction of the congruency sequence effect with increasing inter-trial interval in a face-word Stroop task. In a second experiment, we show that congruency sequence effects are observed at longer intervals, too, when the proportion of trials with the longest inter-trial interval is increased. Our findings indicate that proactive control can prevent the congruency sequence effect from decaying rapidly.
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Because we did not implement a response deadline, extreme RTs (up to 11.4 s) were registered. These nonrepresentative trials disproportionally affected the SDs and thus were first excluded from the analysis.
 
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Because we did not implement a response deadline, extreme RTs (up to 7.2 s) were registered. These nonrepresentative trials disproportionally affected the SDs and thus were first excluded from the analysis.
 
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Metagegevens
Titel
Going, going, gone? Proactive control prevents the congruency sequence effect from rapid decay
Auteurs
W. Duthoo
E. L. Abrahamse
S. Braem
W. Notebaert
Publicatiedatum
01-07-2014
Uitgeverij
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Gepubliceerd in
Psychological Research / Uitgave 4/2014
Print ISSN: 0340-0727
Elektronisch ISSN: 1430-2772
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-013-0498-4

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