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Article Dans Une Revue Experimental Psychology Année : 2014

Attentional Adjustment to Conflict Strength

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Current models of cognitive control assume gradual adjustment of processing selectivity to the strength of conflict evoked by distractor stimuli. Using a flanker task, we varied conflict strength by manipulating target and distractor onset. Replicating previous findings, flanker interference effects were larger on trials associated with advance presentation of the flankers compared to simultaneous presentation. Controlling for stimulus and response sequence effects by excluding trials with feature repetitions from stimulus administration (Experiment 1) or from the statistical analyses (Experiment 2), we found a reduction of the flanker interference effect after high-conflict predecessor trials (i.e., trials associated with advance presentation of the flankers) but not after low-conflict predecessor trials (i.e., trials associated with simultaneous presentation of target and flankers). This result supports the assumption of conflict-strength-dependent adjustment of visual attention. The selective adaptation effect after high-conflict trials was associated with an increase in prestimulus pupil diameter, possibly reflecting increased cognitive effort of focusing attention.
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hal-04146997 , version 1 (30-06-2023)

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Mike Wendt, Andrea Kiesel, Franziska Geringswald, Sascha Purmann, Rico Fischer. Attentional Adjustment to Conflict Strength. Experimental Psychology, 2014, 61 (1), pp.55-67. ⟨10.1027/1618-3169/a000227⟩. ⟨hal-04146997⟩
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