Evidence for Psychological Refractory Effect in Motor Inhibition for a Dual-Response Go/No-Go Task

Muroi, Miya

doi:10.2466/pms.85.6.563-568

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“…It seems likely that similar backward crosstalk has not been reported previously at least partly because many PRP paradigms have used symmetric second tasks (e.g., two-alternative forced-choice tasks). For example, go/no-go tasks have been used often as the first task in PRP paradigms (e.g., Bertelson & Tisseyre, 1969) but rarely as the second task (e.g., Muroi, Naito, & Matsumura, 1997), and no previous studies seem to have checked whether RT 1 was influenced by the go/no-go status of S 2 . Gottsdanker (1969) did report one study with asymmetric Task 2 trials.…”

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Backward crosstalk effects in psychological refractory period paradigms: effects of second-task response types on first-task response latencies

Miller

2005

Psychological Research

115

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Three experiments using psychological refractory period (PRP) tasks documented backward crosstalk effects in which the nature of the second-task response influenced the first-task response latencies. Such effects are difficult to explain within currently popular bottleneck models, according to which second-task response selection does not begin until first-task response selection has finished. In Experiments 1 and 2, the first of the PRP tasks required a choice reaction time (RT) response, whereas the second task required a go/no-go decision. Task 1 responses were faster when the second task required a go response than when it required a no-go response. Experiment 3 showed that Task 1 RTs were also influenced by the complexity of second-task responses. These backward crosstalk effects indicate that significant second-task processing is carried out in time to influence first-task responses and thus challenge strictly serial bottleneck models.

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