Voluntary choice tasks increase control settings and reduce capture

Henare, Dion T.; Schubö, Anna

doi:10.1080/13506285.2021.1936726

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“…This could imply that the interference caused by different‐dimension distractors in the shape group is already relatively small, limiting any possible benefits from feature‐specific predictions. Additionally, while the shape group may have the opportunity to take advantage of greater proactive suppression in the high predictability condition, recent work has shown that participants may not choose to use this intensive form of suppression unless strongly incentivized by factors like increased task difficulty (Conci et al, 2019), a lack of target predictability (van Moorselaar et al, 2020), or enforced task set instantiation through voluntary choice paradigms (Henare & Schubö, 2021).…”

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Selection history and task predictability determine the precision expectations in attentional control

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Predictive processing frameworks have demonstrated the central role that prediction plays in a range of cognitive processes including bottom-up and top-down mechanisms of attention control. However, relatively little is understood about how predictive processes interact with the third main determinant of attentional priority -selection history. In this experiment, participants developed a history of either color or shape selection while we observed the impact of these histories in an additional singleton search task using behavioral measures and ERP measures of attentional control. Throughout the experiment, participants were encouraged to predict the upcoming display, but prediction errors were either high or low depending on session. Persistent group differences in our results showed that selection history contributes to the precision weighting of a stimulus, and that this is mediated by overall prediction error. Color-singleton distractors captured attention and required greater suppression when participants had a history of color selection; however, these participants gained large benefits when the upcoming stimuli were highly predictable. We suggest that selection history modulates the precision expectations for a feature in a persistent and implicit way, producing an attentional bias that predictability can help to counteract, but cannot prevent or eliminate entirely.

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Complex trade-offs in a dual-target visual search task are indexed by lateralised ERP components

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Tünnermann,

Wagner

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In everyday tasks, the choices we make incorporate complex trade-offs between conflicting factors that affect how we will achieve our goals. Previous experimental research has used dual-target visual search to determine how people flexibly adjust their behaviour and make choices that optimise their decisions. In this experiment, we leveraged a visual search task that incorporates complex trade-offs, and electroencephalography (EEG), to understand how neural mechanisms of selective attention contribute to choice behaviour in these tasks. On each trial, participants could choose to respond to the gap location on either of two possible targets. Each target was colour coded such that colour indicated which of the two had the easier gap discrimination. Orthogonally, we manipulated the set size of coloured distractors to modulate how efficiently each target could be found. As a result, optimised task performance required participants to trade-off conflicts between the ease of finding a target given the current set size, and the ease of making its associated gap discrimination. Our results confirm that participants are able to flexibly adjust their behaviour, and trade-off these two factors to maintain their response speed and accuracy. Additionally, the N2pc and SPCN components elicited by search displays could reliably predict the choice that participants would ultimately make on a given trial. These results suggest that initial attentional processes may help to determine the choice participants make, highlighting the central role that attention may play in optimising performance on complex tasks.

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Themes and variations: A response to commentaries on Luck, et al. (2021)

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Folk

2021

Visual Cognition

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Voluntary choice tasks increase control settings and reduce capture

Abstract: In their article, Luck et al. ([2021]. Progress toward resolving the attentional capture debate.

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Selection history and task predictability determine the precision expectations in attentional control

Selection history and task predictability determine the precision expectations in attentional control

Complex trade-offs in a dual-target visual search task are indexed by lateralised ERP components

Themes and variations: A response to commentaries on Luck, et al. (2021)

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