Why does the effect of short-SOA exogenous cuing on simple RT depend on the number of display locations?

Mordkoff, J. Toby; Halterman, Rose; Chen, Peggy

doi:10.3758/pbr.15.4.819

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“…One thing we need to point out is that the magnitude of the sequence effect observed in present study (19 ms) is very close to the results of previous studies (15 ms at Dodd and Pratt (2007); 17 ms at Mordkoff et al (2008); around 20 ms at Jongen and Smulders (2006), perceived from their Fig. 4).…”

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confidence: 91%

“…However, there are still some issues that need to be considered. First, the impairment of sequence effects when previous trials had a short SOA apparently contradicts the results of Mordkoff et al (2008), in which the SOA was also very short but resembling sequence effects were observed. One critical difference between the two studies is the different attentional cues.…”

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confidence: 67%

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Sequence effects by non-predictive arrow cues

Qian

Shinomori

Miao

2011

Psychological Research

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Previous studies have found that attention orienting is influenced by the orienting processes of previous trials in a spatial cueing paradigm. This study mainly investigated whether this sequence effect could happen for a non-predictive arrow cue and whether it was influenced by the cue-target SOAs in previous and current trials. A significant sequence effect was observed for arrow cues even when voluntary control was not required, and it was significantly influenced by the SOAs of previous trials. The present results support the automatic memory check hypothesis and may reflect some temporal characteristics of the memory mechanism in sequential processes. In addition, contrary to the previous findings, we found an overall response facilitation following a catch trial, suggesting that the influence of preceding catch trials may be sensitive to experimental contexts.

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confidence: 67%

Sequence effects by non-predictive arrow cues

Qian

Shinomori

Miao

2011

Psychological Research

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“…Therefore, it is not surprising to find that the effect pattern observed in the present study only appeared for central arrow cues. In line with the present findings, in our previous study (Qian et al, 2012) we found that the sequence effect of arrow cueing was modulated by the cue-target SOA of the previous trial, which was different from the findings of peripheral-cueing tasks (Mordkoff, Halterman, & Chen, 2008). The present study may have found new evidence of the difference between symbolic and exogenous cueing.…”

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The functional role of alternation advantage in the sequence effect of symbolic cueing with nonpredictive arrow cues

Qian

Miao

Shinomori

et al. 2012

Atten Percept Psychophys

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Previous studies have shown that attention orienting is influenced by the orienting processes of previous trials in a spatial-cueing paradigm. This sequence effect is due to the fact that performance is facilitated when cue validity (valid or invalid) repeats between trials. In this study, we investigated the influences of cue direction and target location on the sequence effect of symbolic cueing with a nonpredictive central arrow cue. The cue direction was manipulated to always point in a certain direction in one condition, and to always point in the opposite direction in a second condition. The results showed that sequence effects were enhanced by the alternation of cue direction and target location and were impaired by the repetition of cue direction and target location. The same result pattern was found when the cue direction was chosen randomly in the third condition. The results suggested that both the repetition advantage effect of cue validity and the alternation advantage effect of cue direction and target location are involved in the sequence effect within the symboliccueing paradigm.

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“…By definition, in order for the effect of a spatial precue to be labeled "exogenous" (or due to bottom-up attentional capture), the target must not occur in the cued location more often than chance (see, e.g., Luck & Thomas, 1999;Tassinari, Aglioti, Pallini, Berlucchi, & Rossi, 1994). Therefore, when the number of possible target locations is increased from the typical two to the less-typical four (e.g., Mordkoff, Halterman, & Chen, 2008), the proportion of valid-cue trials must be decreased from 50% to 25%, such that the cue continues to provide no useful information. To do otherwise would change the task into the hybrid situation that involves voluntary attentional deployment as well as exogenous capture.…”

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Observation: Three reasons to avoid having half of the trials be congruent in a four-alternative forced-choice experiment on sequential modulation

Mordkoff

2012

Psychon Bull Rev

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Sequential modulation is the finding that the sizes of several selective-attention phenomena-namely, the Simon, flanker, and Stroop effects-are larger following congruent trials than following incongruent trials. In order to rule out relatively uninteresting explanations of sequential modulation that are based on a variety of stimulus-and response-repetition confounds, a four-alternative forced choice task must be used, such that all trials with any kind of repetition can be omitted from the analysis. When a fouralternative task is used, the question arises as to whether to have the proportions of congruent and incongruent trials be set by chance (and, therefore, be 25% congruent and 75% incongruent) or to raise the proportion of congruent trials to 50%, so that it matches the proportion of incongruent trials. In this observation, it is argued that raising the proportion of congruent trials to 50% should not be done. For theoretical, practical, and empirical reasons, having half of the trials be congruent in a four-alternative task aimed at providing unambiguous evidence of sequential modulation should be avoided.

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Why does the effect of short-SOA exogenous cuing on simple RT depend on the number of display locations?

Cited by 19 publications

References 25 publications

Sequence effects by non-predictive arrow cues

Sequence effects by non-predictive arrow cues

The functional role of alternation advantage in the sequence effect of symbolic cueing with nonpredictive arrow cues

Observation: Three reasons to avoid having half of the trials be congruent in a four-alternative forced-choice experiment on sequential modulation

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