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Automaticity of cognitive control: goal priming in response-inhibition paradigms.
Full Abstract
Response inhibition is a hallmark of cognitive control. An executive system inhibits responses by activating a stop goal when a stop signal is presented. The authors asked whether the stop goal could be primed by task-irrelevant information in stop-signal and go/no-go paradigms. In Experiment 1, the task-irrelevant primes GO, ###, or STOP were presented in the go stimulus. Go performance was slower for STOP than for ### or GO. This suggests that the stop goal was primed by task-irrelevant information. In Experiment 2, STOP primed the stop goal only in conditions in which the goal was relevant to the task context. In Experiment 3, GO, ###, or STOP were presented as stop signals. Stop performance was slower for GO than for ### or STOP. These findings suggest that task goals can be primed and that response inhibition and executive control can be influenced by automatic processing. (c) 2009 APA, all rights reserved.
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Author/s: Verbruggen, Frederick (F); Logan, Gordon D (GD);
Affiliation: Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA. frederick.verbruggen(-atsign-)ugent.be
Grants: R01-MH073878-01 (Agency:NIMH NIH HHS)
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Publication Type: Journal Article; Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't; Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.
Journal: Journal of experimental psychology. Learning, memory, and cognition (J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn), published in United States. (Language: eng)
Reference: 2009-Sep; vol 35 (issue 5) : pp 1381-8
Dates: Created 2009/08/18; Completed 2009/10/08;
PMID: 19686032, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 10/8/2009, IMS Date: )
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