The Influence of Cue Type on Backward Inhibition

Autor/in	Arbuthnott, Katherine D.
Titel	The Influence of Cue Type on Backward Inhibition
Quelle	In: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 31 (2005) 5, S.1030-1042 (13 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0278-7393
Schlagwörter	Cues; Inhibition; Cognitive Processes; Responses; Spatial Ability; Context Effect; Experimental Psychology; Verbal Stimuli + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Stichwort; Hemmung; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess; Räumliches Vorstellungsvermögen; Experimentelle Psychologie
Abstract	Backward inhibition is proposed as a process of lateral inhibition that operates during response selection in task switching, reducing interference caused by the most recently abandoned task set. The effect has been observed across a wide range of contexts but is eliminated by using spatial location to cue tasks (K. D. Arbuthnott & T. S. Woodward, 2002). The present studies replicated this finding, showing that spatial cues are also associated with greater response congruity than verbal cues, consistent with the lateral inhibition model. Spatial cues may introduce greater discriminability between competing category-response rules, reducing the need for lateral inhibition. However, when participants named the task before target presentation, backward inhibition was observed with spatial cues, suggesting that verbalization increased competition between sets, despite spatial localization. (Author).
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