Identity-based inhibitory processing during focused attention.
Summary of "Identity-based inhibitory processing during focused attention."
Recent data suggest that the operating principles governing inhibition of distractor-related activity may deviate from dominant models describing inhibitory processing during selective attention. Here we aimed to gain a better understanding of these data in order to determine whether they actually defy premises of current models. In addition to providing evidence against noninhibitory accounts of the data (see especially Experiment 6), the results support three main novel findings that challenge current theories. First, the data provide evidence that inhibition overpowered excitation from ongoing external input (Experiments 1-4), which suggests that inhibitory control processes are more powerful than current models indicate. Second, negative effects emerged even when targets appeared alone (Experiment 5), which suggests that selection does not play an essential role in triggering inhibitory processing. Third, relatively early distractor-related activity was affected, which supports a role for inhibition prior to action control (Experiment 3). These findings suggest a need to revise current models describing inhibition of distracting information during selective attention.
Affiliation
a Department of Psychology and Brain Health Research Centre , University of Otago , Dunedin , New Zealand.
Journal Details
This article was published in the following journal.
Name: Quarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006)
ISSN: 1747-0226
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Links
- PubMed Source: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22928521
- DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17470218.2012.701651
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