Reference : Distractor inhibition: Evidence from lateralized readiness potentials
Scientific journals : Article
Social & behavioral sciences, psychology : Neurosciences & behavior
http://hdl.handle.net/10993/37592
Distractor inhibition: Evidence from lateralized readiness potentials
English
Pramme, Lisa[University of Trier > Department of Psychology, Cognitive Psychology]
Dierolf, Angelika[University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Language and Literature, Humanities, Arts and Education (FLSHASE) > Integrative Research Unit: Social and Individual Development (INSIDE) >]
Naumann, Ewald[University of Trier > Department of Psychology, Cognitive Psychology]
Frings, Christian[University of Trier > Department of Psychology, Cognitive Psychology]
[en] The present study investigated distractor inhibition on the level of stimulus representation. In a sequential distractor-to-distractor priming task participants had to respond to target letters flanked by distractor digits. Reaction time and stimulus-locked lateralized readiness potentials (S-LRPs) of probe responses were measured. Distractor-target onset asynchrony was varied. For RTs responses to probe targets were faster in the case of prime-distractor repetition compared to distractor changes indicating distractor inhibition. Benefits in RTs and the latency of S-LRP onsets for distractor repetition were also modulated by distractor-target onset asynchrony. For S-LRPs distractor inhibition was only present with a simultaneous onset of distractors and target. The results confirm previous results indicating inhibitory mechanisms of object-based selective attention on the level of distractor representations.
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