ArticleAttention, perception & psychophysics2019
Alertness and cognitive control: Is there a spatial attention constraint?
Article in Attention, perception & psychophysics, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 9 papers.
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9 citing papers in PubMed.
- Trial history shapes the alerting-congruency interaction in selective attention.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- On the rigidity of the preparation effect.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Phasic Alertness Impairs Cognitive Control by Amplifying Competition between Evidence Accumulators.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025Article
- Readiness for Perception and Action: Towards a More Mechanistic Understanding of Phasic Alertness.Journal of cognition · 2025Article
- Neural basis of the interaction between alerting and executive control.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Effects of alerting signals on the spatial Stroop effect: evidence for modality differences.Psychological research · 2024Article
- Warning signals only support the first action in a sequence.Cognitive research: principles and implications · 2023Article
- The Effects of Bilateral and Ipsilateral Auditory Stimuli on the Subcomponents of Visual Attention.i-Perception · 2021Article
- Potential and efficiency of statistical learning closely intertwined with individuals' executive functions: a mathematical modeling study.Scientific reports · 2020Article
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Abstract
Congruency effects in arrow flanker tasks are often larger when subjects are more alert, suggesting an unusual connection between alertness and cognitive control. Theoretical accounts of the alerting-congruency interaction differ with respect to whether and how spatial attention is involved. In the present study, the author conducted eight experiments to determine whether there is a spatial attention constraint linking alertness to cognitive control. Alertness was manipulated in color-word Stroop tasks involving stimuli that were spatially integrated (Experiments 1-3) or separated (Experiments 4 and 5), as well as in Stroop-like tasks involving spatially separated stimuli for which the irrelevant stimulus features were spatial words (Experiments 6 and 7) or arrows (Experiment 8). All experiments yielded effects of alerting and congruency, but none produced the alerting-congruency interaction typically found with arrow flanker tasks. The results suggest that there is a spatial attention constraint on the relationship between alertness and cognitive control, part of which might involve having a task goal associated with spatial information processing.
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