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ArticleFrontiers in psychology2019

Target-Response Associations Can Produce Response-Congruency Effects Without Task-Switching Costs.

Bingxin Li, Xiangqian Li, Xuhong Liu, Martin Lages, Gijsbert Stoet

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Article in Frontiers in psychology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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Bingxin LiSchool of Psychology, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom.
Xiangqian LiDepartment of Psychology, School of Social Development and Public Policy, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
Xuhong LiuSchool of Psychology, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom.
Martin LagesSchool of Psychology, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom.
Gijsbert StoetDepartment of Psychology, University of Essex, Colchester, United Kingdom.

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Abstract

In task-switching experiments with bivalent target stimuli, conflicts during response selection give rise to response-congruency effects. Typically, participants respond more slowly and make more errors in trials with incongruent targets that require different responses in the two tasks, compared to trials with congruent targets that are associated with the same response in both tasks. Here we investigate whether participants show response-congruency effects when task rules are not made explicit. In two experiments, we assigned task-irrelevant features to each bivalent target. When participants were instructed to apply the task rules, they showed significant task-switching costs as well as response-congruency effects. Importantly, when the same participants did not know the task rules and responded without applying the task rules, they showed response-congruency effects but no switch costs. The significant congruency effects suggest that associations between bivalent target features and responses can be formed passively, even when participants do not follow the task rules and use task-irrelevant target features to make a response.

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bivalent stimulicongruency effecttarget-response associationtask-switchingtask-switching cost

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PMID30804824
PMCPMC6378947

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