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Delta plots for conflict tasks: An activation-suppression race model.
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- Physiological Evidence for the Time-dependent Resolution of Response Conflicts.Journal of cognitive neuroscience · 2026Article
- Ten years Diffusion Model for Conflict (DMC) tasks: Theoretical foundations, applications, practical recommendations, and open challenges.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2026Review
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- Mental association of time and valence revealed with a novel chronometric approach: The positive-future effect.Memory & cognition · 2025Article
- Investigating the gaze-driven reversed congruency effect in the spatial Stroop task: A distributional approach.British journal of psychology (London, England : 1953) · 2025Article
- A comment on the Revised Diffusion Model for Conflict tasks (RDMC).Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2025Review
- Examination of the influence of stimuli eccentricity on the inhibitory control in a simon task within virtual reality.PloS one · 2025Article
- Inhibitory dynamics in dual-route evidence accumulation account for response time distributions from conflict tasks.Cognitive neurodynamics · 2024Article
- Proactive reward in conflict tasks: Does it only enhance general performance or also modulate conflict effects?Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2024Article
- The neutral condition in conflict tasks: On the violation of the midpoint assumption in reaction time trends.Quarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006) · 2024Article
- The time course of the spatial representation of 'past' and 'future' concepts: New evidence from the STEARC effect.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2024Article
- Measuring semantic memory using associative and dissociative retrieval tasks.Royal Society open science · 2024Article
- A Diffusion Model Analysis of Object-Based Selective Attention in the Eriksen Flanker Task.Experimental psychology · 2023Article
- Staggered Onsets of Processing Relevant and Irrelevant Stimulus Features Produce Different Dynamics of Congruency Effects.Journal of cognition · 2023Article
- The time-course of distractor-based activation modulates effects of speed-accuracy tradeoffs in conflict tasks.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2022Article
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Abstract
We describe a mathematically simple yet precise model of activation suppression that can explain the negative-going delta plots often observed in standard Simon tasks. The model postulates a race between the identification of the relevant stimulus attribute and the suppression of irrelevant location-based activation, with the irrelevant activation only having an effect if the irrelevant activation is still present at the moment when central processing of the relevant attribute starts. The model can be fitted by maximum likelihood to observed distributions of RTs in congruent and incongruent trials, and it provides good fits to two previously-reported data sets with plausible parameter values. R and MATLAB software for use with the model is provided.
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