ArticleAttention, perception & psychophysics2022
Task cue influences on lexical decision performance and masked semantic priming effects: The role of cue-task compatibility.
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- Task cue transparency shapes cognitive and visual demands in task preparation.Cognitive processing · 2026Article
- The role of take-over cue informativity in interrupted take-over requests in a semi-automated driving scenario.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Trial-wise awareness ratings do not capture the dynamics of masked priming.Neuroscience of consciousness · 2026Article
- Inhibition of cued but not executed task sets depends on cue-task compatibility and practice.Psychological research · 2024Article
- Dynamics of task preparation processes revealed by effect course analysis on response times and error rates.Scientific reports · 2024Article
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Abstract
Recent research demonstrated that mere presentation of a task cue influences subsequent unconscious semantic priming by attentional sensitization of related processing pathways. The direction of this influence depended on task-set dominance. Dominant task sets with a compatible cue-task mapping were supposed to be rapidly suppressed, while weak task sets showed more sustainable activation. Building on this research, we manipulated cue-task compatibility as instance of task-set dominance in two experiments and tested how masked semantic priming was influenced by actually performing the cued task (induction-task trials) or by mere cue presentation (task cue-only trials). In induction-task trials, the results of earlier research were replicated; semantic priming was larger following a semantic induction task compared to a perceptual induction task. In task cue-only trials, priming effects were reversed compared to induction-task trials in both experiments. Priming was larger for a perceptual compared to a semantic task set in task cue-only trials, indicating suppression of task sets following mere cue presentation in preparation for the upcoming lexical decision task. This notion of an inhibition of task sets after mere cue presentation was further supported by switching-related costs and changes of task-set implementation throughout the experiment. The absence of a moderator role of cue-task compatibility for task cue effects on priming in the present study suggests that the precise time course of task-set activation and inhibition in response to task cues as a function of cue-task compatibility might depend on specific experimental settings.
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