Aimed-movement responses and distributional analysis indicate distinctive cognitive control mechanisms in arrow cueing tasks.

Qian Qian, Hongyu He, Jiawen Pan, Xiaoli Zhang, Yingna Li, Yong Feng, Yunfa Fu, Miao Song, Keizo Shinomori

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Qian QianYunnan Key Laboratory of Computer Technology Applications, Faculty of Information Engineering and Automation, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Room 222, 727 Jing Ming Nan Lu, Cheng Gong Da Xue Cheng, Kunming, 650500, Yunnan, China. qianqian_yn@126.com.

Hongyu HeYunnan Key Laboratory of Computer Technology Applications, Faculty of Information Engineering and Automation, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Room 222, 727 Jing Ming Nan Lu, Cheng Gong Da Xue Cheng, Kunming, 650500, Yunnan, China.

Jiawen PanYunnan Key Laboratory of Computer Technology Applications, Faculty of Information Engineering and Automation, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Room 222, 727 Jing Ming Nan Lu, Cheng Gong Da Xue Cheng, Kunming, 650500, Yunnan, China.

Xiaoli ZhangYunnan Key Laboratory of Computer Technology Applications, Faculty of Information Engineering and Automation, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Room 222, 727 Jing Ming Nan Lu, Cheng Gong Da Xue Cheng, Kunming, 650500, Yunnan, China.

Yingna LiYunnan Key Laboratory of Computer Technology Applications, Faculty of Information Engineering and Automation, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Room 222, 727 Jing Ming Nan Lu, Cheng Gong Da Xue Cheng, Kunming, 650500, Yunnan, China.

Yong FengYunnan Key Laboratory of Computer Technology Applications, Faculty of Information Engineering and Automation, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Room 222, 727 Jing Ming Nan Lu, Cheng Gong Da Xue Cheng, Kunming, 650500, Yunnan, China.

Yunfa FuYunnan Key Laboratory of Computer Technology Applications, Faculty of Information Engineering and Automation, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Room 222, 727 Jing Ming Nan Lu, Cheng Gong Da Xue Cheng, Kunming, 650500, Yunnan, China.

Miao SongSchool of Information and Engineering, Shanghai Maritime University, Shanghai, China.

Keizo ShinomoriSchool of Information, Kochi University of Technology, Kami-city, Kochi, 782-8502, Japan.

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National Natural Science Foundation of China 32060193National Natural Science Foundation of China 62062047Xingdian Talents Support Program of Yunnan Province XDYC-QNRC-2022-0149Yunnan High Level Science and Technology Talents and Innovation Team Selection Special Project 202405AS350001

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Recent research on validity sequence effects (VSE) has drawn on conflict task theories to explain the psychological mechanisms underlying the VSE. This study analyzed a confound-minimized arrow cueing task and a prime-probe task using the aimed-movement method, which separates reaction times into initiation time (IT) and movement time (MT). Neutral stimuli were included to isolate the benefit/facilitation (or cost/interference) effects of the cues (or the primes). Distributional analyses showed that significant cueing effect and VSE only appeared in the IT data. In addition, the size of the cueing effect increased with the extension of the response latencies, mainly attributed to the increase in the cost effect by invalid cues. The size of the VSE did not vary at different response latencies and was mainly reflected by the enlarged cueing effect after previous valid cues. In comparison, the size of the congruency effect in the prime-probe task increased with the extension of the response latencies only in the MT data. Like VSE, the observed congruency sequence effect (CSE) appeared at IT data and the size of it did not vary at different response latencies, but the CSE was mainly reflected by the reduced congruency effect after previous incongruent trials. These findings are discussed and compared with literature findings from conflict tasks. The results indicate that the cueing effect of cueing tasks has qualitative difference with the congruency effect of conflict tasks, but the adaptive cognitive mechanisms (i.e., sequence effects) under these tasks are less different with each other.

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AttentionCognitionConflict, PsychologicalCuesExecutive FunctionOrientationPattern Recognition, VisualPsychomotor PerformanceReaction TimeAdultFemaleHumansMaleYoung AdultAdaptive controlAimed-movementCognitive controlCongruency effectCueing effectDistributional analysisValidity sequence effect

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PMID41483075

DOI10.1162/jocn.2009.21326

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