The role of response readiness in subliminal visuomotor processes.
Inhibition
Motor activation
Negative compatibility effect
RT fluctuations
Response readiness
Journal
Consciousness and cognition
ISSN: 1090-2376
Titre abrégé: Conscious Cogn
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 9303140
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
02 2019
02 2019
Historique:
received:
22
08
2018
revised:
11
12
2018
accepted:
14
12
2018
pubmed:
31
12
2018
medline:
10
4
2020
entrez:
31
12
2018
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
The present study aims to examine the impact of response readiness on visuomotor processes triggered by subliminal stimuli using a mixed paradigm involving the masked prime paradigm and a foreperiod paradigm. Experiment 1 ensured that response readiness was successfully manipulated in the mixed paradigm. Importantly, Experiment 2 found that the negative compatibility effect (NCE; a behavioral indicator of subliminal visuomotor processes) disappeared and that response time lost its power to modulate the compatibility effect (CE) with reduced response readiness (due to temporal uncertainty). These results of CEs both independent of response latency and across different levels of response latency indicate that response readiness is a prerequisite for obtaining the NCE. The findings suggest that automatic processing of subliminal stimuli is susceptible to top-down control for reducing the interference of irrelevant information, which ensures a high degree of adaptability and flexibility of our cognitive system in interactions with the changing environment.
Identifiants
pubmed: 30594808
pii: S1053-8100(18)30371-4
doi: 10.1016/j.concog.2018.12.002
pii:
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
23-32Informations de copyright
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