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Skilled performance may not be fully automatic. This study shows that task-specific processing can begin before the task is known, challenging the idea of fully pre-determined automatic responses.

Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Neuroscience
  • Human Performance

Background:

  • Skilled performance is often considered automatic, triggered by stimulus onset and un-interruptible.
  • A challenge exists in distinguishing true automaticity from effects of pre-existing mental sets when task information is known in advance.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate skilled subjects' capacity for processing before task identification.
  • To examine if processing is truly automatic or influenced by task-set anticipation.

Main Methods:

  • Participants performed numeral naming or addition tasks.
  • Task cues (tones) were presented before or simultaneously with the target numeral.
  • Stimulus onset asynchrony (SOA) and contrast were manipulated.

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Main Results:

  • An underadditive interaction between contrast and SOA was observed for one task.
  • Additive effects of contrast and SOA were found for the other task.
  • This suggests processing stages are not always functionally independent.

Conclusions:

  • The findings challenge the notion of purely automatic processing triggered solely by stimulus onset.
  • Processing stages, including encoding, can be influenced by subsequent task-specific operations.
  • This provides insight into the flexibility and constraints of skilled cognitive operations.