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Baptist Liefooghe¹, Jan De Houwer, Dorit Wenke

¹Department of Experimental-Clinical and Health Psychology, Ghent University, Henri Dunantlaan 2, 9000 Ghent, Belgium. baptist.liefooghe@ugent.be

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Cognitive Psychology
Neuroscience
Human Behavior

Background:

Studies show instructed stimulus-response (S-R) mappings can activate responses for other tasks.
This suggests the formation of S-R associations for future tasks.
Task preparation is a key, yet understudied, factor in this process.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate the relationship between task preparation and instruction-based response activation.
To examine the instruction-based task-rule congruency effect as an index of this activation.

Main Methods:

Two experiments were conducted.
Participants' response activations were measured based on instructed S-R mappings.
The degree of task preparation was manipulated and assessed.

Main Results:

Instruction-based response activations occurred only when the task was sufficiently prepared.
Insufficient task preparation led to no significant instruction-based response activations.
The task-rule congruency effect was dependent on the level of task preparation.

Conclusions:

Sufficient task preparation is necessary for instructed S-R mappings to elicit automatic response activations.
This finding has implications for understanding how instructed S-R mappings are represented in working memory.
The study emphasizes the role of preparation in cognitive control and task execution.