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Irrelevant Stimuli and Action Control: Analyzing the Influence of Ignored Stimuli via the Distractor-Response Binding Paradigm
Published on: May 14, 2014
Attentional control of the creation and retrieval of stimulus-response bindings
Bernhard Hommel1, Jiska Memelink, Sharon Zmigrod
1Cognitive Psychology Unit, Department of Psychology, Leiden University, Postbus 9555, 2300 RB, Leiden, The Netherlands, hommel@fsw.leidenuniv.nl.
Abstract:
Two experiments studied the degree to which the creation and retrieval of episodic feature bindings is modulated by attentional control. Experiment 1 showed that the impact of bindings between stimulus and response features varies as a function of the current attentional set: only bindings involving stimulus features that match the current set affect behavior. Experiment 2 varied the time point at which new attentional sets were implemented-either before or after the processing of the to-be-integrated stimuli and responses. The time point did not matter, suggesting that the attentional set has no impact on feature integration proper but controls which features get access to and can thus trigger the retrieval of bindings.
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