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Interocular suppression prevents interference in a flanker task.

Qiong Wu¹, Jonathan T H Lo Voi², Thomas Y Lee³

¹Department of Psychology, Peking University , Beijing, China.

Frontiers in Psychology

|September 1, 2015

Summary

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Awareness is crucial for executive control of attention. Blocking awareness of conflicting stimuli, using interocular suppression, eliminated the conflict effect in an attention task.

Keywords:

conflict effect consciousness awareness continuous flash suppression executive control of attention flanker task

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Area of Science:

Cognitive Neuroscience
Psychology
Visual Perception

Background:

Executive control of attention manages competing thoughts and actions.
The precise role of awareness in this process remains unclear.
Understanding awareness's contribution is key to cognitive science.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate the role of awareness in executive control of attention.
To determine if masking competing stimuli affects conflict resolution.
To examine the impact of interocular suppression on attentional conflict.

Main Methods:

Utilized an arrow flanker task with simultaneous target and flanker presentation.
Employed interocular suppression to mask flanker stimuli, preventing awareness.
Measured reaction time and error rates under congruent and incongruent conditions.

Main Results:

A typical conflict effect (slower RT, higher error rate) was observed with unmasked flankers.
The conflict effect was absent when flankers were masked via interocular suppression.
Participants could not detect or identify masked flanker direction.

Conclusions:

Blocking awareness of competing stimuli prevents executive control of attention.
Awareness is a necessary component for resolving attentional conflict.
Interocular suppression effectively disrupts executive attention mechanisms.