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Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Neuroscience

Background:

  • The response set effect demonstrates interference from irrelevant stimuli that are part of the response options.
  • The magnitude of this effect varies across studies, impacting selective attention models.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate how presentation format (pure vs. mixed blocks) influences the response set effect.
  • To test stimulus-driven accounts of the response set effect by varying distractor types.

Main Methods:

  • Two within-subjects experiments were conducted.
  • Experiment 1: Compared pure blocks versus mixed blocks of trial types (response set, non-response set, neutral).
  • Experiment 2: Manipulated the number of distractor color-words in non-response set trials.

Main Results:

  • The response set effect was significantly reduced in mixed blocks due to faster reaction times on response set trials.
  • Increasing the number of non-response set distractor concepts decreased the response set effect.

Conclusions:

  • Presentation format modulates the response set effect, providing evidence against purely strategic, top-down attention models.
  • Findings support stimulus-driven explanations and have implications for understanding the automaticity of reading.