Testing Biased Competition Between Attention Shifts: The New Multiple Cue Paradigm
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Testing Biased Competition Between Attention Shifts: The New Multiple Cue Paradigm. / Oren, Franziska; Kyllingsbæk, Søren; Dupont, Dawa; Grünbaum, Thor.
In: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, Vol. 50, No. 7, 2024, p. 655–682.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Testing Biased Competition Between Attention Shifts: The New Multiple Cue Paradigm
AU - Oren, Franziska
AU - Kyllingsbæk, Søren
AU - Dupont, Dawa
AU - Grünbaum, Thor
PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - While the classic Posner cuing paradigm has been used to study cuing of a single endogenous shift of attention, we present a new multiple cue paradigm to study the competition between multiple endogenous shifts of attention. The new paradigm enables us to manipulate the number of competing attention shifts and their relative importance. In three experiments, we demonstrate that the process of selecting one among other relevant attention shifts is governed by limited capacity and biased competition. We show that the probability of performing the most optimal attention shift is influenced by the total number of attention shifts competing for execution and that reward is a determining factor for the selection between attention shifts. We explain our results with a recent mathematical model of biased selection of response sets (the model of intention selection [MIS]). Our new paradigm offers a critical test of MIS and is an important new tool for investigating the mechanisms underlying the retrieval of response sets from long-term memory (LTM). The model (MIS) and the new multiple cue paradigm can provide a new perspective on LTM representations of response sets for instrumental action and on habitual and goal-directed processing in action control.
AB - While the classic Posner cuing paradigm has been used to study cuing of a single endogenous shift of attention, we present a new multiple cue paradigm to study the competition between multiple endogenous shifts of attention. The new paradigm enables us to manipulate the number of competing attention shifts and their relative importance. In three experiments, we demonstrate that the process of selecting one among other relevant attention shifts is governed by limited capacity and biased competition. We show that the probability of performing the most optimal attention shift is influenced by the total number of attention shifts competing for execution and that reward is a determining factor for the selection between attention shifts. We explain our results with a recent mathematical model of biased selection of response sets (the model of intention selection [MIS]). Our new paradigm offers a critical test of MIS and is an important new tool for investigating the mechanisms underlying the retrieval of response sets from long-term memory (LTM). The model (MIS) and the new multiple cue paradigm can provide a new perspective on LTM representations of response sets for instrumental action and on habitual and goal-directed processing in action control.
KW - Faculty of Social Sciences
KW - Multiple Cues
KW - Biased competition
KW - habitual processing
KW - goal-directed processing
KW - selective attention
U2 - 10.1037/xhp0001194
DO - 10.1037/xhp0001194
M3 - Journal article
VL - 50
SP - 655
EP - 682
JO - Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance
JF - Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance
SN - 0096-1523
IS - 7
ER -
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