Task cue influences on lexical decision performance and masked semantic priming effects : the role of cue-task compatibility

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2022-09-20Authors
Berger, Alexander
Kunde, Wilfiried
Kiefer, Markus
Wissenschaftlicher Artikel
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Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics ; 84 (2022). - S. 2684-2701. - ISSN 1943-3921. - eISSN 1943-393X
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https://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13414-022-02568-2Institutions
UKU. Klinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie IIIDocument version
published version (publisher's PDF)Abstract
Recent research demonstrated that mere presentation of a task cue influences subsequent unconscious semantic priming by attentional sensitization of related processing pathways. The direction of this influence depended on task-set dominance. Dominant task sets with a compatible cue-task mapping were supposed to be rapidly suppressed, while weak task sets showed more sustainable activation. Building on this research, we manipulated cue-task compatibility as instance of task-set dominance in two experiments and tested how masked semantic priming was influenced by actually performing the cued task (induction-task trials) or by mere cue presentation (task cue-only trials). In induction-task trials, the results of earlier research were replicated; semantic priming was larger following a semantic induction task compared to a perceptual induction task. In task cue-only trials, priming effects were reversed compared to induction-task trials in both experiments. Priming was larger for a perceptual compared to a semantic task set in task cue-only trials, indicating suppression of task sets following mere cue presentation in preparation for the upcoming lexical decision task. This notion of an inhibition of task sets after mere cue presentation was further supported by switching-related costs and changes of task-set implementation throughout the experiment. The absence of a moderator role of cue-task compatibility for task cue effects on priming in the present study suggests that the precise time course of task-set activation and inhibition in response to task cues as a function of cue-task compatibility might depend on specific experimental settings.
DFG Project THU
Aufmerksamkeitsmodulation durch Aufgabenhinweisreize: Dynamik von Task Set Aktivierung und Inhibition als Funktion der Task Set Dominanz / DFG / 441649657 [KI 804/8-1]
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Gefördert durch die Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - 491116205oa-dfg-491116205
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https://static-content.springer.com/esm/art%3A10.3758%2Fs13414-022-02568-2/MediaObjects/13414_2022_2568_MOESM1_ESM.docxSubject headings
[GND]: Priming[LCSH]: Semantics; Psychological aspects | Priming (Psychology)
[Free subject headings]: Task cue | Task set | Semantic priming | Unconscious cognition | Task switching | Drift-diffusion models
[DDC subject group]: DDC 150 / Psychology
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Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://dx.doi.org/10.18725/OPARU-47450
Berger, Alexander; Kunde, Wilfiried; Kiefer, Markus (2023): Task cue influences on lexical decision performance and masked semantic priming effects : the role of cue-task compatibility. Open Access Repositorium der Universität Ulm und Technischen Hochschule Ulm. http://dx.doi.org/10.18725/OPARU-47450
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