Not My Problem: Vicarious Conflict Adaptation with Human and Virtual Co-actors.

ABSTRACT: The Simon effect refers to an incompatibility between stimulus and response locations resulting in a conflict situation and, consequently, slower responses. Like other conflict effects, it is commonly reduced after repetitions, suggesting an executive control ability, which flexibly rewires cognitive processing and adapts to conflict. Interestingly, conflict is not necessarily individually defined: the Social Simon effect refers to a scenario where two people who share a task show a conflict effect where a single person does not. Recent studies showed these observations might converge into what could be called vicarious conflict adaptation, with evidence indicating that observing someone else's conflict may subsequently reduce one's own. While plausible, there is reason for doubt: both the

SUBMITTER: Spape MM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4848756 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature