Rule reactivation and capture errors in goal directed behaviour.

ABSTRACT: In everyday life people may act automatically, following "unwanted" lines of action which are triggered by contextual cues and may interfere with current goals. Such occurrences are known as "capture errors" in reference to errors that occur when a more salient behaviour takes place when a similar, but less salient, action was intended. Clinical neuropsychological studies suggest that reactivation of previous rules may play an important role in behavioural interference, but such reactivation has been little studied in normal subjects and simple experimental tasks. In the present study we develop this theme, presenting data on 4 subjects who spontaneously showed capture errors in verbal fluency tasks, and developing a new experimental paradigm specifically designed to elicit such interferen

SUBMITTER: Roca M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6181800 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature