Revealing the effects of temporal orienting of attention on response conflict using continuous movements.

ABSTRACT: Orienting attention in time enables us to prepare for forthcoming perception and action (e.g., estimating the duration of a yellow traffic light when driving). While temporal orienting can facilitate performance on simple tasks, its influence on complex tasks involving response conflict is unclear. Here, we adapted the flanker paradigm to a choice-reaching task where participants used a computer mouse to reach to the left or right side of the screen, as indicated by the central arrow presented with either the congruent or incongruent flankers. We assessed the effects of temporal orienting by manipulating goal-driven temporal expectation (using probabilistic variations in target timing) and stimulus-driven temporal priming (using sequential repetitions versus switches in target timing). We

SUBMITTER: Menceloglu M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8130537 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature