TY - JOUR

T1 - Blame everyone

T2 - Error-related devaluation in Eriksen flanker task

AU - Chetverikov, Andrey

AU - Iamschinina, Polina

AU - Begler, Alena

AU - Ivanchei, Ivan

AU - Filippova, Margarita

AU - Kuvaldina, Maria

N1 - Funding Information: The experiment was run using PsychoPy 1.81.02 ( cm distance from a 17 in. LCD display with 1280 × 1024 resolution (LG Flatron L1718S). Both target and distractors in the flanker task were grayscale female or male faces tinted with 50% transparent green or blue colours ([0, 1, 0] or [0, 0, 1] in − 1 to 1 RGB colour space). For each observer, twenty-four target-distractor pairs were chosen randomly from a set of 32 male and 32 female faces obtained from Facial Recognition Technology database Peirce, 2007, 2009 ). Observers sat at approximately 50 1 1 Portions of the research in this paper use the FERET database of facial images collected under the FERET programme, sponsored by the DOD Counterdrug Technology Development Program Office. ( Phillips, Moon, Rizvi, & Rauss, 2000; Phillips, Wechsler, Huang, & Rauss, 1998 ). The same stimuli without tint were used in the subsequent preference task. For the training session, a different set of 40 faces randomly selected for each observer from the same database were used. 2.3 Publisher Copyright: © 2017 Elsevier B.V. Copyright: Copyright 2017 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.

PY - 2017/10

Y1 - 2017/10

N2 - Preferences are determined not only by stimuli themselves but also by the way they are processed in the brain. The efficacy of cognitive processing during previous interactions with stimuli is particularly important. When observers make errors in simple tasks such as visual search, recognition, or categorization, they later dislike the stimuli associated with errors. Here we test whether this error-related devaluation exists in Erisken flanker task and whether it depends on the distribution of attention. We found that both attended stimuli (targets) and ignored ones (distractors) are devaluated after errors on compatible trials but not incompatible ones. The extent of devaluation is similar for targets and distractors, indicating that distribution of attention does not significantly influence the attribution of error-related negative affect. We discuss this finding in light of the possible mechanisms of error-related devaluation.

AB - Preferences are determined not only by stimuli themselves but also by the way they are processed in the brain. The efficacy of cognitive processing during previous interactions with stimuli is particularly important. When observers make errors in simple tasks such as visual search, recognition, or categorization, they later dislike the stimuli associated with errors. Here we test whether this error-related devaluation exists in Erisken flanker task and whether it depends on the distribution of attention. We found that both attended stimuli (targets) and ignored ones (distractors) are devaluated after errors on compatible trials but not incompatible ones. The extent of devaluation is similar for targets and distractors, indicating that distribution of attention does not significantly influence the attribution of error-related negative affect. We discuss this finding in light of the possible mechanisms of error-related devaluation.

KW - Conflict

KW - Error-related devaluation

KW - Errors

KW - Flanker

KW - Negative affect

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U2 - 10.1016/j.actpsy.2017.09.008

DO - 10.1016/j.actpsy.2017.09.008

M3 - Article

C2 - 28950211

AN - SCOPUS:85032932967

VL - 180

SP - 155

EP - 159

JO - Acta Psychologica

JF - Acta Psychologica

SN - 0001-6918

ER -