An electronic knot in the handkerchief: “Content free cueing” and the maintenance of attentive control

Manly, Tom; Heutink, Joost; Davison, Bruce; Gaynord, Bridget; Greenfield, Eve; Parr, Alice; Ridgeway, Valerie; Robertson, Ian H.

doi:10.1080/09602010343000110

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“…One interesting finding from Experiment 1 was that there was no effect of voice distinctiveness on response times to previously unlearned ("new") faces. This result suggests that there was nothing inherent in a distinctive voice stimulus which could act as an arousing stimulus or attentional cue to the current goals of the task as previously reported (e.g., Manly et al, 2004).…”

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Crossmodal priming of unfamiliar faces supports early interactions between voices and faces in person perception

Bülthoff

Newell

2017

Visual Cognition

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Crossmodal priming of unfamiliar faces supports early interactions between voices and faces in person perception

Bülthoff

Newell

2017

Visual Cognition

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“…Cues were non-predictive but were linked to an instruction to concentrate on the task at hand and are presumed to engage top-down attentional control processes. We propose that visual cues are not as arousing as auditory alerts, which have been used in previous experiments (Manly, Hawkins et al 2002;Manly, Davison et al 2004) and therefore trigger top-down attentional processes more so than bottom-up, arousal-related processes. In fact, a number of studies have used visual warning stimuli without activating arousal-related networks (Weis, Fimm et al 2000;Coull, Nobre et al 2001;Thiel, Zilles et al 2004).…”

Section: Burle Et Al (2004) Alsomentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In fact, a number of studies have used visual warning stimuli without activating arousal-related networks (Weis, Fimm et al 2000;Coull, Nobre et al 2001;Thiel, Zilles et al 2004). Unpredictable, non-predictive auditory alerts, when linked with an instruction to concentrate on one's performance in a task, have been shown to improve performance of both healthy and neurologically damaged individuals in terms of errors of commission in a GO/NOGO task (Manly, Davison et al, 2004). The authors suggest that these phasic interruptions momentarily disengage ongoing performance of a task and allow for an adjustment or re-evaluation of goals, which may have been difficult to do when the system was otherwise engaged in activity.…”

Section: Burle Et Al (2004) Alsomentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Since many executive functions such as sustained attention (Wilkins, Shallice et al 1987;Coull, Frith et al 1996;Coull, Frackowiak et al 1998;Sturm, de Simone et al 1999;Manly, Owen et al 2003) and inhibition (Kawashima, Satoh et al 1996;Garavan, Ross et al 1999;Braver, Barch et al 2001;Garavan, Ross et al 2002) To address this issue, we utilized a GO/NOGO task with intermittent phasic visual "cues to attend" in order to investigate the neural consequences of "content free" cues (Manly, Davison et al 2004) on a task of response inhibition. Cues were non-predictive but were linked to an instruction to concentrate on the task at hand and are presumed to engage top-down attentional control processes.…”

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The Role of a Right Fronto-Parietal Network in Cognitive Control

Fassbender

Simões‐Franklin

Murphy

et al. 2006

Journal of Psychophysiology

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Seemingly distinct cognitive tasks often activate similar anatomical networks. For example, the right fronto-parietal cortex is active across a wide variety of paradigms suggesting that these regions may subserve a general cognitive function. We utilized fMRI and a GO/NOGO task consisting of two conditions, one with intermittent unpredictive “cues-to-attend” and the other without any “cues-to-attend,” in order to investigate areas involved in inhibition of a prepotent response and top-down attentional control. Sixteen subjects (5 male, ages ranging from 20 to 30 years) responded to an alternating sequence of the letters X and Y and withheld responding when the alternating sequence was broken (e.g., when X followed an X). Cues were rare stimulus font-color changes, which were linked to a simple instruction to attend to the task at hand. We hypothesized that inhibitions and cues, despite requiring quite different responses from subjects, might engage similar top-down attentional control processes and would thus share a common network of anatomical substrates. Although inhibitions and cues activated a number of distinct brain regions, a similar network of right dorsolateral prefrontal and inferior parietal regions was active for both. These results suggest that this network, commonly activated for response inhibition, may subserve a more general cognitive control process involved in allocating top-down attentional resources.

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“…One speculation is that intrusive ruminative thoughts are more salient than less emotive forms of task-unrelated thought, and thus increase awareness of attentional lapses (due to ruminating), resulting in a compensatory strategy of slowing responding in order to reduce the risk of errors. A useful next step in clarifying the impact of state rumination on attentional lapses during the SART would be to 20 adopt a more constrained version of the task, which cues responses (e.g., Manly et al, 2004), thereby restricting the likelihood of differential speed-accuracy trade-offs, and facilitating a direct examination of the causal influence of rumination upon SART performance.…”

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Cueing an unresolved personal goal causes persistent ruminative self-focus: An experimental evaluation of control theories of rumination

Roberts

Watkins

Wills

2013

Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry

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Highlights• Cueing an unresolved goal causes uninstructed intrusive rumination• Trait rumination increases vulnerability to reactive rumination on unresolved goals• Goal discrepancies as opposed to other forms of goal processing trigger rumination• Validation of a novel index of dynamic uninstructed state rumination 2 Background and ObjectivesControl theory predicts that the detection of goal discrepancies initiates ruminative self-focus (Martin & Tesser, 1996). Despite the breadth of applications and interest in control theory, there is a lack of experimental evidence evaluating this prediction. The present study provided the first experimental test of this prediction. MethodsWe examined uninstructed state rumination in response to the cueing of resolved and unresolved goals in a non-clinical population using a novel measure of online rumination. ResultsConsistent with control theory, cueing an unresolved goal resulted in significantly greater recurrent intrusive ruminative thoughts than cueing a resolved goal. Individual differences in trait rumination moderated the impact of the goal cueing task on the extent of state rumination: individuals who had a stronger tendency to habitually ruminate were more susceptible to the effects of cueing goal discrepancies. LimitationsThe findings await replication in a clinically depressed sample where there is greater variability and higher levels of trait rumination. ConclusionsThese results indicate that control theories of goal pursuit provide a valuable framework for understanding the circumstances that trigger state rumination. Additionally, our measure of uninstructed online state rumination was found to be a valid and sensitive index of the extent and temporal course of state rumination, indicating its value for further investigating the proximal causes of state rumination.

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An electronic knot in the handkerchief: “Content free cueing” and the maintenance of attentive control

Cited by 68 publications

References 30 publications

Crossmodal priming of unfamiliar faces supports early interactions between voices and faces in person perception

Crossmodal priming of unfamiliar faces supports early interactions between voices and faces in person perception

The Role of a Right Fronto-Parietal Network in Cognitive Control

Cueing an unresolved personal goal causes persistent ruminative self-focus: An experimental evaluation of control theories of rumination

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