How the mind shapes action: Offline contexts modulate involuntary episodic retrieval

Frings, Christian; Koch, Iring; Moeller, Birte

doi:10.3758/s13414-017-1406-6

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“…Interestingly, we found no influence of attention switches on NP. On the episodic retrieval account, one would have expected a reduction in NP on attention switch trials because the switch in auditory context should reduce the degree of match with previous episodes (Frings et al, 2017). These assumptions were not supported by our results.…”

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The persisting influence of unattended auditory information: Negative priming in intentional auditory attention switching

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Jolicœur

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Atten Percept Psychophys

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We studied negative priming (NP) in auditory attention switching. In a cued variant of dichotic listening, two spoken number words were presented, one to each ear, one spoken by a female, and one spoken by a male voice. A visual cue indicated whether the male or female voice was the target. A numerical magnitude judgement of the target number was required. The selection criterion could either switch or repeat across trials, so there were attention switch and repetition trials. Two experiments examined NP (distractor becomes target) and also included a "competitor priming" (CP) condition (target becomes distractor), relative to a "no priming" condition (target and distractor not related to previous trial). In Experiment 1, we investigated the basic priming effects. In Experiment 2, we additionally varied the response-cue interval (RCI; 100 ms vs. 1,900 ms) to examine time-related changes in priming. We found longer response times (RT) for switch trials compared with repetition trials (attention switch costs)-that is, when the internal processing context changed. In addition, we found longer RT for NP trials as well as reduced switch costs in long RCI, suggesting that previously relevant attentional settings dissipate over longer time. However, NP was not influenced by attention switches, and it was also not affected by RCI. Hence, NP in auditory attention switching does not seem strongly context or time sensitive.

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“…In order to examine the processes underlying NP, Frings, Koch, and Moeller (2017) developed a paradigm designed to separate retrieval processes from other processes involved in action control. All (episodic) retrieval processes are connected to memory processes.…”

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The persisting influence of unattended auditory information: Negative priming in intentional auditory attention switching

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“…The role of context has also been brought up recently in studies on stimulus-response binding and retrieval (Frings, Koch, & Moeller, 2017;Frings & Rothermund, 2017). For example, Frings and Rothermund (2017) investigated for the visual modality whether contextual features (such as color) are integrated into event files.…”

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Contextual modulation of prime response retrieval processes: Evidence from auditory negative priming

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Möller

Buchner

2018

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Contextual similarity between learning and test phase has been shown to be beneficial for memory retrieval. Negative priming is known to be caused by multiple processes; one of which is episodic retrieval. Therefore, the contextual similarity of prime and probe presentations should influence the size of the negative priming effect. This has been shown for the visual modality. In Experiment 1, an auditory four-alternative forced choice reaction time task was used to test the influence of prime-probe contextual similarity on negative priming and the processes underlying the modulation by context. The negative priming effect was larger when the auditory context was repeated than when it was changed from prime to probe. The modulation by context was exclusively caused by an increase in prime response retrieval errors in ignored repetition trials with context repetition, whereas repeating only the context but not the prime distractor did not lead to an increase in prime response retrieval. This exact pattern of results was replicated in Experiment 2. The findings suggest that contextual information is integrated with prime distractor and response information. Retrieval of the previous episode, including prime distractor, prime response, and context (event file), can be triggered when the former prime distractor is repeated, whereas a context cue alone does not retrieve the event file. This suggests an event file structure that is more complicated than its usually assumed binary structure.

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“…Hence, we found binding and retrieval of individual responses against a background of task repetitions. It is possible that repetition of the tasks was a necessary context cue that allowed for automatic response retrieval as a result of repetition of another specific response (see Frings, Koch, & Moeller, 2017). As a side note, repetition of the task itself might also have caused retrieval of other prime-event features (see Pösse, Waszak, & Hommel, 2006; Waszak, Hommel, & Allport, 2003) and the repetition of task pairs (A and B) might have facilitated responding in general (Hirsch, Nolden, & Koch, 2017; Hirsch, Nolden, Philipp, & Koch, 2018).…”

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From simple to complex actions: Response–response bindings as a new approach to action sequences.

Moeller¹,

Frings²

2019

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

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Binding between stimulus features and between stimuli and responses has been discussed as a central mechanism in human action control: Carrying out a response to a stimulus leads to bindings between stimulus and response features, so that repetition of one can retrieve the other later on. We find it intriguing that all discussions to date focus either on stimulus-stimulus or on stimulus-response bindings. Here we argue that response-response bindings are equally relevant for action control, if binding really plays a role in action representation. Hence, the present study investigates whether the same kind of integration and retrieval as observed between stimuli and responses is also possible between two individual responses pursuing different goals. A new design including sequential responses to a Task A and a Task B, was developed to analyze bindings between separately planned and executed responses. In two experiments, the results indicated retrieval of the response to Task B as a result of the repetition of the response to Task A. This is the first evidence for an integration of two separately planned responses in the same event representation. The result has implications for the structure of human action representation, indicating binding of individual actions in higher order representations, and suggests that binding is an even more ubiquitous mechanism in action control than previously shown. (PsycINFO Database Record

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How the mind shapes action: Offline contexts modulate involuntary episodic retrieval

Cited by 6 publications

References 36 publications

The persisting influence of unattended auditory information: Negative priming in intentional auditory attention switching

The persisting influence of unattended auditory information: Negative priming in intentional auditory attention switching

Contextual modulation of prime response retrieval processes: Evidence from auditory negative priming

From simple to complex actions: Response–response bindings as a new approach to action sequences.

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