Some factors influencing spontaneous alternation in human subjects.

Wingfield, Robert C.

doi:10.1037/h0057847

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“…Spontaneous alternation has also been studied in humans, both children (see next section) and adults. Wingfield () first used a card‐picking task in which adults were asked to pick “the highest card” out of two, but only alternated about 50% of the time. Using a different response paradigm, alternation was about 67% in the first choice after a button press when keys were both white lights, and increased to 87% when one key was blue and one was red—an interesting parallel with rodent research showing that arm choice alternation increases with increased discriminability of the arms.…”

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The puzzle of spontaneous alternation and inhibition of return: How they might fit together

Phillmore

Klein

2019

Hippocampus

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Two isolated spatial phenomena share a similar “been there; done that” effect on spatial behavior. Originally discovered in rodent learning experiments, spontaneous alternation is a tendency for the organism to visit a different arm in a T‐maze on subsequent trials. Originally discovered in human studies of attention, inhibition of return is a tendency for the organism to orient away from a previously attended location. Whereas spontaneous alternation was identified by O'Keefe & Nadel as dependent on an intact hippocampus, inhibition of return is dependent on neural structures that participate in oculomotor control (the superior colliculus, parietal and frontal cortex). Despite the isolated literatures, each phenomenon has been assumed to reflect a basic novelty‐seeking process, avoiding places previously visited or locations attended. In this commentary, we explore and compare the behavioral manifestations and neural underpinnings of these two phenomena, and suggest what is still needed to determine whether they operate in parallel or serial.

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The puzzle of spontaneous alternation and inhibition of return: How they might fit together

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Klein

2019

Hippocampus

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“…These studies may conveniently be divided into those which were focussed on the effects of high speed generation (generation rates faster than under "spontaneous," that is, unpaced, conditions) and those which, on the contrary, set out to investigate the influence of an experimental delay of the response interval. Briefly, experiments of the first type showed that randomization performance declined with the fast rates (9,21,116,172,203,276,285 In unpaced number generation, no dlrect relationship was found between randomness of sequences and the completion time for the randomization task (210). "Spacing" successive responses seems to have favorable effects on randomization performance.…”

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Variables That Influence the Generation of Random Sequences: An Update

Brugger¹

1997

Percept Mot Skills

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This article updates Tune's 1964 review of variables influencing human subjects' attempts at generating random sequences of alternatives. It also covers aspects not included in the original review such as randomization behavior by patients with neurological and psychiatric disorders. Relevant work from animal research (spontaneous alternation paradigm) is considered as well. It is conjectured that Tune's explanation of sequential nonrandomness in terms of a limited capacity of short-term memory can no longer be maintained. Rather, interdependence among consecutive choices is considered a consequence of an organism's natural susceptibility to interference. Random generation is thus a complex action which demands complete suppression of any rule-governed behavior. It possibly relies on functions of the frontal lobes but cannot otherwise be "localized" to restricted regions of the brain. Possible developments in the field are briefly discussed, both with respect to basic experiments regarding the nature of behavioral nonrandomness and to potential applications of random-generation tasks.

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“…SHINKURO IWAHARA Nara Women's University Spontaneous alternation has been studied mostly with rats and other lower animals and only a few studies have been made with human subjects (1,4,5,6,7,10). Wingfield (10) found that human adults showed more spontaneous alternation in choice of lights of different colors than of the same color.…”

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“…Wingfield (10) found that human adults showed more spontaneous alternation in choice of lights of different colors than of the same color. This result generally agreed with animal studies (2).…”

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Studies in Spontaneous Alternation in Human Subjects Iii

Iwahara

1959

Jpn. Psychol. Res

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Some factors influencing spontaneous alternation in human subjects.

Cited by 18 publications

References 4 publications

The puzzle of spontaneous alternation and inhibition of return: How they might fit together

The puzzle of spontaneous alternation and inhibition of return: How they might fit together

Variables That Influence the Generation of Random Sequences: An Update

Studies in Spontaneous Alternation in Human Subjects Iii

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