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- Title
Opposing influences on conflict-driven adaptation in the Eriksen flanker task.
- Authors
Bugg, Julie M.
- Abstract
Compatibility effects in conflict paradigms are reduced following incompatible trials, and this effect is referred to as conflict adaptation. A perplexing pattern exists, however, with conflict-driven adaptation emerging in several paradigms (e.g., Stroop, Simon) but not consistently in the Eriksen and Eriksen (1974) flanker task. The present experiments address the seemingly elusive presence of conflict adaptation in this task. Experiment 1 shows that a negative-priming-like slowing may be masking conflict adaptation in the flanker task. In Experiment 2, conflict adaptation was revealed when a larger stimulus set designed to reduce negative priming was implemented. Taken together, the findings indicate that a consideration of processes opposing conflict adaptation in the flanker task may help reconcile prior findings.
- Subjects
CONFLICT management; CONFLICT (Psychology); PARADIGMS (Social sciences); ADAPTABILITY (Personality); EMOTIONS &; cognition; PRIMING (Psychology); HUMAN experimentation in psychology; SOCIAL conflict; PSYCHOLOGY
- Publication
Memory & Cognition, 2008, Vol 36, Issue 7, p1217
- ISSN
0090-502X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3758/MC.36.7.1217