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dc.contributor.authorLeiva, A
dc.contributor.authorParmentier, FBR
dc.contributor.authorElchlepp, H
dc.contributor.authorVerbruggen, Frederick
dc.date.accessioned2015-07-10T16:01:49Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.description.abstractThe present study explores the link between attentional reorienting and response inhibition. Recent behavioral and neuroscience work indicates that both might rely on similar cognitive and neural mechanisms. We tested two popular accounts of the overlap: The ‘circuit breaker’ account, which assumes that unexpected events produce global suppression of motor output, and the ‘stimulus detection’ account, which assumes that attention is reoriented to unexpected events. In Experiment 1, we presented standard and (unexpected) novel sounds in a go/no-go task. Consistent with the stimulus detection account, we found longer RTs on go trials and higher rates of commission errors on no-go trials when these were preceded by a novel sound compared with a standard sound. In Experiment 2, novel and standard sounds acted as no-go signals. In this experiment, the novel sounds produced an improvement on no-go trials. This further highlights the importance of stimulus detection for response inhibition. Combined, the two experiments support the idea that attention is oriented to novel or unexpected events, impairing no-go performance if these events are irrelevant but enhancing no-go performance when they are relevant. Our findings also indicate that the popular circuit breaker account of the overlap between response inhibition and attentional reorienting needs some revision.en_GB
dc.description.sponsorshipEuropean Research Councilen_GB
dc.description.sponsorshipFPU Fellowshipen_GB
dc.identifier.citationVol. 41 (5), pp. 1197-1202en_GB
dc.identifier.doi10.1037/xhp0000111
dc.identifier.grantnumber312445en_GB
dc.identifier.grantnumberAP2010-0021en_GB
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10871/17868
dc.language.isoenen_GB
dc.publisherAmerican Psychological Associationen_GB
dc.relation.sourceAccompanying dataset available via: https://ore.exeter.ac.uk/repository/handle/10871/17644en_GB
dc.relation.urlhttp://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/xhp/index.aspxen_GB
dc.relation.urlhttp://hdl.handle.net/10871/17644en_GB
dc.subjectattention reorientingen_GB
dc.subjectresponse inhibitionen_GB
dc.subjectcross-modal oddballen_GB
dc.subjectgo/no-goen_GB
dc.subjectcircuit breakeren_GB
dc.titleReorienting the mind: The impact of novel sounds on go/no-go performanceen_GB
dc.typeArticleen_GB
dc.date.available2015-07-10T16:01:49Z
dc.identifier.issn0096-1523
dc.descriptionThe dataset associated with this paper is in ORE; see http://hdl.handle.net/10871/17644en_GB
dc.description© 2015 American Psychological Associationen_GB
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dc.identifier.journalJournal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performanceen_GB


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