Errors Disrupt Subsequent Early Attentional Processes

Overview

Journal PLoS One

Specialties General Medicine
Science

Date 2016 Apr 7

PMID 27050303

Citations 7

Authors

Liesbet Van der Borght

Hanne Schevernels

Boris Burle

Wim Notebaert

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Abstract

It has been demonstrated that target detection is impaired following an error in an unrelated flanker task. These findings support the idea that the occurrence or processing of unexpected error-like events interfere with subsequent information processing. In the present study, we investigated the effect of errors on early visual ERP components. We therefore combined a flanker task and a visual discrimination task. Additionally, the intertrial interval between both tasks was manipulated in order to investigate the duration of these negative after-effects. The results of the visual discrimination task indicated that the amplitude of the N1 component, which is related to endogenous attention, was significantly decreased following an error, irrespective of the intertrial interval. Additionally, P3 amplitude was attenuated after an erroneous trial, but only in the long-interval condition. These results indicate that low-level attentional processes are impaired after errors.

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