scholarly journals Vibrotactile masking: The role of response competition

1995 ◽  
Vol 57 (8) ◽  
pp. 1190-1200 ◽  
Author(s):  
James C. Craig
Keyword(s):  
Response Competition

The Role of Horizontal Categorization in Retroactive and Proactive Interference

2002 ◽  
Vol 49 (3) ◽  
pp. 196-207 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hartmut Blank
Keyword(s):  
Proactive Interference ◽  
Paired Associate ◽  
Response Competition ◽  
Total N ◽  
Stimulus Response ◽  
Strong Interference ◽  
Word Lists ◽  
Categorical Structure ◽  
River Thames

Abstract. Four paired-associate experiments with a total N of 291 participants investigated the effects of horizontal categorization on retroactive and proactive interference. (Exclusively) horizontal categorization means that unique categorical relationships hold across the A-B and A-C stimulus-response pairs of successive word lists (e.g., fruit-pear, river-Thames, in list 1; and fruit-plum, river-Wolga, in list 2). Experiment 1 found no significant amounts of interference with this type of list organization. However, strong interference arose with the same materials when the categorical structure was destroyed in Experiment 2. A third experiment contrasted two alternative explanations for these results, and Experiment 4 replicated the effect of horizontal categorization (vs. no categorical relationship) in a within-participants design. The results of the four experiments largely fit with a response competition explanation proposed by Bower, Thompson-Schill, and Tulving (1994 ), adapted to the within-participants designs used here. Overall, the present findings add to a body of evidence demonstrating limits to retroactive and proactive interference.

Age Effects in Implicit Memory: The Role of Response Competition Induced by Relative Word Frequency

2015 ◽  
Vol 41 (5) ◽  
pp. 496-509 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa Geraci ◽  
Maryellen Hamilton ◽  
Jimmeka J. Guillory
Keyword(s):  
Implicit Memory ◽  
Word Frequency ◽  
Response Competition ◽  
Age Effects

Testing the Identification/Production Hypothesis of Implicit Memory in Schizophrenia: The Role of Response Competition

2015 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 314-321 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valéria R.S. Marques ◽  
Pietro Spataro ◽  
Vincenzo Cestari ◽  
Antonio Sciarretta ◽  
Clelia Rossi-Arnaud
Keyword(s):  
Implicit Memory ◽  
Repetition Priming ◽  
Response Competition ◽  
Reaction Times ◽  
Critical Dimension ◽  
Healthy Controls ◽  
Alternative Responses ◽  
Word Stem Completion ◽  
Verb Generation

AbstractObjectives: Previous evidence indicates that patients with schizophrenia exhibit reduced repetition priming in production tasks (in which each response cue engenders a competition between alternative responses), but not in identification tasks (in which each response cue allows a unique response). However, cross-task comparisons may lead to inappropriate conclusions, because implicit tests vary on several dimensions in addition to the critical dimension of response competition. The present study sought to isolate the role of response competition, by varying the number of solutions in the context of the same implicit tasks. Methods: Two experiments investigated the performance of patients with schizophrenia and healthy controls in the high-competition and low-competition versions of word-stem completion (Exp.1) and verb generation (Exp.2). Results: Response competition affected both the proportions of stems completed (higher to few-solution than to many-solution stems) and the reaction times of verb generation (slower to nouns having no dominant verb associates than to nouns having one dominant verb associate). Patients with schizophrenia showed significant (non-zero) priming in both experiments: crucially, the magnitude of this facilitation was equivalent to that observed in healthy controls and was not reduced in the high-competition versions of the two tasks. Conclusions: These findings suggest that implicit memory is spared in schizophrenia, irrespective of the degree of response competition during the retrieval phase; in addition, they add to the ongoing debate regarding the validity of the identification/production hypothesis of repetition priming. (JINS, 2015, 21, 314–321)

scholarly journals ON THE ROLE OF PREFERENCE IN RESPONSE COMPETITION

2005 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 247-250 ◽  
Author(s):  
William H. Ahearn ◽  
Kathy M. Clark ◽  
Ruth DeBar ◽  
Christine Florentino
Keyword(s):  
Response Competition

scholarly journals A Role of Beta Oscillatory Synchrony in Biasing Response Competition?

2008 ◽  
Vol 19 (6) ◽  
pp. 1294-1302 ◽  
Author(s):  
B.C.M. van Wijk ◽  
A. Daffertshofer ◽  
N. Roach ◽  
P. Praamstra
Keyword(s):  
Response Competition

A Confound in the Standard Control Condition of the Stroop Experiment

1981 ◽  
Vol 53 (3) ◽  
pp. 835-841 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael J. Zajano ◽  
Elaine M. Hoyceanyls ◽  
Jeanne F. Ouellette
Keyword(s):  
Selective Attention ◽  
Color Word ◽  
Color Change ◽  
Response Competition ◽  
Naming Task ◽  
Color Naming ◽  
Experimental Conditions ◽  
Color Changes ◽  
General Source

Two experiments were performed to investigate the magnitude of the confound in the standard control condition of the Stroop experiment. The confound resides in the fact that only color changes from one item to the next in the control condition, whereas both color and configuration of the items that represent color change in the usual experimental conditions. The results of both experiments showed small but significant increases in color-naming time when both colors and non-verbal shapes changed from one item to the next. These findings are discussed in the context of the role of factors in selective attention in the color-naming task. While response competition appears to be the more substantial source of interference in Stroop color-word effects, a smaller but more general source of interference due to selective attention appears in whole-list tasks with more than one dimension of item-to-item change.

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