Prior brief meditation reduces distractor inhibition during cognitive interference [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyBackgroundMindfulness meditation, comprising focused attention and open monitoring meditations, has been shown to enhance performance on cognitive interference tasks. While this enhancement has been considered not to result from distractor inhibition, no
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Interference of Illusory Contour Perception by a Distractor [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 The visual system is capable of recognizing objects when object information is widely separated in space, as revealed by the Kanizsa-type illusory contours (ICs).
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Distinguishing target from distractor in Stroop, picture-word, and word-word interference tasks [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2015 Lexical selection – both during reading aloud and speech production – involves selecting an intended word, while ignoring irrelevant lexical activation. This process has been studied by the use of interference tasks.
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Prepared for the expected but unready for the unexpected: Unmet distractor expectations slow braking responsiveness but improve lane-keeping precision in a virtual driving simulation. [PDF]
PLoS ONEDriving requires attentional control mechanisms to enhance the detection of driving-relevant objects and to mitigate interference from distractors.
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Social Groups Prioritize Selective Attention to Faces: How Social Identity Shapes Distractor Interference. [PDF]
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Crosslinguistic evidence against interference from extra-sentential distractors.
Journal of Memory and Language, 2020 Cue-based retrieval theories of sentence processing posit that long-distance dependencyformation is guided by a cue-based retrieval mechanism: dependents are retrieved viaretrieval cues associated with a verb. When retrieval cues match multiple similaritems in memory, this leads to cue-based retrieval interference.
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Does high state anxiety exacerbate distractor interference?
Human Movement Science, 2021 Attentional Control Theory states that anxiety can cause attention to be allocated to irrelevant sources of information by hindering the ability to control attention and focus on the information that matters. In a separate line of inquiry, action-centred views of attention state that non-target distractors involuntarily activate response codes that may
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Oculomotor interference of bimodal distractors
Vision Research, 2016 When executing an eye movement to a target location, the presence of an irrelevant distracting stimulus can influence the saccade metrics and latency. The present study investigated the influence of distractors of different sensory modalities (i.e. auditory, visual and audiovisual) which were presented at various distances (i.e. close or remote) from a
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Independent distractor frequency and age-of-acquisition effects in picture-word interference: fMRI evidence for post-lexical and lexical accounts according to distractor type [PDF]
, 2012 In two fMRI experiments, participants named pictures with superimposed distractors that were high or low in frequency or varied in terms of age of acquisition.
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Effects of spatial location on distractor interference. [PDF]
J VisWhen target and distractor stimuli are close together, they activate the same neurons and there is ambiguity as to what the neural activity represents. It has been suggested that the ambiguity is resolved by spatial competition between target and nontarget stimuli.
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