How visual information affects decision making, interference control and response inhibition
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University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
How do we regulate the need for controlled voluntary actions? And how is this regulation affected by the amount and quality of visual information? In the present study, we used well-established cognitive control tasks that tap into the delicate balance between fast and accurate responding, interference control, and the ability to withhold a response. Participants underwent a behavioral two choice speed-accuracy experiment, a flanker task and a stop-signal task. In all three cognitive control tasks, the crucial manipulation pertained to the manipulation of the quality and the amount of information of the stimuli. Stimuli contained either high, low or both spatial frequencies. The behavioral data was modeled using the Linear Ballistic Accumulator model; a mathematical model that can account for latent strategic adjustments in the regulation of voluntary control. Interestingly, initial analyses suggest that both the amount and the quality of information differentially affected performance in all three cognitive control tasks. Taken together, the present results suggest a task-independent influence of basic sensory information on strategic adjustments in voluntary action control. Funding: Supported by Mozaiek grant (SJ) and VENI (BUF) from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO).
Keywords:
decision-making,
Visual information
Conference:
XI International Conference on Cognitive Neuroscience (ICON XI), Palma, Mallorca, Spain, 25 Sep - 29 Sep, 2011.
Presentation Type:
Poster Presentation
Topic:
Poster Sessions: Decision Making, Reward Processing & Response Selection
Citation:
Jahfari
S,
Scholte
H and
Forstmann
BU
(2011). How visual information affects decision making, interference control and response inhibition.
Conference Abstract:
XI International Conference on Cognitive Neuroscience (ICON XI).
doi: 10.3389/conf.fnhum.2011.207.00373
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Received:
23 Nov 2011;
Published Online:
28 Nov 2011.
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Correspondence:
Dr. Sara Jahfari, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands, sara.jahfari@gmail.com