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01-03-2015 | Original Article

Task predictability influences the variable foreperiod effect: evidence of task-specific temporal preparation

Auteurs: Hannes Schröter, Teresa Birngruber, Daniel Bratzke, Jeff Miller, Rolf Ulrich

Gepubliceerd in: Psychological Research | Uitgave 2/2015

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Abstract

Temporal preparation usually results in enhanced performance in choice reaction time tasks. The present study investigated to what extent temporal preparation involves increased readiness for task-specific processing requirements as opposed to increased task-independent readiness. Participants performed either a pitch, a letter, or a color discrimination task within a variable foreperiod paradigm and tasks alternated regularly between auditory and visual discriminations. In separate blocks of trials, the upcoming visual discrimination task was either predictable or unpredictable. We observed the standard variable foreperiod effect for both visual discrimination tasks irrespective of task predictability. Importantly, however, the variable foreperiod effect was larger when the visual discrimination task was predictable than when it was unpredictable. These results suggest that temporal preparation in choice reaction time tasks involves increased readiness for both task-independent and task-specific processing requirements.
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In order to test whether the sequential FP effect usually observed in standard choice RT tasks could be replicated within the present experimental design, a supplemental ANOVA with the additional factor of FP in the preceding trial (short vs. long) was performed on RT. Most importantly, this ANOVA revealed a significant interaction of FP in the preceding trial and FP, F(1,39) = 5.67, MSE = 1,076, p = 0.022,  η p 2 = 0.127, reflecting a typical asymmetric sequential FP effect. The sequential FP effect tended to be more pronounced in blocks with two than with three tasks, as was indicated by the marginally significant three-way interaction of FP in the preceding trial, FP, and block type, F(1,39) = 3.31, MSE = 1,174, p = 0.076,  η p 2 = 0.078.
 
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It is under debate whether this configuration process is switch specific (task-set reconfiguration) or only more time consuming for switches than for repetitions (task updating; for a review, see Kiesel et al., 2010). This distinction, however, is not important for the interpretation of the present data because both accounts predict reduced RT for task switches when advance task preparation is possible. For the remainder of the discussion, we use the term advance task-set configuration.
 
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Metagegevens
Titel
Task predictability influences the variable foreperiod effect: evidence of task-specific temporal preparation
Auteurs
Hannes Schröter
Teresa Birngruber
Daniel Bratzke
Jeff Miller
Rolf Ulrich
Publicatiedatum
01-03-2015
Uitgeverij
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Gepubliceerd in
Psychological Research / Uitgave 2/2015
Print ISSN: 0340-0727
Elektronisch ISSN: 1430-2772
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-014-0550-z

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