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JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-LEARNING MEMORY AND COGNITION
Volume 35, Issue 5, Pages 1381-1388Publisher
AMER PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOC
DOI: 10.1037/a0016645
Keywords
response inhibition; cognitive control; automaticity; task goals; priming
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- National Science Foundation [BCS 0446806]
- Air Force Office of Scientific Research [FA9550-07-1-0192 f]
- National Institute of Mental Health [R01-MH073878-01]
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH [R01MH073878] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
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Response inhibition is a hallmark of cognitive control. An executive system inhibits responses by activating a stop goal when a stop signal is presented. The authors asked whether the stop goal could be primed by task-irrelevant information in stop-signal and go/no-go paradigms. In Experiment 1, the task-irrelevant primes GO, ###, or STOP were presented in the go stimulus. Go performance was slower for STOP than for ### or GO. This suggests that the stop goal was primed by task-irrelevant information. In Experiment 2, STOP primed the stop goal only in conditions in which the goal was relevant to the task context. In Experiment 3, GO, ###, or STOP were presented as stop signals. Stop performance was slower for GO than for ### or STOP. These findings suggest that task goals can be primed and that response inhibition and executive control can be influenced by automatic processing.
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