期刊
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-HUMAN PERCEPTION AND PERFORMANCE
卷 35, 期 3, 页码 700-717出版社
AMER PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOC
DOI: 10.1037/a0013553
关键词
Eriksen; conflict; attention; Bayesian; decision making
资金
- National Institutes of Health National Research Service
- Sloan-Swartz Foundation
- Gatsby Charitable Foundation
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH [P50MH062196] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
The brain exhibits remarkable facility in exerting attentional control in most circumstances, but it also suffers apparent limitations in others. The authors' goal is to construct a rational account for why attentional control appears suboptimal under conditions of conflict and what this implies about the underlying computational principles. The formal framework used is based on Bayesian probability theory, which provides a convenient language for delineating the rationale and dynamics of attentional selection. The authors illustrate these issues with the Eriksen flanker task, a classical paradigm that explores the effects of competing sensory inputs on response tendencies. The authors show how 2 distinctly formulated models, based on compatibility bias and spatial uncertainty principles, can account for the behavioral data. They also suggest novel experiments that may differentiate these models. In addition, they elaborate a simplified model that approximates optimal computation and may map more directly onto the underlying neural machinery. This approximate model uses conflict monitoring. putatively mediated by the anterior cingulate cortex, as a proxy for compatibility representation. The authors also consider how this conflict information might be disseminated and used to control processing.
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