Response Activation in Overlapping Tasks and the Response-Selection Bottleneck

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 376-397

  Schubert, Torsten ^a   Fischer, Rico ^a   Stelzel, Christine ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

central bottleneck; overlapping tasks; psychological refractory period; response activation; subliminal response priming

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CONFLICT; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; MENTAL FUNCTION; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL REFRACTORY PERIOD; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REFERENCE VALUE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; MENTAL PROCESSES; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REFERENCE VALUES; REFRACTORY PERIOD, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SUBLIMINAL STIMULATION;

EID: 43049091936     PISSN: 00961523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0096-1523.34.2.376     Document Type: Article

References (53)

1. Anderson J.R., Taatgen N.A., and Byrne M.D. Learning to achieve perfect timesharing: Architectural implications of Hazeltine, Teague, and Ivry (2002). Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 31 (2005) 749-761
2. Ansorge U. Top-down contingencies of nonconscious priming revealed by dual-task interference. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology A 57 (2004) 1123-1148
3. Azuma R., Prinz W., and Koch I. Dual-task slowing and the effects of cross-task compatibility. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology A 57 (2004) 693-713
4. Bargh J., and Chartrand T.L. The unbearable automaticity of being. American Psychologist 54 (1999) 462-479
5. De Jong R. Multiple bottlenecks in overlapping task performance. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 19 (1993) 965-980
6. Eimer M. Facilitatory and inhibitory effects of masked prime stimuli on motor activation and behavioral performance. Acta Psychologica 101 (1999) 293-313
7. Eimer M., and Schlaghecken F. Effects of masked stimuli on motor activation: Behavioral and electrophysiological evidence. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 24 (1998) 1737-1747
8. Frith D.C., and Done D.J. Routes to action in reaction tasks. Psychological Research 48 (1986) 169-177
9. Gilbert S.J., and Shallice T. Task switching: A PDP model. Cognitive Psychology 44 (2002) 297-337
10. Goodale M.A., and Milner D.A. Separate visual pathways for perception and action. Trends in Neuroscience 15 (1992) 20-25
11. Greenwald A.G. Unconscious cognition claimed. American Psychologist 47 (1992) 766-779
12. Greenwald A.G., Klinger M.R., and Schuh E.S. Activation by marginally perceptible ("subliminal") stimuli: Dissociation of unconscious from conscious cognition. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 124 (1995) 22-42
13. Hommel B. Automatic stimulus-response translation in dual-task performance. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 24 (1998) 1368-1384
14. Hommel B., and Eglau. Control of stimulus-response translation in dual-task performance. Psychological Research 66 (2002) 260-273
15. Hommel B., Müsseler J., Aschersleben G., and Prinz W. The theory of event coding (TEC): A framework for perception and action planning. Behavioural and Brain Sciences 24 (2001) 849-937
16. Karlin L., and Kestenbaum R. Effects of number of alternatives on the psychological refractory period. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 20 (1968) 167-178
17. Keele S. Attention and human performance (1973), Goodyear, Pacific Palisades, CA
18. Klotz W., and Neumann O. Motor activation without conscious discrimination in metacontrast masking. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 25 (1999) 976-992
19. Koch I., and Prinz W. Process interference and code overlap in dual-task performance. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 28 (2002) 192-201
20. Kornblum S., Hasbroucq T., and Osman A. Dimensional overlap: Cognitive basis for stimulus-response compatibility-a model and taxonomy. Psychological Review 97 (1990) 253-270
21. Kornblum S., Stevens G.T., Whipple A., and Requin J. The effect of irrelevant stimuli: 1. The time course of stimulus-stimulus and stimulus-response consistency effects with Stroop-like stimuli, Simon-like tasks, and their factorial combination. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 25 (1999) 688-715
22. Leuthold H., and Kopp B. Mechanisms of priming by masked stimuli: Inferences from event-related brain potentials. Psychological Science 9 (1998) 263-269
23. Levy J., and Pashler H. Is dual-task slowing instruction dependent?. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 27 (2001) 862-869
24. Lien M.-C., McCann R.S., Ruthruff E., and Proctor R.W. Dual-task performance with ideomotor-compatible tasks: Is the central processing bottleneck intact, bypassed, or shifted in locus?. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance 31 (2005) 122-144
25. Lien M.-C., and Proctor R.W. Multiple spatial correspondence effects on dual-task performance. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 26 (2000) 1260-1280
26. Lien M.-C., and Proctor R.W. Stimulus-response compatibility and psychological refractory period effects: Implications for response selection. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review 9 (2002) 212-238
27. Logan G.D., and Delheimer J.A. Parallel memory retrieval in dual-task situations: II. Episodic memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 27 (2001) 668-685
28. Logan G.D., and Gordon R.D. Executive control of visual attention in dual-task situations. Psychological Review 108 (2001) 393-434
29. Logan G.D., and Schulkind M.D. Parallel memory retrieval in dual-task situations: I. Semantic memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 26 (2000) 1072-1090
30. McCann R.S., and Johnston J.C. Locus of the single-channel bottleneck in dual-task interference. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 18 (1992) 471-484
31. Meyer D.E., and Kieras D.E. A computational theory of executive cognitive processes and multiple-task performance: Part 1. Basic mechanisms. Psychological Review 104 (1997) 3-65
32. Meyer D.E., and Kieras D.E. Precis to a practical unified theory of cognition and action: Some lessons from EPIC computational models of human multiple-task performance. In: Gopher D., and Koriat A. (Eds). Attention and performance XVII. Cognitive regulation of performance: Interaction of theory and application (1999), MIT Press, Cambridge, MA 17-88
33. Miller J. Discrete and continuous models of human information processing. Theoretical distinctions and empirical results. Acta Psychologica 67 (1988) 191-257
34. Miller J., and Alderton M. Backward response-level crosstalk in the psychological refractory period paradigm. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 32 (2006) 149-165
35. Miller J., and Reynolds A. The locus of redundant-targets and nontarget effects: Evidence from the psychological refractory period paradigm. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 29 (2003) 1126-1142
36. Neumann O., and Klotz W. Motor responses to nonreportable masked stimuli: Where is the limit of direct parameter specification?. In: Umilta C., and Moscovitch M. (Eds). Attention and performance 15: Conscious and nonconscious information processing (1994), The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA 123-150
37. Pashler H. Dual-task interference in simple tasks: Data and theory. Psychological Bulletin 116 (1994) 220-244
38. Pashler H., Carrier M., and Hoffman J. Saccadic eye movements and dual-task interference. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology A 46 (1993) 51-82
39. Pashler H., and Johnston J.C. Chronometric evidence for central postponement in temporally overlapping tasks. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 41A (1989) 19-45
40. Prinz W. Reaktionszeit-Fraktionierung durch Varianzanalyse? [Fractionation of response times by analysis of variance?]. Archiv für Psychologie 124 (1972) 240-252
41. Proctor R.W., and Cho Y.S. The up-right/down-left advantage occurs for both participant- and computer-paced conditions: An empirical observation on Adam, Boon, Baas, & Umilta (1998). Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 27 (2001) 466-471
42. Ruthruff E., Johnston J.C., Van Selst M., Whitsell S., and Remington R. Vanishing dual-task interference after practice: Has the bottleneck been eliminated or is it merely latent?. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 29 (2003) 280-289
43. Sanders A.F. Stage analysis of reaction processes. In: Stelmach G.E., and Requin J. (Eds). Tutorials in motor behaviour (1980) 331-353 North-Holland
44. Schubert T. Processing differences between simple and choice reactions affect bottleneck localization in overlapping tasks. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 25 (1999) 408-425
45. Schumacher E.H., Lauber E.J., Glass J.M., Zurbriggen E.L., Gmeindl L., Kieras D.E., and Meyer D.E. Concurrent response-selection processes in dual-task performance: Evidence for adaptive executive control of task scheduling. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 25 (1999) 791-814
46. Schumacher E.H., Seymour T.L., Glass J.M., Lauber E.J., Kieras D.E., and Meyer D.E. Virtually perfect time sharing in dual-task performance: Uncorking the central cognitive bottleneck. Psychological Science 12 (2001) 101-108
47. Schweickert R. Latent Network Theory: Scheduling of processes in sentence verification and the Stroop effect. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition 9 (1983) 353-379
48. Sternberg S. The discovery of processing stages: Extensions of Donders' method. In: Koster W.G. (Ed). Attention and performance II (1969), North-Holland, Amsterdam 276-315
49. Tombu M., and Jolicoeur P. A central capacity sharing model of dual-task performance. Journal of Experimental Psychology, Human Perception and Performance 29 (2003) 3-18
50. Vince M.A., and Welford A.T. Time taken to change speed of a response. Nature 213 (1967) 532-533
51. Vorberg D., Mattler U., Heinecke A., Schmidt T., and Schwarzbach J. Different time courses for visual perception and action priming. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 100 (2003) 6275-6280
52. Vu K.-P.L., and Proctor R.W. Determinants of right-left and top-bottom prevalence for two-dimensional spatial compatibility. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 27 (2001) 813-828
53. Welford A.T. The "psychological refractory period" and the timing of high speed performance. British Journal of Psychology 43 (1952) 2-19