@article{ref1,
title="Reorienting the mind: the impact of novel sounds on go/no-go performance",
journal="Journal of experimental psychology: human perception and performance",
year="2015",
author="Leiva, Alicia and Parmentier, Fabrice B. R. and Elchlepp, Heike and Verbruggen, Frederick",
volume="41",
number="5",
pages="1197-1202",
abstract="The present study explores the link between attentional reorienting and response inhibition. Recent behavioral and neuroscience work indicates that both might rely on similar cognitive and neural mechanisms. We tested 2 popular accounts of the overlap: The &quot;circuit breaker&quot; account, which assumes that unexpected events produce global suppression of motor output, and the &quot;stimulus detection&quot; account, which assumes that attention is reoriented to unexpected events. In Experiment 1, we presented standard and (unexpected) novel sounds in a go/no-go task. Consistent with the stimulus detection account, we found longer reaction times on go trials and higher rates of commission errors on no-go trials when these were preceded by a novel sound compared with a standard sound. In Experiment 2, novel and standard sounds acted as no-go signals. In this experiment, the novel sounds produced an improvement on no-go trials. This further highlights the importance of stimulus detection for response inhibition. Combined, the 2 experiments support the idea that attention is oriented to novel or unexpected events, impairing no-go performance if these events are irrelevant but enhancing no-go performance when they are relevant. Our findings also indicate that the popular circuit breaker account of the overlap between response inhibition and attentional reorienting needs some revision. (PsycINFO Database Record<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0096-1523",
doi="10.1037/xhp0000111",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xhp0000111"
}