TY - JOUR
T1 - Preventing distraction
T2 - Assessing stimulus-specific and general effects of the predictive cueing of deviant auditory events
AU - Horváth, János
AU - Sussman, Elyse
AU - Winkler, István
AU - Schröger, Erich
N1 - Funding Information:
The research was supported by the European Community's Seventh Framework Programme (under grant agreements PERG04-GA-2008-239393 to J. H. and ICT-FP7-231168 to I. W.) and the National Institutes of Health ( DC004263 to E. S.) and to a DFG-Reinhart-Koselleck grant to E. S. We thank Annamária Tóth and Jean DeMarco for assistance in data collection.
PY - 2011/4
Y1 - 2011/4
N2 - Rare irregular sounds (deviants) embedded into a regular sound sequence have large potential to draw attention to themselves (distraction). It has been previously shown that distraction, as manifested by behavioral response delay, and the P3a and reorienting negativity (RON) event-related potentials, could be reduced when the forthcoming deviant was signaled by visual cues preceding the sounds. In the present study, we investigated the type of information used in the prevention of distraction by manipulating the information content of the visual cues preceding the sounds. Cues could signal the specific variant of the forthcoming deviant, or they could just signal that the next tone was a deviant. We found that stimulus-specific cue information was used in reducing distraction. The results also suggest that early P3a and RON index processes related to the specific deviating stimulus feature, whereas late P3a reflects a general distraction-related process.
AB - Rare irregular sounds (deviants) embedded into a regular sound sequence have large potential to draw attention to themselves (distraction). It has been previously shown that distraction, as manifested by behavioral response delay, and the P3a and reorienting negativity (RON) event-related potentials, could be reduced when the forthcoming deviant was signaled by visual cues preceding the sounds. In the present study, we investigated the type of information used in the prevention of distraction by manipulating the information content of the visual cues preceding the sounds. Cues could signal the specific variant of the forthcoming deviant, or they could just signal that the next tone was a deviant. We found that stimulus-specific cue information was used in reducing distraction. The results also suggest that early P3a and RON index processes related to the specific deviating stimulus feature, whereas late P3a reflects a general distraction-related process.
KW - Attention
KW - Cueing
KW - Distraction
KW - Event related potentials (ERP)
KW - P3a
KW - Predictability
KW - Reorienting negativity (RON)
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U2 - 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2011.01.011
DO - 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2011.01.011
M3 - Article
C2 - 21310210
AN - SCOPUS:79953319753
SN - 0301-0511
VL - 87
SP - 35
EP - 48
JO - Biological Psychology
JF - Biological Psychology
IS - 1
ER -