Summary: Quite a few research utilizing oddball duties have proven that surprising sounds offered in a predictable or repeated sequence (deviant vs customary sounds) seize consideration and negatively influence ongoing behavioral efficiency. Right here, we study a side of this impact that has gone comparatively unnoticed: the influence of deviant sounds is stronger for response repetitions than for response switches. Our method was two-fold. First, we carried out a simulation to estimate the probability that stimuli sequences utilized in previous work could not have used balanced proportions of response repetition and swap trials. Extra particularly, we sought to find out whether or not the bigger distraction impact for response repetitions could have mirrored a rarer, and thereby extra shocking, incidence of such trials. To take action, we simulated 10,000 stimuli units for a 2-AFC process with a proportion of deviant trial of .1 or .16. Second, we carried out a 2-AFC oddball process during which contributors judged the length of a tone (quick vs lengthy). We fastidiously managed the sequence of stimuli to make sure to stability the proportions of response repetitions and response switches throughout the usual and deviant circumstances. The outcomes of the stimuli simulation confirmed that, opposite to our considerations, response switches had been extra possible than response repetitions when left uncontrolled for. This implies that the bigger distraction discovered for response repetition in previous work could in reality have been underestimated. Within the tone length judgment process, the outcomes confirmed a big influence of the response sort on distraction as measured by response occasions: Deviants sounds considerably delayed response repetitions however notably accelerated switches. These findings recommend that deviant sound hinder response repetition and encourage or bias the cognitive system in the direction of a change of responses. We focus on these findings in relation to the adaptive nature of the involuntary detection of surprising stimuli and in relation to the notion of partial repetition prices. We argue that outcomes are in keeping with the binding account in addition to with the signaling principle.