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This work fashioned a part of Laura Gallego’s placement as pupil collaborator working with Fabrice Parmentier.
Summary: Previous research present that novel, task-irrelevant, auditory stimuli, offered within the context of an in any other case repeated commonplace sound, seize contributors’ consideration away from a focal job, leading to behavioral distraction. Whereas proof has proven that making novel sounds predictable reduces or eliminates distraction, it stays unknown whether or not predictable goal stimuli can even protect contributors from novelty distraction. Utilizing a serial response time job, we put in the educational of a sequence of goal stimuli earlier than testing the influence of novel sounds on efficiency for this sequence in comparison with a brand new one. Within the studying section, contributors pressed response buttons akin to visible cues showing in certainly one of 4 spatial areas organized horizontally. Unbeknownst to contributors, the sequence of areas adopted a sample throughout a number of blocks earlier than being changed by a brand new sample. The information offered strong proof of sequence studying for the repeated sequence. Within the auditory distraction section, auditory distractors had been offered instantly earlier than every visible goal. Novel sounds lengthened response occasions in comparison with the usual sound (novelty distraction), equally for discovered and new sequences. We conclude that the anticipation of goal stimuli and responses doesn’t protect contributors from novelty distraction and that the latter is an compulsory attentional impact.
Newest replace: This work has been accepted for oral presentation on the 62d Annual Assembly of the Psychonomic Society, in New Orleans, USA, 4-7 November 2021.