The comparative study of cued and implicit anticipatory attention during the performance of visual and auditory versions of the temporal order judgment taskстатья
Дата последнего поиска статьи во внешних источниках: 25 апреля 2017 г.
Аннотация:The aim of the study was to assess the influence of cued and implicit anticipatory attention on the performance of visual and auditory versions of the temporal order judgment task. A total of 20 right-handed healthy adults (10 males and 10 females) aged 23±5.7 years participated in the study. The experiment consisted of two sessions: cued attention and serial learning. In the cued attention session, a participant was informed by a warning signal about the modality of upcoming
stimuli. In the serial learning session, a fixed sequence of eight trials (visual and auditory) was repeated 30 times.
Results showed that reaction times (RT) and accuracy of performance in the temporal order judgment task improved during the serial learning session with its fixed order of visual and auditory stimuli pairs. Participants were unaware of any regularity in stimuli presentation. This finding is in favor of implicit anticipation of the forthcoming stimuli modality.
The performance in the serial learning session was modality-specific: a significant improvement in accuracy was observed for both modalities, but a decrease in RT was observed only for the auditory modality. No significant influence of explicit anticipation on task performance was found in the study.