When response selection becomes gambling : post-error slowing and speeding in self-paced colour discrimination tasks
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- Charlotte Eben (UGent) , Luc Vermeylen, Zhang Chen (UGent) , Wim Notebaert (UGent) , Ivan Ivanchei (UGent) and Frederick Verbruggen (UGent)
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- Ctrl-ImpAct (Control of impulsive action)
- Abstract
- People tend to slow down after committing an error in many tasks. However, some studies failed to observe such post-error slowing. Furthermore, recent work found speeding after another type of sub-optimal outcomes: people often speed up after losses in gambling situations. What features determine whether people slow down or speed up after sub-optimal outcomes (error vs. loss)? To answer this question, we focused on the role of task characteristics and control over the outcome, by making a task where we previously observed post-error slowing more like tasks where we previously observed post-loss speeding. First, we made a color-discrimination task completely self-paced (Experiment 1A) and added reward/punishment (Experiment 1B). In both experiments, post-error slowing was observed, without modulation by reward/punishment. We then manipulated task difficulty to investigate the influence of control over the outcome. Consistent with our predictions, control over the outcome modulated post-error adjustments, as participants slowed down after controllable errors, but sped up after uncontrollable errors (Experiment 3). Importantly, this effect was global as post-error speeding was observed when controllable and ’uncontrollable’ errors were intermixed (Experiment 2), suggesting an influence of overall task context. Thus, responses to sub-optimal outcomes might depend on the control over the outcome.
- Keywords
- General Psychology, post -error slowing, post -error speeding, action control, self -pace, behavioral adjustments, DECISION-MAKING, OUTCOMES
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-01H2T03NCNW4FJDTAYMYGEMKMC
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- Eben, Charlotte, et al. “When Response Selection Becomes Gambling : Post-Error Slowing and Speeding in Self-Paced Colour Discrimination Tasks.” COLLABRA-PSYCHOLOGY, vol. 9, no. 1, 2023, doi:10.1525/collabra.73052.
- APA
- Eben, C., Vermeylen, L., Chen, Z., Notebaert, W., Ivanchei, I., & Verbruggen, F. (2023). When response selection becomes gambling : post-error slowing and speeding in self-paced colour discrimination tasks. COLLABRA-PSYCHOLOGY, 9(1). https://doi.org/10.1525/collabra.73052
- Chicago author-date
- Eben, Charlotte, Luc Vermeylen, Zhang Chen, Wim Notebaert, Ivan Ivanchei, and Frederick Verbruggen. 2023. “When Response Selection Becomes Gambling : Post-Error Slowing and Speeding in Self-Paced Colour Discrimination Tasks.” COLLABRA-PSYCHOLOGY 9 (1). https://doi.org/10.1525/collabra.73052.
- Chicago author-date (all authors)
- Eben, Charlotte, Luc Vermeylen, Zhang Chen, Wim Notebaert, Ivan Ivanchei, and Frederick Verbruggen. 2023. “When Response Selection Becomes Gambling : Post-Error Slowing and Speeding in Self-Paced Colour Discrimination Tasks.” COLLABRA-PSYCHOLOGY 9 (1). doi:10.1525/collabra.73052.
- Vancouver
- 1.Eben C, Vermeylen L, Chen Z, Notebaert W, Ivanchei I, Verbruggen F. When response selection becomes gambling : post-error slowing and speeding in self-paced colour discrimination tasks. COLLABRA-PSYCHOLOGY. 2023;9(1).
- IEEE
- [1]C. Eben, L. Vermeylen, Z. Chen, W. Notebaert, I. Ivanchei, and F. Verbruggen, “When response selection becomes gambling : post-error slowing and speeding in self-paced colour discrimination tasks,” COLLABRA-PSYCHOLOGY, vol. 9, no. 1, 2023.
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