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| Research article summary (published 30 Mar 2003): |
Automatic vigilance for task-related information: perseverance after failure and inhibition after success.
Full Abstract
In three experiments, the influence of failure and success on persistent automatic vigilance task-related information was investigated. Participants first had to work on a series of synonym selection problems for which negative and positive feedback was given independently of their performance. In the second part of the experiments, words from the synonym selection problems were presented as distractors in a dual task with speeded responses. Interference effects of the distractors served as a measure of automatic vigilance for the previous synonym selection problems that was unbiased by strategic processes. Interference effects were stronger for words from failure tasks than for words from success tasks. Comparing the success and failure conditions against a neutral baseline suggested that this difference was due to both a perseverance of automatic vigilance for failure tasks and an inhibition of cognitive accessibility after success.
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Author information
Author/s: Rothermund, Klaus (K);
Affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Trier, Trier, Germany. rothermu@uni-trier.de
Journal and publication information
Publication Type: Journal Article
Journal: Memory & cognition (Mem Cognit), published in United States. (Language: eng)
Reference: 2003-Apr; vol 31 (issue 3) : pp 343-52
Dates: Created 2003/06/10; Completed 2003/07/08; Revised 2004/11/17;
PMID: 12795476, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 11/6/2008)
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