Common or distinct attention mechanisms for contrast and assimilation?

The ability to inhibit distractors while focusing on specific targets is crucial. In most tasks, like Stroop or priming, the to-be-ignored distractors affect the response to be more like the distractors. We call this assimilation. Yet, in some tasks, the opposite holds. Constrast occurs when the res...

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Main Authors: Haaf, J.M (Author), Rafferty, S.M (Author), Rouder, J.N (Author), Snyder, H.K (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Springer New York LLC 2019
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