Abstract
An erroneous response is not always accompanied by the conscious perception of the error being made. We examined whether increased response interference on a manual task improved the conscious perception of erroneous eye movements on a concurrent oculomotor task. In the first experiment, we examined whether a correlate of response interference, increased task difficulty alone, could improve perception of errors. We found no effect of task difficulty on self-monitoring. Results from a second experiment suggested that participants’ ability to monitor their eye movements improved with increased response interference, but post hoc analyses indicated that this was due to a decrease in corrective behaviors. Experiment 3 required participants to report directly on whether they had made an eye movement error, and we found that response interference perturbed, rather than improved, participants’ ability to report on their errors. Together, these findings contribute to models of error monitoring, revealing little support for the view that general increases in response interference or task difficulty are signals that contribute to the conscious detection of errors.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 863-877 |
| Number of pages | 15 |
| Journal | Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics |
| Volume | 79 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Apr 1 2017 |
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Keywords
- Dual-task performance
- Executive control
- Visual awareness
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
- Language and Linguistics
- Sensory Systems
- Linguistics and Language
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Conscious error perception : The impact of response interference from a secondary task. / Robinson, Maria M.; Irwin, David E.
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