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Imhoff, Roland ORCID: 0000-0003-0807-463X, Lange, Jens ORCID: 0000-0002-5375-3247 and Germar, Markus (2019). Identification and location tasks rely on different mental processes: a diffusion model account of validity effects in spatial cueing paradigms with emotional stimuli. Cogn. Emot., 33 (2). S. 231 - 245. ABINGDON: ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD. ISSN 1464-0600

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Abstract

Spatial cueing paradigms are popular tools to assess human attention to emotional stimuli, but different variants of these paradigms differ in what participants' primary task is. In one variant, participants indicate the location of the target (location task), whereas in the other they indicate the shape of the target (identification task). In the present paper we test the idea that although these two variants produce seemingly comparable cue validity effects on response times, they rest on different underlying processes. Across four studies (total N = 397; two in the supplement) using both variants and manipulating the motivational relevance of cue content, diffusion model analyses revealed that cue validity effects in location tasks are primarily driven by response biases, whereas the same effect rests on delay due to attention to the cue in identification tasks. Based on this, we predict and empirically support that a symmetrical distribution of valid and invalid cues would reduce cue validity effects in location tasks to a greater extent than in identification tasks. Across all variants of the task, we fail to replicate the effect of greater cue validity effects for arousing (vs. neutral) stimuli. We discuss the implications of these findings for best practice in spatial cueing research.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Imhoff, Roland UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0003-0807-463X UNSPECIFIED Lange, Jens UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0002-5375-3247 UNSPECIFIED Germar, Markus UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-156529
DOI:	10.1080/02699931.2018.1443433
Journal or Publication Title:	Cogn. Emot.
Volume:	33
Number:	2
Page Range:	S. 231 - 245
Date:	2019
Publisher:	ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
Place of Publication:	ABINGDON
ISSN:	1464-0600
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language ATTENTIONAL BIAS; THREAT; DISENGAGEMENT; ENGAGEMENT; ANXIETY; MEMORY; MOOD; FEAR Multiple languages Psychology, Experimental Multiple languages
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/15652