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Röttger, Eva ORCID: 0000-0003-0794-3274 and Haider, Hilde ORCID: 0000-0001-7293-3166 (2017). Investigating the characteristics of "not responding": backward crosstalk in the PRP paradigm with forced vs. free no-go decisions. Psychol. Res.-Psychol. Forsch., 81 (3). S. 596 - 611. HEIDELBERG: SPRINGER HEIDELBERG. ISSN 1430-2772

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Abstract

Have you ever thought about what it means not to act? Basically, most people think about nonactions (or not responding'') as depending on the existence of a pre-activated response which is then inhibited. The main problem when investigating the characteristics of such no-go responses is that they do not provide reaction times. Importantly, Miller (Psychol Res 70: 484-493, 2006) recently showed that in a dual-task paradigm, forced go/no-go decisions in the secondary task lead to a backward crosstalk effect (BCE) in the reaction times of the primary task. Based on this experimental setup, we conducted three experiments to investigate the characteristics of not responding.'' The goal of Experiments 1 and 2 was to compare forced-choice and free-choice no-go responses. In both experiments, we only found a BCE when participants were forced not to respond. We interpret these findings as a first hint that the BCE is not due to an active inhibition of a pre-activated response tendency. Rather, we assume that it is caused by an automatic activation of specific response features when merely perceiving the secondary stimulus (Hommel, J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform 24: 1368-1384, 1998). In the forced-choice condition, the stimulus unambiguously announces a no-go response. By contrast, this is not the case in the free-choice condition as here the stimulus only signals participants to freely decide to go''or not to go.'' Therefore, we tested in Experiment 3 rather directly if merely perceiving a stimulus unambiguously announcing a no-go'' causes a BCE. The results confirmed this. Overall, our results suggest that no-go responses do not differ conceptually from go responses.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Röttger, Eva roettger.eva@web.de orcid.org/0000-0003-0794-3274 UNSPECIFIED Haider, Hilde UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0001-7293-3166 UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-233516
DOI:	10.1007/s00426-016-0772-3
Journal or Publication Title:	Psychol. Res.-Psychol. Forsch.
Volume:	81
Number:	3
Page Range:	S. 596 - 611
Date:	2017
Publisher:	SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
Place of Publication:	HEIDELBERG
ISSN:	1430-2772
Language:	English
Faculty:	Faculty of Human Sciences
Divisions:	Faculty of Human Sciences > Department Psychologie
Subjects:	Psychology
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language PSYCHOLOGICAL REFRACTORY PERIOD; DUAL-TASK PERFORMANCE; CENTRAL BOTTLENECK; PROCESSING STAGES; PARALLEL MEMORY; MOTOR CONTROL; GO/NO-GO; SITUATIONS; RETRIEVAL; FRAMEWORK Multiple languages Psychology, Experimental Multiple languages
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/23351