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Rule reactivation and capture errors in goal directed behaviour.

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dc.creator Roca, María
dc.creator García, Milagros
dc.creator Torres Ardila, María Juliana
dc.creator González Gadea, María Luz
dc.creator Torralva, Teresa
dc.creator Ferrari, Jesica
dc.creator Ibáñez, Agustín
dc.creator Manes, Facundo
dc.creator Duncan, John
dc.date 2018-03-13T16:16:29Z
dc.date 2018-03-13T16:16:29Z
dc.date.accessioned 2019-03-20T08:23:08Z
dc.date.available 2019-03-20T08:23:08Z
dc.identifier https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/273971
dc.identifier 10.17863/CAM.21043
dc.identifier.uri https://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/32235
dc.description In everyday life people may act automatically, following "unwanted" lines of action which are triggered by contextual cues and may interfere with current goals. Such occurrences are known as "capture errors" in reference to errors that occur when a more salient behaviour takes place when a similar, but less salient, action was intended. Clinical neuropsychological studies suggest that reactivation of previous rules may play an important role in behavioural interference, but such reactivation has been little studied in normal subjects and simple experimental tasks. In the present study we develop this theme, presenting data on 4 subjects who spontaneously showed capture errors in verbal fluency tasks, and developing a new experimental paradigm specifically designed to elicit such interference in normal subjects. In the new paradigm, 101 normal subjects performed a simple series of working memory tasks, including occasional stimuli whose answer matched both the current and the previous rule. We found that normal controls indeed tend to commit more mistakes after the presentation of a stimulus whose answer is consistent with a current and preceding rule. In this case, however, the errors produced are not necessarily associated with a shift back to the old rule, suggesting that rule reactivation leads to a more general interference effect. We discuss the importance of our data from both theoretical and clinical perspectives.
dc.description This work was supported by Medical Research Council (UK) intramural program [grant number MC-A060-5PQ10], CONICYT/FONDECYT Regular [grant number 1170010], PICT [grant number 2012-0412], PICT [grant number 2012-1309], CONICET, CONICYT/FONDAP [grant number 15150012]; and the INECO Foundation.
dc.language eng
dc.publisher Elsevier
dc.publisher Cortex
dc.rights Attribution 4.0 International
dc.rights http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subject capture errors
dc.subject fluid intelligence
dc.subject goal neglect
dc.subject rule interference
dc.title Rule reactivation and capture errors in goal directed behaviour.
dc.type Article


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