@article{5aad099dff9c43bb855ad8b8ec23f176,
title = "Testing the attention-shift hypothesis as an account for the flanker-sequence based congruency modulation in spatial flanker tasks.",
abstract = "Decreased Simon effects when stimulus locations are repeated on successive trials as compared to alternated have been explained by the attention-shift hypothesis, suggesting that shifts of attention result in interfering response codes. We investigated whether the attention-shift hypothesis can also explain decreased flanker effects for repeated flankers as compared to alternated flankers, which only occurs with directional information. In three peripheral letter identification tasks, target locations were cued by partial or complete flanker stimuli. Experiment 1 & 2 showed that directional flankers elicit shifts of attention. Experiment 3, however, revealed that directional flankers induced inverted cueing effects when reacting to the central target arrow was additionally required. These results are difficult to reconcile with the attention-shift hypothesis as an explanation for the congruency reduction with repetitions of directional flankers.",
keywords = "spatial attention, cognitive control",
author = "Peter Zeischka and Natacha Deroost and David Henderickx and Eric Soetens",
year = "2010",
month = jun,
day = "1",
doi = "https://doi.org/10.5406/amerjpsyc.123.3.0337",
language = "English",
volume = "123",
pages = "337--351",
journal = "American Journal of Psychology",
issn = "0002-9556",
publisher = "University of Illinois Press",
number = "3",
}