Unpredictability impairs goal-directed target processing and performance
Abstract
Unpredictability influences emotion and attention, but its effects on goal-directed behavior are unclear. We examined whether unpredictable events interfere with performance, using event-related potentials to specify underlying attentional dynamics. The paradigm involved task-irrelevant distracters of either predictable or unpredictable content (neutral/negative) preceding targets of a stimulus discrimination task. Mean and single-trial analyses...
Paper Details
Title
Unpredictability impairs goal-directed target processing and performance
Published Date
Mar 1, 2019
Journal
Volume
142
Pages
29 - 36
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