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3. Prolonging the response movement inhibits the feed-forward motor program in the sustained attention to response task

Author

Wilson, Kyle M., de Joux, Neil R., Finkbeiner, Kristin M., Russell, Paul N., Retzler, Jenny R., and Helton, William S.

Subjects
SART, Mind-wandering, Speed–accuracy trade-off, Response inhibition, Attention, Sustained attention
Abstract

Despite widespread use in clinical and experimental contexts, debate continues over whether or not the Sustained Attention to Response Task (SART) successfully measures sustained attention. Altering physical aspects of the response movement required to SART stimuli may help identify whether performance is a better measure of perceptual decoupling, or response strategies and motor inhibition. Participants completed a SART where they had to manually move a mouse cursor to respond to stimuli, and another SART where this extra movement was not required, as in a typical SART. Additionally, stimuli were located at either a close or a far distance away. Commission errors were inversely related to distance in the manual movement condition, as the farther distance led to longer response times which gave participants more time to inhibit prepotent responses and thus prevent commission errors. Self-reported measures of mental demand and fatigue suggested there were no differences in mental demands between the manual and automatic condition; instead the differences were primarily in physical demands. No differences were found for task-unrelated thoughts between the manual and automatic condition. The movement effect combined with participants' subjective reports are evidence for time dependent action stopping, not greater cognitive engagement. These findings support a response strategy perspective as opposed to a perceptual decoupling perspective, and have implications for authors considering using the SART. Applied implications of this research are also discussed.

Published
2018

4. The effect of task-relevant and irrelevant anxiety-provoking stimuli on response inhibition.

Author

Wilson, Kyle M., de Joux, Neil R., Finkbeiner, Kristin M., Russell, Paul N., and Helton, William S.

Subjects
*ANXIETY, *STIMULUS & response (Psychology), *RELEVANCE, *TASK performance, *EMOTIONS, *MIND-wandering
Abstract

The impact of anxiety-provoking stimuli on the Sustained Attention to Response Task (SART; Robertson, Manly, Andrade, Baddeley, & Yiend, 1997), and response inhibition more generally, is currently unclear. Participants completed four SARTs embedded with picture stimuli of two levels of emotion (negative or neutral) and two levels of task-relevance (predictive or non-predictive of imminent No-Go stimuli). Negative pictures had a small but detectable adverse effect on performance regardless of their task-relevance. Overall, response times and rates of commission errors were more dependent upon the predictive value (relevance) of the pictures than their attention-capturing nature (i.e., negative valence). The findings raise doubt over whether anxiety improves response inhibition, and also lend support to a response strategy perspective of SART performance, as opposed to a mindlessness or mind-wandering explanation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2016
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5. Spider stimuli improve response inhibition.

Author

Wilson, Kyle M., Russell, Paul N., and Helton, William S.

Subjects
*ANXIETY disorders, *COLLEGE students, *PERFORMANCE evaluation, *RESPONSE inhibition, *ATTENTION
Abstract

Anxiety can have positive effects on some aspects of cognition and negative effects on others. The current study investigated whether task-relevant anxiety could improve people’s ability to withhold responses in a response inhibition task. Sixty-seven university students completed a modified and an unmodified version of the Sustained Attention to Response Task (SART; Robertson, Manly, Andrade, Baddeley, & Yiend, 1997) and provided subjective measures of arousal and thoughts. Anxiety appeared to improve participants’ ability to withhold responses. Further, participants’ performance was consistent with a motor response inhibition perspective rather than a mind-wandering perspective of SART commission error performance. Errors of commission were associated with response times (speed-accuracy trade-off) as opposed to task-unrelated thoughts. Task-related thoughts were associated with the speed-accuracy trade-off. Conversely task-unrelated thoughts showed an association with errors of omission, suggesting this SART metric could be an indicator of sustained attention. Further investigation of the role of thoughts in the SART is warranted. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2015
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