@article{ref1,
title="Trial-to-trial modulations of the Simon effect in conditions of attentional limitations: Evidence from dual tasks",
journal="Journal of experimental psychology: human perception and performance",
year="2010",
author="Fischer, Rico and Plessow, Franziska and Kunde, Wilfried and Kiesel, Andrea",
volume="36",
number="6",
pages="1576-1594",
abstract="Interference effects are reduced after trials including response conflict. This sequential modulation has often been attributed to a top-down mediated adaptive control mechanism and/or to feature repetition mechanisms. In the present study we tested whether mechanisms responsible for such sequential modulations are subject to attentional limitations under dual-task situations. Participants performed a Simon task in mixed single- and dual-task contexts (Experiment 1), in blocked contexts with dual-task load either, in trialN (Experiment 2a), in trialN - 1 (Experiment 2b), or in both trials (Experiment 3). Results showed that the occurrence of a sequential modulation did not depend on dual-task load per se as it occurred predominantly in conditions of lowest and highest task load. Instead, task factors such as the repetition of task episodes and stimulus-response repetitions determined whether a sequential modulation occurred. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved).<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0096-1523",
doi="10.1037/a0019326",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0019326"
}