@article{ref1,
title="Testing theories of post-error slowing",
journal="Attention, perception and psychophysics",
year="2012",
author="Dutilh, Gilles and Vandekerckhove, Joachim and Forstmann, Birte U. and Keuleers, Emmanuel and Brysbaert, Marc and Wagenmakers, Eric-Jan",
volume="74",
number="2",
pages="454-465",
abstract="People tend to slow down after they make an error. This phenomenon, generally referred to as post-error slowing, has been hypothesized to reflect perceptual distraction, time wasted on irrelevant processes, an a priori bias against the response made in error, increased variability in a priori bias, or an increase in response caution. Although the response caution interpretation has dominated the empirical literature, little research has attempted to test this interpretation in the context of a formal process model. Here, we used the drift diffusion model to isolate and identify the psychological processes responsible for post-error slowing. In a very large lexical decision data set, we found that post-error slowing was associated with an increase in response caution and-to a lesser extent-a change in response bias. In the present data set, we found no evidence that post-error slowing is caused by perceptual distraction or time wasted on irrelevant processes. These results support a response-monitoring account of post-error slowing.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1943-3921",
doi="10.3758/s13414-011-0243-2",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13414-011-0243-2"
}