%0 Journal Article
%T Testing theories of post-error slowing
%J Attention, perception and psychophysics
%D 2012
%A Dutilh, Gilles
%A Vandekerckhove, Joachim
%A Forstmann, Birte U.
%A Keuleers, Emmanuel
%A Brysbaert, Marc
%A Wagenmakers, Eric-Jan
%V 74
%N 2
%P 454-465
%X 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>
%G en
%I Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group
%@ 1943-3921
%U http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13414-011-0243-2