TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2012//
TI  - Testing theories of post-error slowing
JO  - Attention, perception and psychophysics
A1  - Dutilh, Gilles
A1  - Vandekerckhove, Joachim
A1  - Forstmann, Birte U.
A1  - Keuleers, Emmanuel
A1  - Brysbaert, Marc
A1  - Wagenmakers, Eric-Jan
SP  - 454
EP  - 465
VL  - 74
IS  - 2
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 1943-3921
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13414-011-0243-2
ID  - ref1
ER  -