Priming of Control: Implicit Contextual Cuing of Top-down Attentional Set

King, Korb, Egner · The Journal of Neuroscience · 2012 · neuroscience · 10.1523/jneurosci.0934-12.2012 · record King2012-priming-of-control-implicit-contextual-cuing
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dichotomy contextual cues top-down control interference resolution Top-down control settings are bound into episodic event-file representations, so that later presentation of another feature of that representation (the contextual cue) implicitly retrieves and reinstates the control setting. Experienced conflict triggers an arousal/noradrenergic response which, via Hebbian associative learning, binds the current bottom-up context representation to the top-down task/biasing representation. priming of control psychophysiological interaction (PPI) analysis conflict frequency context transition individual mean RT mean reaction times error rates ANOVA repeated-measures ANOVAs t-test voxelwise one-sample t tests regression second-level random effect group regression analysis binomial test correlation correlated with Monte Carlo simulation maximum likelihood estimation restricted maximum likelihood estimates of variance components fmri

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limitationsThe functional profile of mSPL was only sampled at two conflict-frequency levels and would need parametric variation of cues or load to be characterised properly.
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limitationsHow the reduced FFA lateralisation in the high-conflict context actually produces the behavioural benefit is not established.
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controlsthe first trial of each run and all responses faster than 150 ms or slower than 2000 ms were discarded - 1.6 per cent of trials
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controlsconflict frequency was manipulated BY LOCATION - one side of fixation 25 per cent congruent, the other the reverse
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eliminates: that a contextual control effect is a global strategy rather than one bound to a location · outcome (stated by the tagger, no quotation): held
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sensesA FALSE DICHOTOMY, NAMED AS SUCH: `Quotation withheld.` The distinction between bottom-up association and deliberate top-down control is the oldest working partition in this literature, and the paper's contribution is to show a case that sits on both sides of it - an ASSOCIATIVE trigger for a CONTROL state
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sensesPRIMING APPLIED TO A CONTROL SETTING - a fifth kind of thing for the word in this corpus, beside a concept, a behaviour, a goal and a sentence structure. `top-down control states can be bound into episodic event representations and can subsequently be primed by other features of those representations.` The claim is that a control configuration is storable and retrievable like any other feature of an episode, so the machinery already built for priming concepts applies to it unchanged
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sensesTHE MIRROR OF Kiefer2012, tagged earlier tonight. Kiefer argued that top-down configuration GATES unconscious processing - control reaching down into the automatic. This paper argues the other direction: an automatic associative cue TRIGGERS a control state. Between them the boundary is crossed both ways, and neither needs the other to be wrong. What is left of `automatic` after both is the pair of criteria Kiefer kept - not conscious, not deliberately initiated - and nothing about autonomy
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sensesAWARENESS CHECKED, NOT ASSUMED, AND THE CONCLUSION IS DEFINITIONAL: the effect occurred `despite the participant's lack of awareness of systematic variation in conflict frequency, illustrating the implicit nature of the phenomenon and delivering further evidence questioning the notion that controlled processing is inherently volitional`. A survey after scanning quantified what participants noticed. The target is not a finding but a property the word `controlled` is usually taken to carry
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direction on the measure: increases · strength of the relation: 0.9 · note: THE PAPER'S CLAIM, and the direction is the surprising half: the ASSOCIATIVE process is the cause and the CONTROL state is the effect, which is the reverse of how the dichotomy arranges them. 'suggestive of' is the hedge in this span - the fMRI result is what upgrades it, and that is a separate edge. Audit 2026-09-28: DOUBTFUL - read against its full span and kept, but implicit cues modulate performance 'in a way SUGGESTIVE of' triggering control states; causes is hedged.
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concept_edgescontextual cues —causes→ interference resolution
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direction on the measure: increases · strength of the relation: 0.9 · note: The behavioural expression, and the paper's own summary sentence. 'support the proposal' is its strength - this is an fMRI study confirming and localising a behavioural phenomenon rather than establishing it.
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content_tagsInterference (flanker congruency) effects in reaction time were smaller for stimuli appearing in the location associated with frequent conflict than in the low-conflict location.
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content_tagsTwo regions, left dorsal premotor cortex and right medial superior parietal lobule, showed the context-by-congruency interaction in hemodynamic activity.
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content_tagsmSPL activity for differential conflict processing covaried with activity in both visual cortex ROIs.
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content_tagsReduced interference was not evident on trials following a switch from the low- to the high-conflict context.
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content_tagsParticipants were essentially unaware of the location-based conflict-frequency manipulation, establishing that the effect is implicit.
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content_tagsFFA lateralization present in the low-conflict context was absent in the high-conflict context.
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content_tagsIndividual differences in the FFA lateralization reduction tracked individual differences in the behavioural interference reduction.
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content_tagspriming of control
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content_tags94 ms vs 123 ms — size of the flanker interference effect in the high-conflict versus low-conflict location
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content_tags25 — number of participants retained for analysis after exclusions
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content_tags93% — overall accuracy on the flanker task
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content_tags783 ms vs 674 ms — mean reaction time on incongruent versus congruent trials
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content_tagsp = 0.054 — binomial test on the 17-vs-8 split of participants correctly forced-choosing the high-conflict side, taken as evidence of implicit knowledge
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content_tags25% congruent/75% incongruent — the conflict-frequency ratio defining the high-conflict context (reversed for the low-conflict context)
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