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

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

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Priming of Control: Implicit Contextual Cuing of Top-down Attentional Set 2012 The Journal of Neuroscience 10.1523/jneurosci.0934-12.2012 King2012-priming-of-control-implicit-contextual-cuing King2012-priming-of-control-implicit-contextual-cuing.txt, the project's staged copy 2ad69fb03b9e294e08a5bf06e57692d411576a63 not-redistributable neuroscience

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0 spans located by searching the stored text for the quote's exact words, allowing any whitespace between them mechanism Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. context-specific improvements in interference resolution (priming of control) Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. fmri fmri Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. mechanisms 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. status: the paper's own words: we propose that Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. mechanisms 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. Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. The 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. Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. How the reduced FFA lateralisation in the high-conflict context actually produces the behavioural benefit is not established. Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. the stimulus-response mapping was counterbalanced across subjects eliminates: that a conflict effect is a fixed stimulus-response preference · outcome (stated by the tagger, no quotation): held Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. the 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 eliminates: that the mean is pulled by anticipations and lapses rather than by the manipulation · outcome (stated by the tagger, no quotation): held Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. conflict frequency was manipulated BY LOCATION - one side of fixation 25 per cent congruent, the other the reverse 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 Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. dichotomy dichotomy Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. contextual cues contextual cues Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. top-down control top-down control Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. interference resolution interference resolution Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. A 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 Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. PRIMING 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 Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. THE 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 Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. AWARENESS 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 Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. extends → Vandenberghe et al., 2001; Yantis et al., 2002; Serences et al., 2004; Shulman et al., 2009 Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. replicates → Crump et al., 2006 Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. contextual cues —causes→ top-down control contextual cues top-down control 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. Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. contextual cues —causes→ interference resolution contextual cues interference resolution 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. Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. ANOVA ANOVA Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. t-test t-test Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. regression regression Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. binomial test binomial test Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. correlation correlation Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. Monte Carlo simulation Monte Carlo simulation Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. maximum likelihood estimation maximum likelihood estimation Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. Interference (flanker congruency) effects in reaction time were smaller for stimuli appearing in the location associated with frequent conflict than in the low-conflict location. Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. Two regions, left dorsal premotor cortex and right medial superior parietal lobule, showed the context-by-congruency interaction in hemodynamic activity. Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. mSPL activity for differential conflict processing covaried with activity in both visual cortex ROIs. Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. Reduced interference was not evident on trials following a switch from the low- to the high-conflict context. Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. Participants were essentially unaware of the location-based conflict-frequency manipulation, establishing that the effect is implicit. Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. FFA lateralization present in the low-conflict context was absent in the high-conflict context. Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. Individual differences in the FFA lateralization reduction tracked individual differences in the behavioural interference reduction. Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. priming of control priming of control Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. psychophysiological interaction (PPI) analysis psychophysiological interaction (PPI) analysis Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. conflict frequency conflict frequency Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. context transition context transition Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. individual mean RT individual mean RT Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. mean reaction times mean reaction times Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. error rates error rates Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. 94 ms vs 123 ms — size of the flanker interference effect in the high-conflict versus low-conflict location Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. 25 — number of participants retained for analysis after exclusions Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. 93% — overall accuracy on the flanker task Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. 783 ms vs 674 ms — mean reaction time on incongruent versus congruent trials Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. p = 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 Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. 25% congruent/75% incongruent — the conflict-frequency ratio defining the high-conflict context (reversed for the low-conflict context) Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution.

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