Implicit adaptation to frequencies of time-event combinations

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DFG HO 1301/13-1, 13-2
"Unwillkürliche Verhaltensanpassung an zeitpunktbezogene Verhaltensanforderungen"

Roland Thomaschke, Annika Wagener, Andrea Kiesel & Joachim Hoffmann

Since about one century, or so, cognitive psychology has intensely investigated automatic attentional adaptation to event-frequencies, as well as to frequencies of intervals before events. This project integrates both research traditions by investigating automatic adaptation to frequencies of event-time combinations. Wagener and Hoffmann (in press) have shown that choice reactions are faster and less error prone when the stimuli appear after stimulus-typical intervals as when they appear after stimulus-atypical intervals. We investigate the cognitive mechanisms underlying this adaptation phenomenon. Is it due to motor or perceptual preparation? How does it interact with other types of attention (e.g., spatial)? Is time-event specific preparation modulated by context? ...

• Lohmann, J., Herbort, O., Wagener, A., & Kiesel, A. (2009). Anticipation of Time Spans: New Data from the Foreperiod Paradigm and the Adaptation of a Computational Model. In G. Pezzulo, M. V. Butz, O. Sigaud, & G. Baldassarre (Eds.), ABiALS 2008 (pp. 170-187). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

Updated:  19.01.2010