APS
30th APS Annual Convention · 2018
Acute Stress Can Improve Response Times on the Flanker Task without Affecting Accuracy: Converging Evidence from Both Cognitive Modeling and Mousetracker
- Grant Shields
University of California, Davis - Andrew Rivers
University of California, Davis - Michelle Ramey
University of California, Davis - Andrew Yonelinas
University of California, Davis
Abstract
We probed the effects of acute stress on flanker performance. Surprisingly, results from two tasks and cognitive modeling were consistent in showing that acute stress improved motor execution times but did not affect bottom-up or top-down attentional processes. Possible factors contributing to these effects will be discussed.
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