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2021 APS Virtual Convention · 2021

Involuntary Mental Imagery Elicited By Distractors in a Flanker Task

Virtual · May 2021

Posters · Cognitive Psychology

  • Yanming Li
    San Francisco State University
  • Dennis Lambert
    San Francisco State University
  • Ellyn Daly
    San Francisco State University
  • Ezequiel Morsella
    San Francisco State University
  • Ezequiel Morsella
    University of California, San Francisco

Abstract

Subjects (n = 68) performed a variant of the classic flanker task in which distractors activated both action-codes, leading to response interference, and high-level conscious phenomena (mental imagery and action-related urges).

Attention and Distraction