[ACT-R-users] New publication

[ion juvina]

Colleagues:

I am pleased to announce a new publication that might be of interest  
to you and your students:

Juvina, I., & Taatgen, N. A. (2009). A repetition-suppression account  
of between-trial effects in a modified Stroop paradigm. Acta  
Psychologica, 131(1), 72-84.

Abstract

Theories that postulate cognitive inhibition are very common in  
psychology and cognitive neuroscience (e.g., Hasher, Lustig, & Zacks,  
2007), although they have recently been severely criticized (e.g.,  
MacLeod, Dodd, Sheard, Wilson, & Bibi, 2003). This paper poses and  
attempts to answer the question whether a research program with  
cognitive inhibition as its main theoretical assumption is still worth  
pursuing. We present a set of empirical data from a modified Stroop  
paradigm that replicates previously reported findings. These findings  
refer to between-trial effects previously described in the literature  
on Stroop, negative priming, and inhibition-of-return. Existing  
theoretical accounts fail to explain all these effects in an  
integrated way. A repetition-suppression mechanism is proposed in  
order to account for these data. This mechanism is instantiated as a  
computational cognitive model. The theoretical implications of this  
model are discussed.


Please follow the link below to download the article:

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2009.03.002

If your institution does not have access to this journal, please feel  
free to email me for a free reprint.


Sincerely,

Ion Juvina,

Department of Psychology
Baker Hall 336A
Carnegie Mellon University
5000 Forbes Ave.
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

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