Manipulations of attention enhance self-regulation.
Successful goal-directed behavior requires self-regulation to override competing impulses. Emerging evidence suggests that attention may mediate such acts, but little is known about the specific operations through which attention might influence self-regulation. Here we test this often-implicit assu...
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| author | Hanif, A Ferrey, A Frischen, A Pozzobon, K Eastwood, J Smilek, D Fenske, M |
| author_facet | Hanif, A Ferrey, A Frischen, A Pozzobon, K Eastwood, J Smilek, D Fenske, M |
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| description | Successful goal-directed behavior requires self-regulation to override competing impulses. Emerging evidence suggests that attention may mediate such acts, but little is known about the specific operations through which attention might influence self-regulation. Here we test this often-implicit assumption by manipulating attention mechanisms in two ways: one controlling the inhibition of inappropriate responses; the other controlling the breadth of attention. Participants significantly improved their performance on a self-regulation task after practice on a response inhibition task (Experiment 1) and after the induction of a broad focus of attention in a visual discrimination task (Experiment 2). We propose that such manipulations enhance self-regulation by engaging mechanisms that enhance the salience of goal-related representations and reduce the activation of competing goal-irrelevant neural representations. By more efficiently resolving conflict among the signals vying to drive behavior, pre-engaging attention may also help to conserve resources needed for continued self-regulation. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:1783e99c-3761-4174-8c60-05d77c81bd5d2022-03-26T10:37:40ZManipulations of attention enhance self-regulation.Journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:1783e99c-3761-4174-8c60-05d77c81bd5dEnglishSymplectic Elements at Oxford2012Hanif, AFerrey, AFrischen, APozzobon, KEastwood, JSmilek, DFenske, MSuccessful goal-directed behavior requires self-regulation to override competing impulses. Emerging evidence suggests that attention may mediate such acts, but little is known about the specific operations through which attention might influence self-regulation. Here we test this often-implicit assumption by manipulating attention mechanisms in two ways: one controlling the inhibition of inappropriate responses; the other controlling the breadth of attention. Participants significantly improved their performance on a self-regulation task after practice on a response inhibition task (Experiment 1) and after the induction of a broad focus of attention in a visual discrimination task (Experiment 2). We propose that such manipulations enhance self-regulation by engaging mechanisms that enhance the salience of goal-related representations and reduce the activation of competing goal-irrelevant neural representations. By more efficiently resolving conflict among the signals vying to drive behavior, pre-engaging attention may also help to conserve resources needed for continued self-regulation. |
| spellingShingle | Hanif, A Ferrey, A Frischen, A Pozzobon, K Eastwood, J Smilek, D Fenske, M Manipulations of attention enhance self-regulation. |
| title | Manipulations of attention enhance self-regulation. |
| title_full | Manipulations of attention enhance self-regulation. |
| title_fullStr | Manipulations of attention enhance self-regulation. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Manipulations of attention enhance self-regulation. |
| title_short | Manipulations of attention enhance self-regulation. |
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