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Interference in the shared-stroop task: a comparison of self- and other-monitoring

  • 1. University of Edinburgh
  • 2. Abertay University
  • 3. Cardiff University

Description

Co-acting participants represent and integrate each other's actions, even when they are not required to monitor one another. However, monitoring the actions of a partner is an important component of successful interactions, and particularly of linguistic interactions. Moreover, monitoring others may rely on similar mechanisms to those that are involved in self-monitoring. In order to investigate the effect of monitoring on shared linguistic representations, we combined a monitoring task with the shared Stroop task. In the shared Stroop task, one participant named the colour of words in one colour (e.g., red) while ignoring stimuli in the other colour (e.g., green); the other participant either named the colour of words in the other colour or did not respond. Crucially, participants either had to provide feedback about the correctness of their partner's response (Experiment 3) or did not (Experiment 2). The results showed that interference was greater when both participants responded than when they did not, but only when partners provided feedback. We argue that feedback increased joint task interference because in order to monitor their partner, participants had to represent their target utterance, and this representation interfered with self-monitoring of their own utterance.

Notes

The dataset includes two columns: RT reports the original onset latencies before any exclusion and before the trimming procedure. RTTrimmed reports the trimmed RT and it shows NA for values that were removed as outliers. See README for more details.

Funding provided by: Economic and Social Research Council
Crossref Funder Registry ID: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000269
Award Number: RES-062-23-0376

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Is cited by
https://psyarxiv.com/s359a/ (URL)
Is source of
10.5061/dryad.jwstqjq91 (DOI)