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Processing a Display Even after you Make a Response to it. How Perceptual Errors can be Corrected

Rabbitt, Patrick, Vyas, Subhash·1981·The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section A
DOI 10.1080/14640748108400790
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We know that when people make responses which they did not intend they can discover this by monitoring kinaesthetic and visual feedback. It is less clear whether they can also correct perceptual errors which occur when they mistake one signal for another. It was argued that, if they can sometimes do this, extra errors which occur when discriminations become more difficult may be detected and corrected. Experiment I compared the ability of young fit subjects to detect errors made during easy and during difficult discriminations between tone signals. There was no evidence that any additional errors made to difficult discriminations were detected. Fast errors were detected, slower errors were not. The results were consistent with the idea that subjects can detect fast motor errors by monitoring feedback, but that they cannot detect perceptual mistakes. In Experiment II subjects made easy and difficult line length discriminations. Displays lasted for 100 ms, 200 ms or 500 ms and were followed by random masks. In this case, fast errors were again corrected more frequently than slow errors but eight aspects of the data suggest that subjects could, and did, correct perceptual as well as motor mistakes and that they managed to do this by continuing to process a display after the moment at which they may have initiated an impulsive response to it. The data are interpreted in terms of a “Committee Decision” model for extended perceptual processing previously applied to other, similar data by Rabbitt and Rodgers (1977) and Rabbitt, Cumming and Vyas (1978).

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  • In some instances, changes of mind can lead to the correction of an initial error.

    “In some instances, such changes can lead to the correction of an initial error12,13.”

    From Changes of mind in decision-making (2009) · cites this paper as [12]

  • The observation provides evidence against two main alternatives to post-initiation processing: (1) change of decision based on recall and/or reconsideration of evidence acquired before initiation, and (2) a correction of an initial motor error perhaps owing to confusion about the stimulus-response mapping.

    “The observation provides evidence against two main alternatives to post-initiation processing: (1) change of decision based on recall and/or reconsideration of evidence acquired before initiation18, and (2) a correction of an initial motor error perhaps owing to confusion about the stimulus-response mapping12.”

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  • The proposed mechanism would not explain corrections of initial errors that arise from confusion about stimulus-response associations.

    “For example, it would not explain corrections of initial errors that arise from confusion about stimulus-response associations12.”

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Authors
Rabbitt, P., & Vyas, S.
Affiliations
University of Oxford (GB)
Venue
The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section A
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Published
1981-08
Volume
33
Issue
3
Pages
223-239
ISSN
  • 0272-4987 (ISSN-L)
  • 1464-0740
DOI
10.1080/14640748108400790
OpenAlex
W2137321699
Cited by
97
References
28
Citations by year
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FWCI
0.52
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license (tdm)
Locations
The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section A (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Motor Control and Adaptation
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Visual perception and processing mechanisms
Keywords
perceptual errors, error detection, error correction, tone discrimination, display duration, impulsive response

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