Response and encoding factors in “ignoring” irrelevant information
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Any information not relevant to satisfying compulsions is not only meaningless but may be entirely ignored.
“Any information not relevant to satisfying compulsions is not only meaningless but may be entirely ignored, which is consistent with observations of human behaviour [6,5] (i.e. one may be unable to perceive something in the stream of sensorimotor stimuli because it is filtered out).”
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The Results and Discussion (p. 93) report that, under a suitable response condition, interference from irrelevant information could be substantially eliminated. The paper does not discuss compulsions or call such information meaningless; it also shows that irrelevant information can produce substantial interference, so it does not establish that any irrelevant information may be entirely ignored or unperceived. (LLM, conf=0.86)
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“Any information not relevant to satisfying compulsions is not only meaningless but may be entirely ignored, which is consistent with observations of human behaviour [6,5] (i.e. one may be unable to perceive something in the stream of sensorimotor stimuli because it is filtered out).”
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- Authors
- Flowers, J. H., Warner, J. L., & Polansky, M. L.
- Affiliations
- University of Nebraska–Lincoln (US)
- Venue
- Memory & Cognition
- Published
- 1979-03
- Volume
- 7
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 86-94
- ISSN
- 0090-502X (ISSN-L)
- 1532-5946
- OpenAlex
- W2017976041
- Cited by
- 60
- References
- 33
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- 2026: 1 · 2025: 3 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 3 · 2018: 1 · 2017: 2 · 2015: 1 · 2014: 2 · 2013: 1 · 2012: 1
- FWCI
- 0.94
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- Memory & Cognition (publishedVersion)
- Lincoln (University of Nebraska) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institutes of Health
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Cognitive Abilities and Testing
- Physical Sciences › Mathematics › Statistics and Probability › Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills
- Keywords
- irrelevant information, response mapping, stimulus-response mapping, stimulus-response compatibility, incongruent stimuli, numerosity, card sorting
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