TY  - JOUR
A1  - Pfister, Roland
A1  - Frings, Christian
A1  - Moeller, Birte
T1  - The Role of Congruency for Distractor-Response Binding: A Caveat
JF  - Advances in Cognitive Psychologe
N2  - Responding in the presence of stimuli leads to an integration of stimulus features and response features into event fles, which can later be retrieved to assist action control. This integration mechanism is not limited to target stimuli, but can also include distractors (distractor-response binding). A recurring research question is which factors determine whether or not distractors are integrated. One suggested candidate factor is target-distractor congruency: Distractor-response binding effects were reported to be stronger for congruent than for incongruent target-distractor pairs. Here, we discuss a general problem with including the factor of congruency in typical analyses used to study distractor-based binding effects. Integrating this factor leads to a confound that may explain any differences between distractor-response binding effects of congruent and incongruent distractors with a simple congruency effect. Simulation data confrmed this argument. We propose to interpret previous data cautiously and discuss potential avenues to circumvent this problem in the future.
KW  - action control
KW  - distractor-response binding
KW  - congruency sequences
KW  - sequence analysis
Y1  - 2019
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-200265
VL  - 15
IS  - 2
ER  -