TY  - JOUR
A1  - Pfister, Roland
A1  - Foerster, Anna
T1  - How to measure post-error slowing: The case of pre-error speeding
JF  - Behavior Research Methods
N2  - Post-error slowing is one of the most widely employed measures to study cognitive and behavioral consequences of error commission. Several methods have been proposed to quantify the post-error slowing effect, and we discuss two main methods: The traditional method of comparing response times in correct post-error trials to response times of correct trials that follow another correct trial, and a more recent proposal of comparing response times in correct post-error trials to the corresponding correct pre-error trials. Based on thorough re-analyses of two datasets, we argue that the latter method provides an inflated estimate by also capturing the (partially) independent effect of pre-error speeding. We propose two solutions for improving the assessment of human error processing, both of which highlight the importance of distinguishing between initial pre-error speeding and later post-error slowing.
KW  - response-time analysis
KW  - post-error slowing
KW  - pre-error speeding
KW  - performance monitoring
Y1  - 2022
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-273244
SN  - 1554-3528
VL  - 54
IS  - 1
ER  -