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Jones, Katie, Watson, Derrick G. and Kunar, Melina A. (2015) I know what you’re doing! Awareness of other people’s intentions interfere with cognitive task performance. In: European Conference on Visual Perception, Liverpool, 23-27 Aug 2015
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Abstract
In shared environments it can be advantageous to have an awareness of the goals and intentions of others. Recent research has found that co-actors form a representation of each other’s tasks even when neither necessary nor beneficial to their own performance. The current study used a novel method to investigate task interference between individuals who have differing intentional relations to a jointly attended stimulus. Pairs of participants were shown the same stimulus (a letter surrounded by two squares of different colours, superimposed at 0 and 45 degrees) on a shared display. Each participant was given their own instruction set asking them to indicate whether a specific conjunction of features was present in the stimulus. Both co-actors were looking for a vowel (shared criterion) in addition to an individually assigned colour present in either of the squares (non-shared criterion). Reaction times and error rates were influenced by which of the co-actor’s target features were present in the stimulus, despite being irrelevant to task goals. Importantly, this was only the case when participants were explicitly aware of their co-actor’s instructions. These findings provide evidence that it is difficult to suppress irrelevant representations of a co-actor’s task, even when detrimental to individual performance.
| Item Type: | Conference Item (Other) | ||||
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor | ||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School | ||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Decision making | ||||
| Official Date: | 29 May 2015 | ||||
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| Date of first compliant deposit: | 11 March 2016 | ||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
| Conference Paper Type: | Other | ||||
| Title of Event: | European Conference on Visual Perception | ||||
| Type of Event: | Conference | ||||
| Location of Event: | Liverpool | ||||
| Date(s) of Event: | 23-27 Aug 2015 |
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