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Eriksen flanker task
A task in which participants view stimuli (typically arrows) presented one at a time and to which they must make a simple lexical response. These stimuli are surrounded by either distracting or facilitating items. Distracting items are typically associated with an opposite response ("incongruent" = pointing in opposite direction to target stimulus), whereas facilitating items are typically associated with the same response as the target stimulus ("congruent" = pointing in the same direction as the target stimulus).

Synonyms: flanker task


Definition contributed by RPoldrack about four months ago.


Task records: 3  

attentional focusing
  • Please add a contrast
 

executive function
  • incongruent response time - congruent response time
 

inhibition
  • incongruent response time - congruent response time
 


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Definition contributed by ALenartowicz about three years ago:

A task in which participants view stimuli (typically arrows) presented one at a time and to which they must make a simple lexical response. These stimuli are surrounded by either distracting or facilitating items. Distracting items are typically associated with an opposite response ("incongruent" = pointing in opposite direction to target stimulus), whereas facilitating items are typically associated with the same response as the target stimulus ("congruent" = pointing in the same direction as the target stimulus).

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N200 in the flanker task as a neurobehavioral tool for investigating executive control.
Kopp B, Rist F, Mattler U
(Psychophysiology)
1996 May
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Sex differences in electrophysiological indices of conflict monitoring.
Clayson PE, Clawson A, Larson MJ
Biological psychology (Biol Psychol)
2011 May
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The Eriksen flanker effect revisited.
Sanders AF, Lamers JM
(Acta Psychol (Amst))
2002 Jan
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