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To Repeat or Not to Repeat: The Time Course of Response Suppression in Sequential Behaviour

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Data from the study of human speech, spelling, and short-term memory for serial order are often taken to reflect the operation of post-output response suppression mechanisms. This inhibitory processing forms a central component of many models of human sequential behaviour. In this paper an oscillator-based model of sequential behaviour is used to show that varying the time-course of response suppression, in accordance with task demands, can explain differences in the error patterns produced in different sequential cognitive tasks. More specifically, we show that increasing the response suppression in a model of speech production causes the model’s error patterns to change and become similar to those observed in human short-term memory for serial order.

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  1. University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL, UK

    Janet I. Vousden & Gordon D. A. Brown

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  1. Centre for Speech and Language, Department of Psychology, Birkbeck College, University of London, Malet Street, WC1E 7HX, London, UK

    John A. Bullinaria BSc, MSc, PhD

  2. Department of Psychology, University College London, Gower Street, WC1E 6BT, London, UK

    David W. Glasspool BSc, Msc  & George Houghton BA, MSc, PhD  & 

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Vousden, J.I., Brown, G.D.A. (1998). To Repeat or Not to Repeat: The Time Course of Response Suppression in Sequential Behaviour. In: Bullinaria, J.A., Glasspool, D.W., Houghton, G. (eds) 4th Neural Computation and Psychology Workshop, London, 9–11 April 1997. Perspectives in Neural Computing. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-1546-5_23

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