TY - JOUR
T1 - ERP correlates of a flanker task with varying levels of analytic-holistic cognitive style
AU - Hsieh, Shulan
AU - Yu, Yen Ting
AU - Chen, En Ho
AU - Yang, Cheng Ta
AU - Wang, Chun Hao
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by grants from the Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan ( MOST 106-2811-H-006-010 to Y.-T. Yu; MOST 106-2420-H-006-004 to C.-T. Yang; MOST 106-2420-H-006-006 C.-H. Wang; MOST 106-2420-H-006-005-MY2 and 108-2321-B-006-022-MY2 to S. Hsieh), and National Cheng Kung University (NCKU Rising-Star Top-Notch Project Grant to C.-T. Yang). We thank the Mind Research and Imaging Center (MRIC), supported by MOST, at NCKU for consultation and instrument availability.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 Elsevier Ltd
PY - 2020/1/15
Y1 - 2020/1/15
N2 - This study aimed to determine whether individual differences in analytic-holistic cognitive style are associated with flanker task performance and, furthermore, to pinpoint at what stage(s) of information processing this association occurs, as indexed by event-related potential (ERP) components. The first experiment demonstrated that age-related differences in flanker cost were associated with the analytic-holistic cognitive style, as measured by the Analysis-Holism Scale (AHS). The second experiment used concurrent electroencephalographic recordings to identify significant correlations between AHS scores and ERP components, including N1 amplitude, P3 latency, stimulus-locked lateralized readiness potential (LRP) amplitude, and response-locked LRP amplitude. These results suggest that individuals with more holistic cognitive styles have wider attentional windows, which might explain the general behavioral effect on flanker task performance. Furthermore, these individuals also exhibited greater flanker interference at the specific processing stages of stimulus evaluation, response selection, and motor preparation, as evidenced by ERPs. This is one of the few studies to investigate the relationship between the analytic-holistic cognitive style and flanker task performance using the ERP approach. The results provide neural correlates regarding how individual differences in analytic-holistic cognitive style might be associated with information processing.
AB - This study aimed to determine whether individual differences in analytic-holistic cognitive style are associated with flanker task performance and, furthermore, to pinpoint at what stage(s) of information processing this association occurs, as indexed by event-related potential (ERP) components. The first experiment demonstrated that age-related differences in flanker cost were associated with the analytic-holistic cognitive style, as measured by the Analysis-Holism Scale (AHS). The second experiment used concurrent electroencephalographic recordings to identify significant correlations between AHS scores and ERP components, including N1 amplitude, P3 latency, stimulus-locked lateralized readiness potential (LRP) amplitude, and response-locked LRP amplitude. These results suggest that individuals with more holistic cognitive styles have wider attentional windows, which might explain the general behavioral effect on flanker task performance. Furthermore, these individuals also exhibited greater flanker interference at the specific processing stages of stimulus evaluation, response selection, and motor preparation, as evidenced by ERPs. This is one of the few studies to investigate the relationship between the analytic-holistic cognitive style and flanker task performance using the ERP approach. The results provide neural correlates regarding how individual differences in analytic-holistic cognitive style might be associated with information processing.
KW - Analysis-Holism scale
KW - Cognitive style
KW - Event-related potential
KW - Flanker task
KW - Individual difference
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85074127927&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/citedby.url?scp=85074127927&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.paid.2019.109673
DO - 10.1016/j.paid.2019.109673
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85074127927
SN - 0191-8869
VL - 153
JO - Personality and Individual Differences
JF - Personality and Individual Differences
M1 - 109673
ER -