The Erikson Flanker Task is used to evaluate the ability to suppress inappropriate responses in a particular context. In the Flanker task, you have three types of flankers. A target can be flanked by distractors that are either congruent flankers (similar to target), incongruent flankers (opposite to target) or neutral flankers (neither similar or opposite). When viewing a central target amongst distractors, although attention is directed on that central target, the distractors are also processed. In the Flanker Task, distractor interference is viewed as a result of unintentional and involuntary processes that is a by-product of target processing. Due to this, past studies have concluded that only targets received top-down processing and that
