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Gepubliceerd in: Psychological Research 4/2007

01-07-2007 | Original Article

Response coding in the Simon task

Auteurs: Katrin Wiegand, Edmund Wascher

Gepubliceerd in: Psychological Research | Uitgave 4/2007

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Abstract

Recent findings indicate that two distinct mechanisms can contribute to a Simon effect: a visuomotor information transmission on the one hand and a cognitive code interference on the other hand (see for e.g., Wiegand & Wascher, in Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 2005a). Furthermore, it was proposed that the occurrence of one or the other mechanism strongly depends on the way responses are coded. Visuomotor information transmission seems to depend on a correspondence between stimulus position and spatial anatomical status of the effector, whereas cognitive code interference is thought to be based on relative response location codes. To further test the spatial anatomic coding hypothesis, three experiments were conducted, in which the Simon effect with unimanual responses was investigated for horizontal (Experiment 1 and 2) and vertical (Experiment 3) stimulus–response (S–R) relations. Based on the finding of a decreasing effect function (indicating the presence of visuomotor information transmission) for horizontal and vertical S–R relations, it was concluded that visuomotor information transmission occurs whenever there is an overlap between the spatial stimulus feature and parameters of the motor representation of the response. Furthermore, the specific motor representation seems to be task dependent, that is, it entails those response parameters that clearly differentiate between the two response alternatives in a given task situation.
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It should be noted, that the effect function does not necessarily decrease linearly. In several experiments, an initially increasing and later decreasing (i.e., inverted u-shaped or j-shaped) effect function has been reported (e.g., Wascher et al., 2001). This initial increase for very fast RTs presumably shows that the automatic response activation takes some time to build up (i.e., to reach maximum influence)
 
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Metagegevens
Titel
Response coding in the Simon task
Auteurs
Katrin Wiegand
Edmund Wascher
Publicatiedatum
01-07-2007
Uitgeverij
Springer-Verlag
Gepubliceerd in
Psychological Research / Uitgave 4/2007
Print ISSN: 0340-0727
Elektronisch ISSN: 1430-2772
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-005-0027-1

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