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According to the automatic response activation hypothesis of the dimensional overlap (DO) model (Kornblum, Stevens, Whipple, & Requin, 1999), stimulus-response compatibility effects are expected to occur in go-no-go tasks. This prediction is confirmed in two experiments in which subjects moved a hand to one side of the field on presentation of a go stimulus. Although the direction of movement was known in advance and the spatial attribute of the go stimuli was irrelevant to the go-no-go decision, the subjects’ response time was shorter when the spatial attribute of the go stimulus corresponded to that of the response than when it did not. These effects are shown to depend on the similarity of the go and the no-go stimuli, as well as on whether the spatial attribute of the go stimuli was its actual location or its meaning. We discuss these results in terms of the temporal dynamics of automatic and controlled response processes, as hypothesized in the DO model.
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This research was supported by AFOSR Grant F49620-94-1 -0020 to S.K.
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Shiu, LP., Kornblum, S. Stimulus-response compatibility effects in go-no-go tasks: A dimensional overlap account. Perception & Psychophysics 61, 1613–1623 (1999). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03213122
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