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Gepubliceerd in: Psychological Research 2/2021

25-11-2019 | Original Article

The role of the co-actor’s response reachability in the joint Simon effect: remapping of working space by tool use

Auteurs: Cristina Iani, Francesca Ciardo, Simone Panajoli, Luisa Lugli, Sandro Rubichi

Gepubliceerd in: Psychological Research | Uitgave 2/2021

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Abstract

The Simon effect, that is the advantage of the spatial correspondence between stimulus and response locations when stimulus location is task irrelevant, occurs even when the task is performed by two participants, each performing a go/no-go task. This effect, known as the joint Simon effect, does not emerge when participants sit outside each other’s peripersonal space, thus suggesting that the presence of an active confederate in peripersonal space might provide a reference for response coding. The present study investigated whether this finding is due to the distance separating the participants and/or to the distance separating each participant and the other agent’s response. In two experiments, pairs of participants performed a social detection task sitting outside each other’s arm reach, with response keys located close to the participants or outside arm reach. When the response key was located outside the participant’s arm reach, he/she could reach it by means of a tool. In Experiment 1, by means of a tool, participants could reach their response key only, while in Experiment 2, they could reach also their co-agent’s response key. The joint Simon effect did not emerge when participants could not reach the co-actor’s response, while it emerged when they could potentially reach the other participant’s response using the tool, but only when turn taking was required. These results may be taken as evidence that the possibility to reach and act upon the co-actor’s response key may be at the bases of compatibility effects observed in joint action contexts requiring complementary responses.
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We calculated a priori the sample size required to achieve 95% power to detect a significant interaction between session, trial type and correspondence with the G*power 3.1 (Faul, Erdfelder, Lang, & Buchner, 2007) software. With an effect size f = 0.25, the power calculation yielded a recommended sample size of at least 23 participants.
 
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Metagegevens
Titel
The role of the co-actor’s response reachability in the joint Simon effect: remapping of working space by tool use
Auteurs
Cristina Iani
Francesca Ciardo
Simone Panajoli
Luisa Lugli
Sandro Rubichi
Publicatiedatum
25-11-2019
Uitgeverij
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Gepubliceerd in
Psychological Research / Uitgave 2/2021
Print ISSN: 0340-0727
Elektronisch ISSN: 1430-2772
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-019-01271-6

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