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01-01-2006 | Original Article

The spatial mismatch effect is based on global configuration and not on perceptual records within the visual cache

Auteurs: Hubert D. Zimmer, Günther Lehnert

Gepubliceerd in: Psychological Research | Uitgave 1/2006

Abstract

If configurations of objects are presented in a S1–S2 matching task for the identity of objects a spatial mismatch effect occurs. Changing the (irrelevant) spatial layout lengthens response times. We investigated what causes this effect. We observed a reliable mismatch effect that was not influenced by a secondary task during maintenance. Neither articulatory suppression (Experiment 1), nor unattended (Experiments 2 and 6) or attended visual material (Experiment 3) reduced the effect, and this was independent of the length of the retention interval (Experiment 6). The effect was also rather independent of the visual appearance of the local elements. It was of similar size with color patches (Experiment 4) and with completely different surface information when testing was cross modal (Experiment 5), and the nameability of the global configuration was not relevant (Experiments 6 and 7). In contrast, the figurative similarity of the configurations of S1 and S2 systematically influenced the size of the spatial mismatch effect (Experiment 7). We conclude that the spatial mismatch effect is caused by a mismatch of the global shape of the configuration stored together with the objects of S1 and not by a mismatch of templates of perceptual records maintained in a visual cache.

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Titel: The spatial mismatch effect is based on global configuration and not on perceptual records within the visual cache
Auteurs: Hubert D. Zimmer
Günther Lehnert
Publicatiedatum: 01-01-2006
Uitgeverij: Springer-Verlag
Gepubliceerd in: Psychological Research / Uitgave 1/2006
Print ISSN: 0340-0727
Elektronisch ISSN: 1430-2772
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-004-0186-5

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