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- Title
Mixing incompatibly mapped location-relevant trials with location-irrelevant trials: effects of stimulus mode on the reverse Simon effect.
- Authors
Proctor, Robert W.; Gerred Marble, Julie; Vu, Kim-Phuong L.
- Abstract
Abstract When location-relevant trials with an incompatible spatial stimulus-response mapping are mixed with location-irrelevant trials, responses on the latter trials are faster when stimulus and response locations do not correspond than when they do. Experiments 1 and 2 showed that this reverse "Simon effect" also occurs when the location information is presented verbally or symbolically on both location-relevant and location-irrelevant trials. The reversal was absent, however, in conditions of Experiments 13 in which the mode of presentation was different on the location-relevant trials than on the location-irrelevant trials. Experiment 4 demonstrated that differences in physical characteristics between the location-relevant and location-irrelevant stimuli were not sufficient to eliminate the reverse Simon effect. These findings imply that the short-term associations between stimulus location information and responses defined for the location-relevant task are relatively mode specific.
- Subjects
SPATIAL behavior; RESPONSE consistency
- Publication
Psychological Research, 2000, Vol 64, Issue 1, p11
- ISSN
0340-0727
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s004260000041