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- Title
Influences on the Simon effect of prior practice with spatially incompatible mappings: Transfer within and between horizontal and vertical dimensions.
- Authors
Vu, Kim-Phuong L.
- Abstract
The Simon effect refers to the fact that for tasks in which stimulus location is irrelevant and a nonspatial at- tribute is relevant, responses are typically faster when stimulus and response locations correspond than when they do not. Two experiments examined the influence of prior practice with an incompatible relevant spatial mapping on the Simon effect as a function of the dimension (vertical or horizontal) along which the stimuli and responses varied in practice and transfer sessions. With 72 practice trials, the Simon effect in the transfer session was eliminated only when the spatial dimension was horizontal for both practice and transfer. With 600 practice trials, the Simon effect was eliminated for all combinations of practice and transfer dimensions, with noncorresponding responses showing an advantage when the dimension was horizontal for both practice and transfer. Within-dimension transfer effects for the horizontal dimension after a small amount of practice can be attributed to reactivation of specific stimulus-response associations defined for the practice task. However, the between-dimension transfer effects evident after a larger amount of practice cannot be explained in this manner and suggest that the subjects acquired a general procedure of responding opposite to the stimulus location.
- Subjects
MEMORY; INTELLECT; SHORT-term memory; RECOLLECTION (Psychology); MENTAL discipline; COGNITIVE development; SELF-perception; COGNITIVE ability; CRITICAL thinking
- Publication
Memory & Cognition, 2007, Vol 35, Issue 6, p1463
- ISSN
0090-502X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3758/BF03193616