Is direction position? Position- and direction-based correspondence effects in tasks with moving stimuli

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作者
Bosbach, S
Prinz, WG
Kerzel, D
机构
[1] Max Planck Inst Psychol Res, Dept Cognit & Act, D-80799 Munich, Germany
[2] Univ Giessen, Giessen, Germany
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QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY SECTION A-HUMAN EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY | 2005年 / 58卷 / 03期
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10.1080/02724980443000016
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B84 [心理学];
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04 ; 0402 ;
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Five experiments were carried out to test whether (task-irrelevant) motion information provided by a stimulus changing its position over time would affect manual left-right responses. So far, some studies reported direction-based Simon effects whereas others did not. In Experiment la, a reliable direction-based effect occurred, which was not modulated by the response mode - that is, by whether participants responded by pressing one of two keys or more dynamically by moving a stylus in a certain direction. Experiments 1a, 1b, and 2 lend support to the idea that observers use the starting position of target motion as a reference for spatial coding. That is, observers might process object motion as a shift of position relative to the starting position and not as directional information. The dominance of relative position coding could also be shown in Experiment 3, in which relative position was pitted against motion direction by presenting a static and dynamic stimulus at the same time. Additionally, we explored the role of eye movements in stimulus-response compatibility and showed in Experiments 1b and 3a that the execution or preparation of saccadic eye movements - as proposed by an attention - shifting account-is not necessary for a Simon effect to occur.
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