Metzker, Manja and Dreisbach, Gesine (2011) Priming Processes in the Simon Task: More Evidence From the Lexical Decision Task for a Third Route in the Simon Effect. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-HUMAN PERCEPTION AND PERFORMANCE, 37 (3). pp. 892-902. ISSN 0096-1523, 1939-1277
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Recently, it was proposed that the Simon effect would result not only from two interfering processes, as classical dual-route models assume, but from three processes. It was argued that priming from the spatial code to the nonspatial code might facilitate the identification of the nonspatial stimulus feature in congruent Simon trials. In the present study, the authors provide evidence that the identification of the nonspatial information can be facilitated by the activation of an associated spatial code. In three experiments, participants first associated centrally presented animal and fruit pictures with spatial responses. Subsequently, participants decided whether laterally presented letter strings were words (animal, fruit, or other words) or nonwords; stimulus position could be congruent or incongruent to the associated spatial code. As hypothesized, animal and fruit words were identified faster at congruent than at incongruent stimulus positions from the association phase. The authors conclude that the activation of the spatial code spreads to the nonspatial code, resulting in facilitated stimulus identification in congruent trials. These results speak to the assumption of a third process involved in the Simon task.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | STIMULUS-RESPONSE COMPATIBILITY; CHOICE REACTION-TIME; READING HABITS; LINE BISECTION; MODEL; INFORMATION; PERCEPTION; DIRECTION; OVERLAP; AUTOMATICITY; Simon task; lexical decision task; priming; spatial code |
| Subjects: | 100 Philosophy & psychology > 150 Psychology |
| Divisions: | Human Sciences > Institut für Psychologie > Lehrstuhl für Psychologie II (Allgemeine und Angewandte Psychologie) - Prof. Dr. Gesine Dreisbach |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Gernot Deinzer |
| Date Deposited: | 15 Jun 2020 05:51 |
| Last Modified: | 15 Jun 2020 05:51 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/20727 |
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