Journal article
Reaching into response selection: Stimulus and response similarity influence central operations
Journal of experimental psychology. Human perception and performance, Vol.43(3), pp.555-568
03/2017
DOI: 10.1037/xhp0000301
PMID: 28080115
Abstract
To behave adaptively in complex and dynamic environments, one must link perception and action to satisfy internal states, a process known as response selection (RS). A largely unexplored topic in the study of RS is how interstimulus and interresponse similarity affect performance. To examine this issue, we manipulated stimulus similarity by using colors that were either similar or dissimilar and manipulated response similarity by having participants move a mouse cursor to locations that were either close together or far apart. Stimulus and response similarity produced an interaction such that the mouse trajectory showed the greatest curvature when both were similar, a result obtained under task conditions emphasizing speed and conditions emphasizing accuracy. These findings are inconsistent with symbolic look-up accounts of RS but are consistent with central codes incorporating metrical properties of both stimuli and responses. (PsycINFO Database Record
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Reaching into response selection: Stimulus and response similarity influence central operations
- Creators
- Tim Wifall - Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of IowaAaron T Buss - Department of Psychology, University of TennesseeThomas A Farmer - Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of IowaJohn P Spencer - School of Psychology, University of East AngliaEliot Hazeltine - Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Iowa
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of experimental psychology. Human perception and performance, Vol.43(3), pp.555-568
- Publisher
- United States
- DOI
- 10.1037/xhp0000301
- PMID
- 28080115
- ISSN
- 0096-1523
- eISSN
- 1939-1277
- Grant note
- R03 DA031583 / NIDA NIH HHS
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 03/2017
- Academic Unit
- Linguistics; Psychological and Brain Sciences; Iowa Neuroscience Institute
- Record Identifier
- 9984065375002771
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