Reaching into response selection: Stimulus and response similarity influence central operations

Wifall, Tim, Buss, Aaron T., Farmer, Thomas A., Spencer, John P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7320-144X and Hazeltine, Eliot (2017) Reaching into response selection: Stimulus and response similarity influence central operations. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 43 (3). pp. 555-568. ISSN 0096-1523

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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.

Item Type:	Article
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Psychology
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Developmental Science
Depositing User:	Pure Connector
Date Deposited:	24 Sep 2016 00:44
Last Modified:	22 Oct 2022 01:30
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/60204
DOI:	10.1037/xhp0000301

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