Does the Simon effect affect movement execution?

Rubichi, Sandro; Pellicano, Antonello

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“…As mentioned in the Introduction, when the initiation of action occurs quickly, the compatibility eVect becomes more likely to be observed in the movement time and trajectory as well. If response initiation occurs before response selection is completed, then response selection continues to occur during the response action itself (Buetti & Kerzel, 2008;Rubichi et al, 2000;Rubichi & Pellicano, 2004). If response selection can be completed after action initiation for fast responses, then it is possible that the Simon eVect for initial reaches is larger than for goal reaches in Experiment 1 because much of the goal reach is prepared during the execution of the action.…”

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“…Previous Simon eVect studies that have used reaching movements for responses were primarily interested in the respective contributions of RTs versus movement times to the Simon eVect, since these two components are easier to isolate when movements are more lengthy and complex than button presses (Buetti & Kerzel, 2008Rubichi, Nicoletti, & Umiltà, 2000;Rubichi & Pellicano, 2004). For example, Buetti and Kerzel (2009) instructed participants to place their right index Wnger between left and right target boxes.…”

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Action plans produce separate Simon effects for picking up and transporting objects

Miles

Witt

Proctor

2009

Psychological Research

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A common type of interaction with the environment is reaching to move an object from one location to another. We investigated the influence of spatial stimulus-response (S-R) compatibility effects on the planning of such multi-reach actions. Participants responded to a cue on their left or right side by picking up a bean (initial reach) and then placing it in a container (goal reach). In three experiments, the initial reach and the goal reach were varied so that both reaches were to opposite sides (Exp 1), the initial reach was neutral (Exp 2), and both the initial and goal reaches were on the same side (Exp 3). The participants' reaction time to begin the initial reach was measured. Results showed that the spatial compatibility between the cue and both the initial and goal reaches contribute to the reaction time, with the relation between the cue and the initial reach playing a dominant role.

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Action plans produce separate Simon effects for picking up and transporting objects

Miles

Witt

Proctor

2009

Psychological Research

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“…In the framework of Glover's motor control model (2004), this result suggests that the previous learning phase affects the Simon effect via the motor planning of the to-be-executed response, but not via its online control. However, insofar as response selection and programming are thought to occur both before and during response execution in accordance with the task constraints (see Buetti & Kerzel, 2009), further experiments with other task constraints (using more sensitive measures, such as movement kinematic parameters) will be needed to explore the extents to which the previous learning phase impacts the Simon effects solely before, or also during, response execution (see Rubichi & Pellicano, 2004).…”

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“…More specifically, the strengths of the Simon effect on these response parameters vary as a function of the timing of response selection and programming. When stress is put on movement initiation (by the task instructions), the Simon effect impacts response execution durations but not response latencies (Buetti & Kerzel, 2009;Rubichi & Pellicano, 2004). By contrast, in a go/no-go Simon task, in which the to-be-executed motor response is precued before stimulus presentation, response precueing reduces the Simon effect on the movement parameters while preserving the Simon effect on response latencies (Buetti & Kerzel, 2009;Rubichi & Pellicano, 2004).…”

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Association between a color and a manual response activation modulates the response planning of typically developing children in a subsequent Simon task

Costini

Ferrier

Reymondet

et al. 2015

Atten Percept Psychophys

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The Simon effect usually refers to the observation that responding to a nonspatial feature of a stimulus is faster when the position of the stimulus (task-irrelevant) matches the position of the to-be-executed response. The Simon effect can disappear when the Simon task is preceded by a spatial compatibility task with an incompatible mapping. In this experiment, during a preliminary phase, 20 children had to decide whether the outline of a colored stimulus was dotted or continuous. Green stimuli were presented exclusively on the right, whereas red stimuli were presented on the left (the color was task-irrelevant). The participants then had to perform a Simon task. When the instructions required them to press either the left or the right button for red or green stimuli, respectively (Group A), the Simon effect on response latencies was not significant. With the opposite instructions (the right or left button for red or green stimuli, respectively; Group B), the Simon effect was significant on response latencies. The Simon effect was significant on movement times for both groups. These results suggest that during the preliminary phase, each color became associated with the manual response automatically activated by that color's position. In the subsequent Simon task, the presentation of the color activated the associated response. This modulated the planning of the to-beexecuted response.

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“…There have been several studies that have investigated how the Simon effect affects reaching movements (Buetti & Kerzel, 2008;Miles & Proctor, 2011;Rubichi & Pellicano, 2004;Scherbaum, Dshemuchadse, Fischer, & Goschke, 2010). Initial movement angle has been used to explore response programming in the Simon effect (Buetti & Kerzel, 2008).…”

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

Wifall¹,

Buss²,

Farmer³

et al. 2017

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Perfor

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iv ABSTRACT This dissertation examines the impact of stimulus and response similarity on response selection. Traditional models of response selection invoke a central processor that operates like a look-up table by matching the perceptually classified stimulus (e.g., green square) to the specified response (e.g., right button press). The look-up property of response selection affords the system the ability to map any stimulus onto any response, even if that stimulus-response has never been paired before. Under such an approach, the degree of perceptual similarity or dissimilarity that exists among stimuli in the environment should have little effect on central operations, the similarity or dissimilarity of the motor response executed in response to a stimulus should not influence response selection, and no interaction between stimulus and response features is permitted, given that stimulus features affect the encoding process, and response features affect the output process, but not response selection itself.Eight studies examine the influence of stimulus and response similarity during response selection. The first two experiments establish the interaction across different task demands between stimulus and response similarity. The interaction was not the result of perceptual difficulty (Experiment 3) and was extended to a new set of stimuli (Experiment 4). A consequence of the design in Experiments 1 -4 was that response condition was confounded with response configuration. In one of the response conditions the target location had three competitors on one side of it compared to the other condition where the target had one competitor on one side and two others on the other side.Experiments 5 and 6 examined the separate roles that response configuration and response metrics had on the interaction between stimulus and response similarity. The mechanism that produced the interaction was the result of competition between partially activated stimulus-response alternatives. Experiments 7 and 8 further explored the role of competition during response selection by turning to traditional response selection methodologies that introduce competition through either the presentation of irrelevant v stimulus information or through presenting the stimulus along an irrelevant spatial dimension.These data have broad implications for models of RS. To account for the ability to pair any stimulus modality with any response modality dominant accounts of RS assume that central operations are performed by a generic set of processes that operate over representations that are stripped of metric information (amodal representations).Response selection works as a look-up table that receives a categorized stimulus as an input and returns an abstract response code as output. This type of model cannot produce an interaction between stimulus and response similarity and thus, the present data provide a serious challenge to these types of models. Finally, the data provide evidence that the metric relationship between stimuli and response matter an...

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Does the Simon effect affect movement execution?

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Action plans produce separate Simon effects for picking up and transporting objects

Action plans produce separate Simon effects for picking up and transporting objects

Association between a color and a manual response activation modulates the response planning of typically developing children in a subsequent Simon task

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

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