S-R compatibility: Correspondence among paired elements within stimulus and response codes.

Abstract

The present paper is the second dealing with the usefulness of the concept of S-R compatibility for behavior theory. This concept concerns the effects of a class of variables that influence task difficulty in experiments in which learning, complexity (amount of information), and discriminability are controlled. Compatibility effects are conceived as resulting from hypothetical information transformation processes (encoding and/or decoding) that intervene between receptor and effector activity. The rate of processing information is assumed to be maximum when these receding processes are at a minimum.The objective of the study of compatibility effects is to discover conditions under which these effects occur, and to establish principles that will permit specification of the nature and difficulty of perceptual-motor tasks in terms of (hypothetical) intervening information transformation processes. Such processes must be inferred, just as do constructs such as habit strength, from measures of performance obtained in appropriate experiments. The type of experiment of greatest interest for the present purpose is one in which it is possible to measure the rate of information trans-

Dissociation of S-R compatibility and Simon effects with mixed tasks and mappings.

“…The SRC effect, too, is often credited in part to activation of the corresponding response via the direct route, as in Kornblum et al's model, but also to differences in time for response activation to occur by way of the short-term location associations of the indirect route. Indeed, some authors (e.g., Fitts & Deininger, 1954) have attributed the SRC effect entirely to "S-R translations" of the indirect route.…”

The Effect of Stimulus-Central Processing-Response Compatibility and Resource Competition on Pilot Performance

“…Fitts and Seeger (1953), Fitts and Deininger (1954), and Morin and Grant (1955) demonstrated S-R compatibility with visual stimuli, Broadbent andGregory (1965) with tac.,tical stimulation, andSimoti, Hinrichs, andCraft (1970) with auditory stimuli. Ogden, Anderson, andRieck (1979) demonstrated that a strong S-R compatibility effect was shown in a dual task setting.…”

“…In a series of early investigations, Fitts a-nhf---coll' ii e(agues T.e., Fitts & Seeger, 1953;Fitts & Deininger, 1954) demonstrated that choice-reaction time performance is not solely determined by the stimulus set nor response set, but is instead a function of specific stimulus and response pairings into S-R ensembles.…”

Exploring handedness asymmetries in the Simon effect

“…This RT difference is called a stimulus-response (S-R) compatibility (SRC) effect (Fitts & Deininger, 1954; for a review see Proctor & Vu, 2006). In most theoretical accounts, the SRC effect is attributed at least in part to activation of the spatially corresponding response that occurs as a consequence of the similarity, or overlap, of the stimulus and response dimensions (De Jong, Liang, & Lauber, 1994;Kornblum, Hasbroucq, & Osman, 1990).…”