Stimulus-response compatibility for absolute and relative spatial correspondence in reaching and in button pressing

Stins, John F.; Michaels, Claire F.

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“…Further research should investigate which specific components of complexity most influence the consistent use of the preferred hand. Finally, the fact that the effect of spatial position on hand use is weaker in children with consistent handedness (right-or left-handers) than in children with inconsistent handedness agrees with another study by Stins et al (2000), which showed that more lateralized subjects are more likely to use their preferred hand than less lateralized ones.…”

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“…As a consequence, reaction time is slower when the participant must respond with the hand contralateral to the warning cue, across different cue modalities, compared with the hand ipsilateral to the cue (Puleo & Sheldon, 1977). Movement time also is faster in the ipsilateral than in the contralateral condition (Mieschke, Elliott, Helsen, Carson, & Coull, 2001;Stins & Michaels, 2000). Despite the ipsilateral effect, adults use their preferred hand for about 30% of the reaches in the contralateral hemispace: Their switch to using their nonpreferred hand increases consistently as stimulus location goes further away from the midline (Bryden, Pryde, & Roy, 1999Gabbard, Iteya, & Rabb, 1997;Gabbard & Rabb, 2000).…”

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Influence of object spatial location and task complexity on children's use of their preferred hand depending on their handedness consistency

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Fagard

2004

Developmental Psychobiology

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The goal of the present study was to compare the use of the preferred versus the nonpreferred hand in children performing two tasks of different levels of complexity, in various positions in space. Right-handed and left-handed consistent children were compared to their inconsistent counterparts. The results showed that the general tendency to use one's preferred hand to grasp an object is more or less pronounced depending on the object's spatial location and the task's complexity. The children used their preferred hand more often even when the object was presented contralaterally, and did so to a greater extent during the more complex task. Inconsistent-handers were more likely to shift to using their nonpreferred hand when the object was presented to this hand's side. Finally, we found that the influence of handedness consistency on hand use for the spatial positions varied with the complexity of the task. These results favor a view of handedness as a dynamic process in which motor preferences interact with task demand, probably through task-related attention.

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Influence of object spatial location and task complexity on children's use of their preferred hand depending on their handedness consistency

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2004

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“…However, an influence of key distance was found in earlier experiments with both spatial responses and visuo-spatial stimuli [9]–[11]. In fact, effects of key separation might depend on shared spatial characteristics of stimuli and responses.…”

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“…We know of only few studies that manipulated absolute position in both stimuli and responses, the results of which suggest though that the correspondence of absolute positions may also influence performance: Stins and Michaels [11] (Experiments 1 & 2) studied fast reaching movements towards either a central or a more eccentric target (separated by approx. 15 or 65 cm), in response to one of six horizontally arranged visual stimuli.…”

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Need for Space: The Key Distance Effect Depends on Spatial Stimulus Configurations

2014

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In numerous psychological experiments, participants classify stimuli by pressing response keys. According to Lakens, Schneider, Jostmann, and Schubert (2011), classification performance is affected by physical distance between response keys – indicating a cognitive tendency to represent categories in spatial code. However, previous evidence for a key distance effect (KDE) from a color-naming Stroop task is inconclusive as to whether: (a) key separation automatically leads to an internal spatial representation of non-spatial stimulus characteristics in participants, or if the KDE rather depends on physical spatial characteristics of the stimulus configuration; (b) the KDE attenuates the Stroop interference effect. We therefore first adopted the original Stroop task in Experiment 1, confirming that wider key distance facilitated responses, but did not modulate the Stroop effect as was previously found. In Experiments 2 and 3 we controlled potential mediator variables in the original design. When we did not display instructions about stimulus-response mappings, thereby removing the unintended spatial context from the Stroop stimuli, no KDE emerged. Presenting the instructions at a central position in Experiment 4 confirmed that key separation alone is not sufficient for a KDE, but correspondence between spatial configurations of stimuli and responses is also necessary. Evidence indicates that the KDE on Stroop performance is due to known mechanisms of stimulus-response compatibility and response discriminability. The KDE does, however, not demonstrate a general disposition to represent any stimulus in spatial code.

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Spatial coding for the Simon effect in visual search

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Two experiments were conducted to examine the Simon effect (i.e., faster responding when irrelevant stimulus location corresponds with response location than when it does not) in visual search tasks. The search items were arranged in a 4 x 4 grid, and grid locations were coded into sets of four, two involving inner columns and two involving outer columns. In experiment 1, three different types of inefficient search tasks were used. The Simon effects were shown to be larger when the target appeared in one of the outer columns than in one of the inner columns ("laterality effect"). This pattern of results was not observed when distractors were absent, suggesting that the laterality effect depends on the operation of selective attention. In experiment 2, a pop-out search task was used, and no significant effect of target location on the Simon effect was found. Interpretations of the results based on the attention-shift account and referential-coding account were discussed.

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Stimulus-response compatibility for absolute and relative spatial correspondence in reaching and in button pressing

Cited by 12 publications

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Influence of object spatial location and task complexity on children's use of their preferred hand depending on their handedness consistency

Influence of object spatial location and task complexity on children's use of their preferred hand depending on their handedness consistency

Need for Space: The Key Distance Effect Depends on Spatial Stimulus Configurations

Spatial coding for the Simon effect in visual search

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