TY - JOUR
T1 - Transfer of orthogonal stimulus-response mappings to an orthogonal Simon task
AU - Bae, Gi Yeul
AU - Cho, Yang Seok
AU - Proctor, Robert W.
N1 - Funding Information:
Correspondence should be addressed to Yang Seok Cho, Department of Psychology, Korea University, Anamdong, Seongbuk-Gu, Seoul, Korea 136-701. E-mail: yscho_psych@korea.ac.kr This research was supported in part by the Korea Science and Engineering Foundation (KOSEF) Grant funded by the Korean Government (MOST-2006-05110) and by U.S. Army Research Office Grant W9112NF-05-0153.
PY - 2009/1/8
Y1 - 2009/1/8
N2 - When up-down stimulus locations are mapped to left-right keypresses, an overall advantage for the up-right/down-left mapping is often obtained that varies as a function of response eccentricity. This orthogonal stimulus-response compatibility (SRC) effect also occurs when stimulus location is irrelevant, a phenomenon called the orthogonal Simon effect, and has been attributed to correspondence of stimulus and response code polarities. The Simon effect for horizontal stimulus-response (S-R) arrangements has been shown to be affected by short-term S-R associations established through the mapping used for a prior SRC task in which stimulus location was relevant. We examined whether such associations also transfer between orthogonal SRC and Simon tasks and whether correspondence of code polarities continues to contribute to performance in the Simon task. In Experiment 1, the orthogonal Simon effect was larger after practising with an up-right/down-left mapping of visual stimuli to responses than with the alternative mapping, for which the orthogonal Simon effect tended to reverse. Experiment 2 showed similar results when practice was with high (up) and low (down) pitch tones, though the influence of practice mapping was not as large as that in Experiment 1, implying that the short-term S-R associations acquired in practice are at least in part not modality specific. In Experiment 3, response eccentricity and practice mapping were shown to have separate influences on the orthogonal Simon effect, as expected if both code polarity and acquired S-R associations contribute to performance.
AB - When up-down stimulus locations are mapped to left-right keypresses, an overall advantage for the up-right/down-left mapping is often obtained that varies as a function of response eccentricity. This orthogonal stimulus-response compatibility (SRC) effect also occurs when stimulus location is irrelevant, a phenomenon called the orthogonal Simon effect, and has been attributed to correspondence of stimulus and response code polarities. The Simon effect for horizontal stimulus-response (S-R) arrangements has been shown to be affected by short-term S-R associations established through the mapping used for a prior SRC task in which stimulus location was relevant. We examined whether such associations also transfer between orthogonal SRC and Simon tasks and whether correspondence of code polarities continues to contribute to performance in the Simon task. In Experiment 1, the orthogonal Simon effect was larger after practising with an up-right/down-left mapping of visual stimuli to responses than with the alternative mapping, for which the orthogonal Simon effect tended to reverse. Experiment 2 showed similar results when practice was with high (up) and low (down) pitch tones, though the influence of practice mapping was not as large as that in Experiment 1, implying that the short-term S-R associations acquired in practice are at least in part not modality specific. In Experiment 3, response eccentricity and practice mapping were shown to have separate influences on the orthogonal Simon effect, as expected if both code polarity and acquired S-R associations contribute to performance.
KW - Orthogonal SRC
KW - Polarity correspondence
KW - Simon effect
KW - Stimulus-response compatibility
KW - Transfer of learning
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U2 - 10.1080/17470210802303883
DO - 10.1080/17470210802303883
M3 - Article
C2 - 18780263
AN - SCOPUS:67651014788
SN - 1747-0218
VL - 62
SP - 746
EP - 765
JO - Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
JF - Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
IS - 4
ER -