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Right-left prevalence effect with horizontal and vertical effectors.

Sandro Rubichi1, Roberto Nicoletti, Annalisa Pelosi

  • 1Dipartimento di Scienze Sociali, Cognitive e Quantitative, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Reggio Emilia, Italy. rubichi@unimore.it

Perception & Psychophysics
|May 8, 2004
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The right-left prevalence effect in spatial compatibility tasks shows that horizontal coding occurs regardless of the effector used. Vertical coding, however, is dependent on using vertical effectors.

Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Neuroscience

Background:

  • Spatial compatibility effects influence performance in tasks requiring response to stimuli.
  • The right-left prevalence effect describes a bias towards processing horizontal spatial information.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the right-left prevalence effect in spatial compatibility tasks.
  • To examine how one-dimensional and two-dimensional stimulus-response mappings affect spatial coding.

Main Methods:

  • Subjects performed a two-dimensional spatial compatibility task.
  • Stimulus-response mappings were manipulated as one-dimensional or two-dimensional.
  • Performance was assessed using horizontal and vertical effectors for stimuli in four locations.

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Main Results:

  • In one-dimensional mapping, spatial compatibility effects were dimension-specific.
  • In two-dimensional mapping, horizontal compatibility effects were consistently observed.
  • Vertical compatibility effects emerged only when vertical effectors were employed.

Conclusions:

  • Horizontal spatial coding is robust and occurs with both horizontal and vertical effectors.
  • Vertical spatial coding is contingent on the use of vertical effectors.
  • Findings suggest distinct neural mechanisms for horizontal and vertical spatial processing.