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Published on: January 19, 2024
Accessory stimulation in the time course of visuomotor information processing: stimulus intensity effects on reaction
Jutta Stahl1, Thomas H Rammsayer
1Georg Elias Müller Institute for Psychology, University of Göttingen, Gosslerstr. 14, D-37073 Göttingen, Germany. jstahl@uni-goettingen.de
Abstract:
A series of three visual choice-reaction time experiments were performed to systematically investigate the effects of accessory auditory stimulation on response time (RT) and response force (RF). In Experiment 1, the effect of accessory auditory stimulation on early visual information processing was investigated. Experiments 2 and 3 were designed to examine the effects of accessory intensity on RT and RF across the entire time course of sensorimotor processing. Accessory stimulation accelerated response speed only when presented within 100 ms after onset of the visual response signal. An enhancing effect of accessory stimulation on RF, however, was found as late as 220 ms after onset of the response signal. These findings support the notion that response speed and response dynamics represent functionally independent sensorimotor phenomena.
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