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The Crossmodal Congruency Task as a Means to Obtain an Objective Behavioral Measure in the Rubber Hand Illusion Paradigm
Published on: July 26, 2013
In touch with the Simon effect
Yael Salzer1, Daniela Aisenberg2, Tal Oron-Gilad3
1Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, <location>Beer Sheva, Israel</location> Department of Psychology, and the Zlotowski Center for Neuroscience, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, <location>Beer Sheva, Israel</location>
Abstract:
Cognitive control has been extensively studied using the auditory and visual modalities. In the current study, a tactile version of the Simon task was created in order to test control mechanisms in a modality that was less studied, to provide comparative and new information. A significant Simon effect--reaction time gap between congruent (i.e., stimulus and response in the same relative location) and incongruent (i.e., stimulus and response in opposite locations) stimuli--provided grounds to further examine both general and tactile-specific aspects of cognitive control in three experiments. By implementing a neutral condition and conducting sequential and distributional analysis, the present study: (a) supports two different independent mechanisms of cognitive control--reactive control and proactive control; (b) reveals facilitation and interference within the tactile Simon effect; and (c) proposes modality differences in activation and processing of the spatially driven stimulus-response association.
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