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Chunming Luo¹, Robert W Proctor²

¹Key Laboratory of Behavioral Science, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China.

Acta Psychologica

|January 9, 2016

Summary

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Incompatible mapping in a location word task creates associations that influence later compatible mapping tasks. This suggests implicit learning of noncorresponding stimulus-response locations impacts cognitive processing.

Keywords:

Chinese location word Simon effect Task-defined rule Transfer

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Area of Science:

Cognitive Psychology
Experimental Psychology
Human-Computer Interaction

Background:

The Hedge and Marsh task investigates stimulus-response compatibility effects.
Compatible mappings typically yield a correspondence benefit (Simon effect).
Incompatible mappings can result in a reversal, favoring noncorrespondence.

Purpose of the Study:

To replicate the correspondence benefit and its reversal using Chinese location words.
To examine the transfer of stimulus-response associations between compatible and incompatible mappings.
To understand the underlying mechanisms of acquired associations in location-word tasks.

Main Methods:

Replication of the Hedge and Marsh task using Chinese location words ('left', 'right').
Four experiments manipulating mapping compatibility (compatible vs. incompatible).
Assessment of response transfer between different mapping conditions.

Main Results:

Correspondence benefit and its reversal were replicated.
Transfer of incompatible mapping effects to compatible mapping was observed (lack of correspondence benefit).
Transfer of compatible mapping effects to incompatible mapping did not occur.

Conclusions:

Acquisition of noncorresponding stimulus-response location associations occurs with incompatible mappings.
These implicit associations persist and influence processing even when the mapping becomes compatible.
Findings suggest a robust influence of learned associations on spatial cognition and response selection.