Jove
Visualize
Contact Us
JoVE
x logofacebook logolinkedin logoyoutube logo
ABOUT JoVE
OverviewLeadershipBlogJoVE Help Center
AUTHORS
Publishing ProcessEditorial BoardScope & PoliciesPeer ReviewFAQSubmit
LIBRARIANS
TestimonialsSubscriptionsAccessResourcesLibrary Advisory BoardFAQ
RESEARCH
JoVE JournalMethods CollectionsJoVE Encyclopedia of ExperimentsArchive
EDUCATION
JoVE CoreJoVE BusinessJoVE Science EducationJoVE Lab ManualFaculty Resource CenterFaculty Site
Terms & Conditions of Use
Privacy Policy
Policies

Related Experiment Videos

Sequential effects modulate spatial biases.

Dinis Gökaydin1, Peter Brugger2, Tobias Loetscher1

  • 1School of Psychology, Social Work, and Social Policy, University of South Australia.

Journal of Experimental Psychology. General
|September 6, 2017
PubMed
Summary
This summary is machine-generated.

Related Concept Videos

You might also read

Related Articles

Articles linked to this work by shared authors, journal, and citation graph.

Sort by
Same author

Conversational AI or a human professional for mental health advice? Exploring prevalence and public preferences in Australian adults.

Australian journal of psychology·2026
Same author

Altered white matter microstructure of language pathways and semantic cognition deficiencies in early psychosis.

Schizophrenia (Heidelberg, Germany)·2025
Same author

Free Association Database for a 62-Word Dataset Including Emotion and Colour Terms in English, Estonian, French, German, Italian, Lithuanian, and Spanish: Data from 14 Countries.

Journal of open psychology data·2025
Same author

The hidden side of body integrity dysphoria: aberrant limbic responses to dynamic touch.

Brain communications·2025
Same author

A deep learning approach for automated scoring of the Rey-Osterrieth complex figure.

eLife·2024
Same author

Identifying spatial neglect - an updated systematic review of the psychometric properties of assessment tools in adults post-stroke.

Neuropsychological rehabilitation·2024
Same journal

Executive function and social behavior: Causal evidence from loading working memory and inhibitory control.

Journal of experimental psychology. General·2026
Same journal

Correction to "Your research is public engagement: A case for more intentional science communication in research with human subjects" by Vaughn (2026).

Journal of experimental psychology. General·2026
Same journal

Correction to "Costs and benefits of acting extraverted: A randomized controlled trial" by Jacques-Hamilton et al. (2019).

Journal of experimental psychology. General·2026
Same journal

Conveying (discrete) emotionality with novel words.

Journal of experimental psychology. General·2026
Same journal

Physical actions shape moral choices: Environment-directed movements reduce cheating in young children.

Journal of experimental psychology. General·2026
Same journal

From chunks to schemas: Learning in the Hebb repetition paradigm.

Journal of experimental psychology. General·2026
See all related articles

Sequential effects in spatial tasks significantly influence pseudoneglect, the leftward bias in healthy individuals. This study reveals that trial history can even reverse this bias, suggesting a motor control basis for spatial attention.

Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Neuroscience
  • Human Factors

Background:

  • Healthy individuals typically exhibit a leftward spatial bias, known as pseudoneglect.
  • Pseudoneglect can be measured using tasks like line bisection or landmark tasks.
  • The magnitude of pseudoneglect is influenced by various experimental factors.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the impact of trial sequence on pseudoneglect in a landmark task.
  • To determine if sequential effects can alter or invert the typical leftward bias.
  • To explore the relationship between sequential effects in pseudoneglect and motor control mechanisms.

Main Methods:

  • Conducted two landmark experiments: one online (n=801) and one in a laboratory (n=20).
  • Presented participants with pre-bisected lines in a landmark task.

Related Experiment Videos

  • Analyzed the influence of previous trial responses on current spatial bias measurements.

    • Main Results:

    • Pseudoneglect magnitude is significantly modulated by the preceding sequence of trials.
    • In certain response histories, pseudoneglect was inverted, showing a rightward bias.
    • The dependency of the point of subjective equality on trial history was modeled by an exponential filter.

    Conclusions:

    • The sequence of trials is a critical factor modulating pseudoneglect.
    • Sequential effects observed in the landmark task align with motor control theories.
    • This research deepens the understanding of how motor control influences spatial biases.