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Shao X, He L, Liu Y, Fu Y. The effect of acute high-intensity interval training and Tabata training on inhibitory control and cortical activation in young adults. Front Neurosci 2023; 17:1229307. [PMID: 37781251 PMCID: PMC10536150 DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2023.1229307] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/26/2023] [Accepted: 08/29/2023] [Indexed: 10/03/2023] Open
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Introduction Physical exercise not only benefits peoples' health, but also improves their cognitive function. Although growing evidence suggests that high-intensity interval training (HIIT) is a time-efficient exercise regime that can improve inhibitory control performance by enhancing cortical activation in the prefrontal cortex, less is known about how Tabata training, a subset of HIIT that requires no equipment or facilities to perform, affects inhibitory control and cortical activation in young adults. Therefore, we aimed to reveal the effect of an acute bout of HIIT and Tabata training on inhibitory control and attempted to identify its potential neural substrates. Methods Forty-two young adults (mean age: 19.36 ± 1.36 years; 21 females) performed the Stroop task and Simon task before and after acute HIIT, Tabata training, or a control session, and cortical hemodynamic changes in the prefrontal area were monitored by functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) during the tasks. Both HIIT and Tabata interventions lasted for a total of 12 min. The HIIT participants performed ergometer cycling at their 80% maximal aerobic power at 90-100 rpm, and the Tabata participants performed a total of 8 intense activities, such as jumping jacks, high knees, and butt kickers, without using equipment or facilities, keeping the heart rate at 80-95% of their maximum heart rate. Participants in the control group watched a sport video while sedentary. Cognitive tasks data and fNIRS data were analyzed by repeated-measures three-way ANOVA. Results and discussion Our results indicated that both the HIIT and Tabata groups exhibited reduced reaction times after the intervention, and there were alterations in activation patterns in the dorsolateral and ventrolateral prefrontal cortices.
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- Xueyun Shao
- School of Sports, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China
- Shenzhen Institute of Neuroscience, Shenzhen, China
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- Shenzhen Institute of Neuroscience, Shenzhen, China
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- Shenzhen Institute of Neuroscience, Shenzhen, China
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- Shenzhen Institute of Neuroscience, Shenzhen, China
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Grandjean A, Suarez I, Da Fonseca D, Casini L. Dissociable effects of positive feedback on the capture and inhibition of impulsive behavior in adolescents with ADHD versus typically developing adolescents. Child Neuropsychol 2023; 29:543-568. [PMID: 35980108 DOI: 10.1080/09297049.2022.2100882] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/15/2022]
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The present study investigated how enhancing motivation by delivering positive feedback (a smiley) after a successful trial could affect interference control in adolescents with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and in their typically developing (TD) peers. By using a Simon task within the theoretical framework of the "activation-suppression" model, we were able to separately investigate the expression and the inhibition of impulsive motor behavior. The experiment included 19 adolescents with ADHD and 20 TD adolescents in order to explore whether data found in adolescents with ADHD were similar to those found in TD adolescents. Participants performed the Simon task in two conditions: a condition with feedback delivered after each successful trial and a condition with no feedback. The main findings were that increasing motivation by delivering positive feedback increased impulsive response in both groups of adolescents. It also improved the efficiency of impulsive motor action inhibition in adolescents with ADHD but deteriorated it in TD adolescents. We suggest that 1/increased motivation could lead adolescents to favor fast responses even if incorrect, and 2/the differential effect of feedback on the selective suppression of impulsive motor action in both groups could be due to different baseline DA levels.
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- Aurélie Grandjean
- Laboratoire de Neurosciences Cognitives, Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS, Marseille, France
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- Departamento de Psicología, Universidad del Norte, Baranquilla, Colombia
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- Service de psychiatrie infanto-juvénile, Hôpital Salvator, Marseille, France
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- Laboratoire de Neurosciences Cognitives, Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS, Marseille, France
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What Simon "knows" about cultural differences: The influence of cultural orientation and traffic directionality on spatial compatibility effects. Mem Cognit 2023; 51:526-542. [PMID: 36180770 PMCID: PMC9992257 DOI: 10.3758/s13421-022-01360-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 09/11/2022] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Previous research has suggested that culture influences perception and attention. These studies have typically involved comparisons of Westerners with East Asians, motivated by assumed differences in the cultures' self-concept or position on the individualism-collectivism spectrum. However, other potentially important sources of cultural variance have been neglected, such as differences in traffic directionality shaped by the urban spatial environment (i.e., left-hand vs. right-hand traffic). Thus, existing research may potentially place too much emphasis on self-concepts or the individualism-collectivism dimension in explaining observed cultural differences in cognition. The present study investigated spatial cognition using a Simon task and tested participants from four nations (Australia, China, Germany, and Malaysia) that differ in both cultural orientation (collectivistic vs. individualistic) and traffic directionality (left-hand vs. right-hand traffic). The task used two possible reference frames underlying the Simon effect: a body-centered one based on global stimulus position relative to the screen's center versus an object-centered one based on local stimulus position relative to a context object. As expected, all groups showed a reliable Simon effect for both spatial reference frames. However, the global Simon effect was larger in participants from countries with left-hand traffic. In contrast, the local Simon effect was modulated by differences in cultural orientation, with larger effects in participants from collectivistic cultures. This pattern suggests that both sources of cultural variation, viz. cultural orientation and traffic directionality, contribute to differences in spatial cognition in distinct ways.
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The Simon Effect Asymmetry for Left- and Right-Dominant Persons. J Cogn 2023; 6:17. [PMID: 36874910 PMCID: PMC9983503 DOI: 10.5334/joc.265] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/18/2022] [Accepted: 02/17/2023] [Indexed: 03/06/2023] Open
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When participants respond to a task-relevant stimulus attribute by pressing a left or right key with the respective index finger, reaction time is shorter if task-irrelevant left-right stimulus location corresponds to that of the response key than if it does not. For right-handers, this Simon effect is larger for right-located than left-located stimuli; for left-handers this Simon-effect asymmetry is reversed. A similar asymmetry has been found for right-footers pressing pedals with their feet. For analyses that separate stimulus- and response-location factors, these asymmetries appear as a main effect of response location, with responses being faster with the dominant effector. If the Simon-effect asymmetry is strictly a function of effector dominance, it should reverse for left-footers responding with their feet. In Experiment 1, left-dominant persons showed faster responses with the left than right hand but with the right than left foot, a finding consistent with prior research on tapping actions. Right-dominant persons also showed the right-foot asymmetry but, unexpectedly, not the typical asymmetry with hand responses. To evaluate whether hand-presses yield results distinct from finger-presses, in Experiment 2 participants performed the Simon task with finger-presses and hand-presses. The opposing asymmetries for right- and left-dominant persons were evident for both response modes. Our results are consistent with the view that the Simon effect asymmetry is primarily due to differences in effector efficiency, usually but not always favoring the dominant effector.
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Faßbender K, Bey K, Lippold JV, Aslan B, Hurlemann R, Ettinger U. GABAergic modulation of performance in response inhibition and interference control tasks. J Psychopharmacol 2021; 35:1496-1509. [PMID: 34278874 DOI: 10.1177/02698811211032440] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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BACKGROUND Inhibitory control is a crucial executive function with high relevance to mental and physical well-being. However, there are still unanswered questions regarding its neural mechanisms, including the role of the major inhibitory neurotransmitter, γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA). AIMS This study examined the effects of lorazepam (0.5 mg and 1 mg), a positive allosteric modulator at the GABAA receptor, on response inhibition and interference control. We also explored the heterogeneity of inhibitory control and calculated delta plots to explore whether lorazepam affects the gradual build-up of inhibition and activation over time. METHODS N = 50 healthy participants performed antisaccade, Eriksen flanker and Simon tasks in a within-subjects, placebo-controlled, double-blind randomized design. RESULTS Lorazepam increased reaction time (RT) and error rates dose dependently in all tasks (p ⩽ 0.005). In the antisaccade and Simon tasks, lorazepam increased congruency effects for error rate (p ⩽ 0.029) but not RT (p ⩾ 0.587). In the Eriksen flanker task, both congruency effects were increased by the drug (p ⩽ 0.031). Delta plots did not reflect drug-induced changes in inhibition and activation over time. Delta plots for RT in the Simon task were negative-going, as expected, whereas those for the antisaccade and flanker tasks were positive-going. CONCLUSIONS This study provides evidence for GABAergic involvement in performance on response inhibition and interference control tasks. Furthermore, our findings highlight the diversity of the broader construct of inhibitory control while also pointing out similarities between different inhibitory control tasks. In contrast to RT and error rates, the cognitive processes indexed by delta plots may not be sensitive to GABAergic modulation.
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- Kaja Faßbender
- Department of Psychology, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany.,Research Center Neurosensory Science, University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany
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Xiong A, Proctor RW, Xu Y, Zelaznik HN. Visual salience of 3D and 2D spoons determines S-R mapping and flanker effects. Q J Exp Psychol (Hove) 2020; 74:241-253. [PMID: 33063606 DOI: 10.1177/1747021820959599] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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This study tested the hypothesis that affordances for grasping with the corresponding hand are activated more strongly by three-dimensional (3D) real objects than by two-dimensional (2D) pictures of the objects. In Experiment 1, participants made left and right keypress responses to the handle or functional end (tip) of an eating utensil using compatible and incompatible mappings. In one session, stimuli were spoons mounted horizontally on a blackboard with the sides to which the handle and tip pointed varying randomly. In the other, stimuli were pictures of spoons displayed on a black computer screen. Three-dimensional and 2D sessions showed a similar benefit for compatible mapping when the tip was relevant and a small cost of compatible mapping when the handle was relevant. Experiment 2 used a flanker task in which participants responded compatibly to the location of the handle or the tip, and spoons located above and below the target spoon could have congruent or incongruent orientations. The difference between 3D and 2D displays was not obtained in the flanker effect for reaction time. There was little evidence that 3D objects activate grasping affordances that 2D images do not. Instead, we argue that visual salience of the tip is the critical factor determining these correspondence effects.
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- Aiping Xiong
- College of Information Sciences and Technology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA
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- Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA
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Wang Z. Influence of Number Location on the SNARC Effect: Evidence From the Processing of Rotated Traditional Chinese Numerical Words. Iperception 2020; 11:2041669520917169. [PMID: 32284844 PMCID: PMC7132793 DOI: 10.1177/2041669520917169] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/09/2020] [Accepted: 03/12/2020] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Studies have widely captured the spatial-numerical association of response codes (SNARC) effect in the processing of various types of numbers in which small numbers are responded to faster with the left hand than with the right hand and larger numbers are responded to faster with the right hand than with the left hand. Although a few studies have explored Arabic numbers to further investigate the influence of number location on the SNARC effect, it remains unclear whether the influence of number location on the SNARC effect is moderated by numerical semantic processing difficulty and the task performed. This study explored traditional Chinese numerical words and rotated them to certain angles, which can increase numerical semantic processing difficulty, to further investigate the influence of the stimulus-response compatibility effect and Simon effect on the SNARC effect in a space classification task (Experiment 1), numerical magnitude classification task (Experiment 2), numerical parity classification task (Experiment 3), and color classification task (Experiment 4). The results indicated that (a) the stimulus-response compatibility effect, not the SNARC effect, prevailed in the numerical space classification task; (b) the SNARC effect, not the Simon effect, prevailed in the numerical magnitude and parity classification task; and (c) the Simon effect and the SNARC effect coexisted in the color classification task. These results suggested that the influence of number location on the SNARC effect was moderated by the task performed. Implications for the theory of the SNARC effect and Simon effect are discussed.
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- Zhiwei Wang
- School of Psychology, Northeast Normal University, Changchun, China
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Several drift-diffusion models have been developed to account for the performance in conflict tasks. Although a common characteristic of these models is that the drift rate changes within a trial, their architecture is rather different. Comparative studies usually examine which model fits the data best. However, a good fit does not guarantee good parameter recovery, which is a necessary condition for a valid interpretation of any fit. A recent simulation study revealed that recovery performance varies largely between models and individual parameters. Moreover, recovery was generally not very impressive. Therefore, the aim of the present study was to introduce and test an improved fit procedure. It is based on a grid search for determining the initial parameter values and on a specific criterion for assessing the goodness of fit. Simulations show that not only the fit performance but also parameter recovery improved substantially by applying this procedure, compared to the standard one. The improvement was largest for the most complex model.
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Shi W, Wang Q, Deng M, Xu D. The influence of the location of ordered symbols on the ordinal position effect: The involvement of the task performed. Acta Psychol (Amst) 2020; 202:102978. [PMID: 31790912 DOI: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2019.102978] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/25/2019] [Revised: 11/12/2019] [Accepted: 11/22/2019] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Since the ordinal position effect was identified, several studies have investigated its mechanism in various contexts; however, how the space location of ordinal symbols influences this effect remains unclear. Thus, the present study explored Chinese words representing the day before yesterday, yesterday, tomorrow, and the day after tomorrow as ordinal symbols to investigate how the stimulus space location influences the ordinal position effect across different task contexts. We randomly and equally presented days on the left or right location of a display and asked participants to perform a stimulus space location, a stimulus colour and a stimulus order classification task in three consecutive experiments, respectively. The results revealed that the spatial stimulus-response compatibility effect and Simon effect prevailed in the stimulus space location and colour classification task. Conversely, the ordinal position effect prevailed in the stimulus order classification task. These results suggested that (1) the spatial stimulus-response compatibility effect (or Simon effect) and the ordinal position effect cannot appear simultaneously in some experimental contexts and that (2) the task context predicted which of these effects prevailed. From these results, we conclude that the ordinal symbols could be coded depending on multiple reference frames, including spatial and non-spatial reference frame, and the use of the reference frame was mediated by the task context.
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- Wendian Shi
- Department of Psychology, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai, China.
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- Department of Psychology, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Psychology, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Psychology, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai, China
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Cevada T, Conde E, Marques D, Deslandes AC. Test-retest reliability of the simon task: a short version proposal. Somatosens Mot Res 2019; 36:275-282. [PMID: 31718376 DOI: 10.1080/08990220.2019.1689114] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Background: The standard version of the Simon task (an instrument for assessing attentional demands, inhibitory control and the perception-action cycle) comprises a total of 168 trials. Different versions of this task are used in the literature, but it is not clear whether the Simon effect can be found using brief versions of the test.Purpose: This study aims to investigate the presence of the Simon effect and its test-retest reliability in a brief version of 28 trials of the Simon task.Material and Methods: Ninety-two (92) subjects between the ages of 18-30 participated in this study. Participants performed two sessions (test and retest) in which the brief battery of the Simon task was used. Latency (reaction time - RT) and the accuracy (number of errors) were measured for the two typical conditions of the test (corresponding and non-corresponding).Results: A significant interaction (two-way ANOVA) between condition and moment (test vs. retest) was found for RT. Main effects were observed for both conditions (corresponding vs. non- corresponding) and moment (test vs. retest). A good measurement of reliability (α Cronbach = 0.883) was also observed.Conclusions: The 28-trial battery of the Simon Task seems to be efficient for eliciting the Simon Effect and it can therefore be considered reliable.
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- Thais Cevada
- Post Graduate Program in Exercise and Sports Sciences (PPGCEE/IEFD), Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.,Laboratory of Neuroscience of Exercise (LaNEx), Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Department of Psychology, Institute of Social Sciences and Regional Development, Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Laboratory of Neuroscience of Exercise (LaNEx), Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Laboratory of Neuroscience of Exercise (LaNEx), Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.,Institute of Psychiatry, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Shafritz KM, Ikuta T, Greene A, Robinson DG, Gallego J, Lencz T, DeRosse P, Kingsley PB, Szeszko PR. Frontal lobe functioning during a simple response conflict task in first-episode psychosis and its relationship to treatment response. Brain Imaging Behav 2019; 13:541-553. [PMID: 29744804 DOI: 10.1007/s11682-018-9876-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Prior functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies have investigated the neural mechanisms underlying cognitive control in patients with psychosis with findings of both hypo- and hyperfrontality. One factor that may contribute to inconsistent findings is the use of complex and polyfactorial tasks to investigate frontal lobe functioning. In the current study we employed a simple response conflict task during fMRI to examine differences in brain activation between patients experiencing their first-episode of psychosis (n = 33) and age- and sex-matched healthy volunteers (n = 33). We further investigated whether baseline brain activation among patients predicted changes in symptom severity and treatment response following 12 weeks of controlled antipsychotic treatment. During the task subjects were instructed to press a response button on the same side or opposite side of a circle that appeared on either side of a central fixation point. Imaging data revealed that for the contrast of opposite-side vs. same-side, patients showed significantly greater activation compared with healthy volunteers in the anterior cingulate cortex and intraparietal sulcus. Among patients, greater baseline anterior cingulate cortex, temporal-parietal junction, and superior temporal cortex activation predicted greater symptom reduction and therapeutic response following treatment. All findings remained significant after covarying for task performance. Intact performance on this relatively parsimonious task was associated with frontal hyperactivity suggesting the need for patients to utilize greater neural resources to achieve task performance comparable to healthy individuals. Moreover, frontal hyperactivity observed using a simple fMRI task may provide a biomarker for predicting treatment response in first-episode psychosis.
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- Keith M Shafritz
- Department of Psychology, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY, USA. .,Center for Psychiatric Neuroscience, The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, Manhasset, NY, USA.
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- Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, School of Applied Sciences, University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY, USA
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- Center for Psychiatric Neuroscience, The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, Manhasset, NY, USA.,Division of Psychiatry Research, Northwell Health System, Zucker Hillside Hospital, Glen Oaks, NY, USA.,Departments of Psychiatry and Molecular Medicine, Hofstra Northwell School of Medicine, Hempstead, NY, USA
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- Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY, USA.,New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Westchester Division, White Plains, NY, USA
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- Center for Psychiatric Neuroscience, The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, Manhasset, NY, USA.,Division of Psychiatry Research, Northwell Health System, Zucker Hillside Hospital, Glen Oaks, NY, USA.,Departments of Psychiatry and Molecular Medicine, Hofstra Northwell School of Medicine, Hempstead, NY, USA
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- Center for Psychiatric Neuroscience, The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, Manhasset, NY, USA.,Division of Psychiatry Research, Northwell Health System, Zucker Hillside Hospital, Glen Oaks, NY, USA.,Departments of Psychiatry and Molecular Medicine, Hofstra Northwell School of Medicine, Hempstead, NY, USA
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- Department of Radiology, North Shore University Hospital, Manhasset, NY, USA
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- James J. Peters VA Medical Center, Mental Illness Research Education Clinical Center, Bronx, NY, USA.,Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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Hübner R, Töbel L. Conflict resolution in the Eriksen flanker task: Similarities and differences to the Simon task. PLoS One 2019; 14:e0214203. [PMID: 30921368 PMCID: PMC6438467 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0214203] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/22/2018] [Accepted: 03/10/2019] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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In the Eriksen flanker task as well as in the Simon task irrelevant activation produces a response conflict that has to be resolved by mental control mechanisms. Despite these similarities, however, the tasks differ with respect to their delta functions, which express how the congruency effects develop with response time. The slope of the delta function is mostly positive for the flanker task, but negative for the Simon task. Much effort has been spent to explain this difference and to investigate whether it results from task-specific control. A prominent account is that the temporal overlap between irrelevant and relevant response activation is larger in the flanker task than in the Simon task. To test this hypothesis, we increased the temporal distance in a flanker task by presenting the flankers ahead of the target. This not only produced negatively sloped delta functions but also caused reversed congruency effects. We also conducted a Simon-task experiment in which we varied the proportion of congruent stimuli. As a result, the delta function was negatively sloped only if the proportion was low. These results demonstrate that a long temporal distance is necessary but not sufficient for observing negatively sloped delta functions. Finally, we modeled the data with drift-diffusion models. Together, our results show that differently sloped delta functions can be produced with both tasks. They further indicate that activation suppression is an important control mechanism that can be adapted rather flexibly to the control demands.
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- Ronald Hübner
- Department of Psychology, Universität Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany
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- Department of Psychology, Universität Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany
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- Department of Psychological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA
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Thomaschke R, Miall RC, Rueß M, Mehta PR, Hopkins B. Visuomotor and motorvisual priming with different types of set-level congruency: evidence in support of ideomotor theory, and the planning and control model (PCM). PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCH 2018; 82:1073-1090. [PMID: 28756514 PMCID: PMC6132632 DOI: 10.1007/s00426-017-0885-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/08/2017] [Accepted: 06/28/2017] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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Perception can prime action (visuomotor priming), and action can prime perception (motorvisual priming). According to ideomotor theory both effects rely on the overlap of mental representations between perception and action. This implies that both effects get more pronounced the more features they share. We tested this hypothesis by employing in a motorvisual (Exp. 1) and in a visuomotor (Exp. 2) setting, three different pairs of left/right target stimuli (hand pictures, arrows, and words) varying in how strongly they overlap with the pair of left/right responses. For two stimulus pairs (hands and words) the hypothesis was confirmed: hand pictures share more features with the responses than words, consequently hand pictures produced a stronger visuomotor and a stronger motorvisual priming effect than words. However, arrow stimuli showed a different pattern: the temporal dynamics of both priming effects, as well as the direction of the effect seen in motorvisual priming, were significant but opposite to that of the hand and word stimuli. This suggests that the arrows' representations were not involved in ideomotor processes, and we propose instead that they were represented in a spatial or scalar fashion, outside the representations assumed in ideomotor theory. The results are discussed in the context of ideomotor theory, and the planning and control model of motorvisual priming.
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- Roland Thomaschke
- Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK.
- Institut für Psychologie, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Engelbergerstraße 41c, 79085, Freiburg, Germany.
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- Institut für Psychologie, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Engelbergerstraße 41c, 79085, Freiburg, Germany
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Proctor RW, Lien MC, Thompson L. Do silhouettes and photographs produce fundamentally different object-based correspondence effects? Cognition 2017; 169:91-101. [PMID: 28865287 DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2017.08.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/31/2017] [Revised: 08/23/2017] [Accepted: 08/24/2017] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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When participants classify pictures of objects as upright or inverted with a left or right keypress, responses are faster if the response location (left/right) corresponds with the location of a handle (left/right) than if it does not. This result has typically been attributed to a grasping affordance (automatic activation of muscles associated with grasping the object with the ipsilateral hand), but several findings have indicated instead that the effect is a spatial correspondence effect, much like the Simon effect for object location. Pappas (2014) reported evidence he interpreted as showing that spatial coding predominates with silhouettes of objects, whereas photographs of objects yield affordance-based effects. We conducted two experiments similar to those of Pappas, using frying pans as stimuli, with our two experiments differing in whether the entire object was centered on the display screen or the base was centered. When the objects were centered, a positive correspondence effect relative to the handle was evident for the silhouettes but a negative correspondence effect for the photographs. When the base was centered, the handle was clearly located to the left or right side of the display, and both silhouettes and photographs produced correspondence effects of similar size relative to the handle location. Despite the main results being counter to the grasping affordance hypothesis, response-time distribution analyses suggest that, instead of activating automatically at fast responses, an effector-specific component of the hypothesized type may come into play for responses that are selected after the handle location has been identified.
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Size perception is known to influence our usual interactions with environment. Numerous studies highlighted that during the visual presentation of an object, the properties of manual actions vary as a function of this object's size. In order to better understand the dynamic variations of relationships between size perception and action, we used an experimental paradigm consisting in two phases. During a previous implicit learning phase, a manual response (right or left) was specifically associated with the appearance of a large or small stimulus. During further test phase, participants were required to prepare a response while discriminating the color of a stimulus (GO/No GO task). We observed that the response execution was faster when the size of the stimulus was congruent with the size that had been associated to this response (during implicit learning phase). These results suggest that when a response usually co-occurs with visual stimuli characterized by a specific size pattern, the response and the size pattern become integrated. Any subsequent preparation and execution of this action are therefore influenced by the reactivation of this visual pattern. This result brings out new insights on how sensorimotor interactions may modulate the ability to anticipate perceptive size variations in the environment.
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- Alexandre Coutte
- Centre de Recherche sur le Sport et le Mouvement (CeRSM), Université Paris Nanterre; Laboratoire d'Anthropologie et de Psychologie Cliniques, Cognitives et Sociales (LAPCOS), Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis, France
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- Laboratoire Epsylon, Université Paul Valery Montpellier 3, France
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- Centre de Recherche sur le Sport et le Mouvement (CeRSM), Université Paris Nanterre, France
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- Laboratoire Epsylon, Université Paul Valery Montpellier 3, France
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HiTEC: a connectionist model of the interaction between perception and action planning. PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCH 2016; 81:1085-1109. [PMID: 27620189 PMCID: PMC5641286 DOI: 10.1007/s00426-016-0803-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/07/2015] [Accepted: 08/29/2016] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
Abstract
Increasing evidence suggests that perception and action planning do not represent separable stages of a unidirectional processing sequence, but rather emerging properties of highly interactive processes. To capture these characteristics of the human cognitive system, we have developed a connectionist model of the interaction between perception and action planning: HiTEC, based on the Theory of Event Coding (Hommel et al. in Behav Brain Sci 24:849–937, 2001). The model is characterized by representations at multiple levels and by shared representations and processes. It complements available models of stimulus–response translation by providing a rationale for (1) how situation-specific meanings of motor actions emerge, (2) how and why some aspects of stimulus–response translation occur automatically and (3) how task demands modulate sensorimotor processing. The model is demonstrated to provide a unitary account and simulation of a number of key findings with multiple experimental paradigms on the interaction between perception and action such as the Simon effect, its inversion (Hommel in Psychol Res 55:270–279, 1993), and action–effect learning.
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Miller J. S-R compatibility effects on motor potentials associated with hand and foot movements. Psychophysiology 2015; 53:493-506. [PMID: 26544150 DOI: 10.1111/psyp.12574] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/24/2015] [Accepted: 10/12/2015] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Two four-choice reaction time (RT) experiments used the lateralized readiness potential (LRP) and the limb selection potential (LSP) to assess the effects of spatial S-R compatibility on motor processes. Individual stimuli were presented at one corner of a square centered at fixation, and each response was made with the left or right hand or foot. In Experiment 1, the correct response was determined by stimulus location, whereas in Experiment 2 it was determined by stimulus identity. Horizontal and vertical compatibility affected both RT and response accuracy, but the LRP and LSP results suggested that compatibility had little or no direct effect on the duration of motor processes. In addition, the results suggest that the relatively new LSP measure is a useful index of motor activation processes. Its insensitivity to horizontal stimulus artifacts makes it especially useful for studying the effects of horizontal spatial compatibility.
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- Jeff Miller
- Department of Psychology, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
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Coutté A, Richez A, Coello Y, Olivier G. Concurrent right–left and amplitude spatial congruency effects in a visual discrimination task. VISUAL COGNITION 2015. [DOI: 10.1080/13506285.2015.1088606] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Association between a color and a manual response activation modulates the response planning of typically developing children in a subsequent Simon task. Atten Percept Psychophys 2015; 77:2181-8. [PMID: 26269387 DOI: 10.3758/s13414-015-0972-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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The Simon effect usually refers to the observation that responding to a nonspatial feature of a stimulus is faster when the position of the stimulus (task-irrelevant) matches the position of the to-be-executed response. The Simon effect can disappear when the Simon task is preceded by a spatial compatibility task with an incompatible mapping. In this experiment, during a preliminary phase, 20 children had to decide whether the outline of a colored stimulus was dotted or continuous. Green stimuli were presented exclusively on the right, whereas red stimuli were presented on the left (the color was task-irrelevant). The participants then had to perform a Simon task. When the instructions required them to press either the left or the right button for red or green stimuli, respectively (Group A), the Simon effect on response latencies was not significant. With the opposite instructions (the right or left button for red or green stimuli, respectively; Group B), the Simon effect was significant on response latencies. The Simon effect was significant on movement times for both groups. These results suggest that during the preliminary phase, each color became associated with the manual response automatically activated by that color's position. In the subsequent Simon task, the presentation of the color activated the associated response. This modulated the planning of the to-be-executed response.
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Bexkens A, van den Wildenberg WPM, Tijms J. Rapid Automatized Naming in Children with Dyslexia: Is Inhibitory Control Involved? DYSLEXIA (CHICHESTER, ENGLAND) 2015; 21:212-234. [PMID: 25530120 DOI: 10.1002/dys.1487] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/08/2014] [Revised: 08/18/2014] [Accepted: 12/01/2014] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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Rapid automatized naming (RAN) is widely seen as an important indicator of dyslexia. The nature of the cognitive processes involved in rapid naming is however still a topic of controversy. We hypothesized that in addition to the involvement of phonological processes and processing speed, RAN is a function of inhibition processes, in particular of interference control. A total 86 children with dyslexia and 31 normal readers were recruited. Our results revealed that in addition to phonological processing and processing speed, interference control predicts rapid naming in dyslexia, but in contrast to these other two cognitive processes, inhibition is not significantly associated with their reading and spelling skills. After variance in reading and spelling associated with processing speed, interference control and phonological processing was partialled out, naming speed was no longer consistently associated with the reading and spelling skills of children with dyslexia. Finally, dyslexic children differed from normal readers on naming speed, literacy skills, phonological processing and processing speed, but not on inhibition processes. Both theoretical and clinical interpretations of these results are discussed.
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- Anika Bexkens
- Department of Psychology, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Psychology, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Cognitive Science Center Amsterdam (CSCA), University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Psychology, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Rudolf Berlin Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- IWAL Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Scorolli C, Pellicano A, Nicoletti R, Rubichi S, Castiello U. The Simon Effect in Action: Planning and/or On-Line Control Effects? Cogn Sci 2014; 39:972-91. [DOI: 10.1111/cogs.12188] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/28/2013] [Revised: 04/30/2014] [Accepted: 05/07/2014] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Section for Clinical-Cognitive Sciences; Department of Neurology Medical Faculty; RWTH Aachen University
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- Department of Communication and Economics; University of Modena and Reggio-Emilia
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- Department of General Psychology; University of Padova
- Center for Cognitive Neuroscience; University of Padova
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Ivanoff J, Blagdon R, Feener S, McNeil M, Muir PH. On the temporal dynamics of spatial stimulus-response transfer between spatial incompatibility and Simon tasks. Front Neurosci 2014; 8:243. [PMID: 25191217 PMCID: PMC4137233 DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2014.00243] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/03/2014] [Accepted: 07/22/2014] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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The Simon effect refers to the performance (response time and accuracy) advantage for responses that spatially correspond to the task-irrelevant location of a stimulus. It has been attributed to a natural tendency to respond toward the source of stimulation. When location is task-relevant, however, and responses are intentionally directed away (incompatible) or toward (compatible) the source of the stimulation, there is also an advantage for spatially compatible responses over spatially incompatible responses. Interestingly, a number of studies have demonstrated a reversed, or reduced, Simon effect following practice with a spatial incompatibility task. One interpretation of this finding is that practicing a spatial incompatibility task disables the natural tendency to respond toward stimuli. Here, the temporal dynamics of this stimulus-response (S-R) transfer were explored with speed-accuracy trade-offs (SATs). All experiments used the mixed-task paradigm in which Simon and spatial compatibility/incompatibility tasks were interleaved across blocks of trials. In general, bidirectional S-R transfer was observed: while the spatial incompatibility task had an influence on the Simon effect, the task-relevant S-R mapping of the Simon task also had a small impact on congruency effects within the spatial compatibility and incompatibility tasks. These effects were generally greater when the task contexts were similar. Moreover, the SAT analysis of performance in the Simon task demonstrated that the tendency to respond to the location of the stimulus was not eliminated because of the spatial incompatibility task. Rather, S-R transfer from the spatial incompatibility task appeared to partially mask the natural tendency to respond to the source of stimulation with a conflicting inclination to respond away from it. These findings support the use of SAT methodology to quantitatively describe rapid response tendencies.
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- Jason Ivanoff
- Department of Psychology, Saint Mary's University Halifax, NS, Canada
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- Department of Psychology, Saint Mary's University Halifax, NS, Canada
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- Department of Psychology, Saint Mary's University Halifax, NS, Canada
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- Department of Psychology, Saint Mary's University Halifax, NS, Canada
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- Department of Mathematics and Computing Science, Saint Mary's University Halifax, NS, Canada
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Song X, Chen J, Proctor RW. Correspondence Effects with Torches: Grasping Affordance or Visual Feature Asymmetry? Q J Exp Psychol (Hove) 2014; 67:665-75. [PMID: 23972094 DOI: 10.1080/17470218.2013.824996] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Three experiments were conducted to determine whether an object-based correspondence effect for torch (flashlight) stimuli reported by Pellicano et al. [(2010). Simon-like and functional affordance effects with tools: The effects of object perceptual discrimination and object action state. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 63, 2190–2201] is due to a grasping affordance provided by the handle or asymmetry of feature markings on the torch. In Experiment 1 the stimuli were the same as those from Pellicano et al.'s Experiment 2, whereas in Experiments 2 and 3 the stimuli were modified versions with the graspable handle removed. Participants in all experiments performed upright/inverted orientation judgements on the torch stimuli. The results of Experiment 1 replicated those of Pellicano et al.: A small but significant object-based correspondence effect was evident, mainly when the torch was in an active state. With the handle of the torch removed in Experiment 2, making the barrel markings more asymmetric in the display, the correspondence effect was larger. Experiment 3 directly demonstrated an effect of barrel-marking asymmetry on the correspondence effect: When only the half of the markings nearest the light end of the torch was included, the correspondence effect reversed to favour the light end. The results are in agreement with a visual feature-asymmetry account and are difficult to reconcile with a grasping-affordance account.
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- Xiaolei Song
- College of Psychology, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an, China
- Department of Psychological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA
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- Department of Psychological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA
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- Department of Psychological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA
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Duzcu H, Hohenberger A. Prospective duration judgments: the role of temporality and executive demands of concurrent tasks. Acta Psychol (Amst) 2014; 147:34-41. [PMID: 24176728 DOI: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2013.10.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/14/2013] [Revised: 09/01/2013] [Accepted: 10/04/2013] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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It is known that concurrent non-temporal tasks shorten reproduced temporal durations in prospective duration judgments. Two experiments were carried out, one comparing a concurrent temporal task to a minimally demanding concurrent task (Experiment 1) and one comparing an executive concurrent (Simon) task with a less demanding non-executive concurrent task (Experiment 2). An effect of the concurrent task type on temporal reproductions was found. Furthermore, a duration length effect was found, where longer durations were underestimated more than shorter durations. This effect tended to be stronger for the experiments that included a concurrent task that demanded high attention.
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- Halil Duzcu
- METU Informatics Institute, Cognitive Science Department, Universiteler Mah. Dumlupınar Blv. No.1, 06800 Çankaya Ankara, Turkey.
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- METU Informatics Institute, Cognitive Science Department, Universiteler Mah. Dumlupınar Blv. No.1, 06800 Çankaya Ankara, Turkey
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Evidence for strategic suppression of irrelevant activation in the Simon task. Acta Psychol (Amst) 2013; 144:166-72. [PMID: 23831497 DOI: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2013.05.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/25/2013] [Revised: 04/17/2013] [Accepted: 05/30/2013] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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It is well known that the Simon effect usually decreases with an increasing response time. According to a prominent account this is due to a gradually increasing suppression of irrelevant location-induced activation. What is open, however, and what was investigated in the present study, is to what extent this selective suppression can be adjusted strategically. We hypothesized that strategic suppression should depend on the availability of information about the inhibitory demands. Therefore, in two experiments the demand was modulated by varying the delay between a spatial cue and the target. In the first experiment, where target delay was randomized, there was a negative Simon effect for the longer delays. In a second experiment, where delay was blocked, the Simon effect remained positive. However, the overall Simon effect was larger than in Experiment 1. Together, our results show that the strength of selective suppression can be adjusted strategically, but that this does not necessarily lead to a smaller Simon effect.
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Movement planning and attentional control of visuospatial working memory: evidence from a grasp-to-place task. PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCH 2013; 78:494-505. [DOI: 10.1007/s00426-013-0499-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/26/2013] [Accepted: 06/25/2013] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Hommel B, Colzato LS, Scorolli C, Borghi AM, van den Wildenberg WP. Religion and action control: Faith-specific modulation of the Simon effect but not Stop-Signal performance. Cognition 2011; 120:177-85. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2011.04.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/06/2010] [Revised: 03/25/2011] [Accepted: 04/07/2011] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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The components of visual attention and the ubiquitous Simon effect. Acta Psychol (Amst) 2011; 136:225-34. [PMID: 20883970 DOI: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2010.08.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/04/2010] [Revised: 08/06/2010] [Accepted: 08/20/2010] [Indexed: 10/19/2022] Open
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Spatial responding is influenced by the degree of correspondence between the stimulus-response (S-R) code activated by the target's task-irrelevant location and the S-R code activated by the target's non-spatial, task-relevant feature. A generally accepted explanation of this "Simon effect," named after its discoverer, is that there is a natural tendency to respond towards the source of stimulation. First we will review the ubiquity of the Simon effect. Then we will review the literature, including our own studies when appropriate, that has explored the relationship between the Simon effect and the components of attention: alertness, orienting and executive control, with an emphasis on visual orienting. The Simon effect is reduced when participants are not alert and when executive control is effective in filtering out the irrelevant location information. When attention is oriented endogenously, or is captured exogenously by uninformative peripheral stimulation, the Simon effect is additive with attentional facilitation (i.e., the Simon effect is the same magnitude for targets presented at attended and unattended locations). Yet, some forms of orienting, such as orienting directed by gaze and biased by inhibition of return, modulate the Simon effect. We will explore the implications of these patterns of additivity and interaction for our understanding of both the Simon effect and spatial attention.
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