Temporal stimulus-response compatibility.
The study of element-level stimulus-response compatibility (SRC) has predominantly focused on spatial and symbolic relationships and has involved measures of response time and (dichotomous) error rate. This article explores a new form of SRC that is observed when duration is the relevant feature of both the stimulus and the response, using a more extensive analysis of performance accuracy and variability. The results indicate that element-level SRC generalizes to situations involving time as the relevant dimension of stimuli and responses. Evidence of this was found in all of the extracted measures of performance; however, temporal SRC was shown to have independent effects on when and how accurately a response was made. Implications for SRC research are discussed.
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Department of Psychology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA. mcg138@psu.edu
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D001307:Auditory Perception; D006801:Humans; D011930:Reaction Time; D013028:Space Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D013997:Time Factors; D014796:Visual Perception