Influence of short incompatible practice on the Simon effect: transfer along the vertical dimension and across vertical and horizontal dimensions.
In spatial compatibility and Simon tasks, the response is faster when stimulus and response locations are on the same side than when they are on opposite sides. It has been shown that a spatial incompatible practice leads to a subsequent modulation of the Simon effect along the horizontal dimension. It has also been reported that this modulation occurs both along and across vertical and horizontal dimensions, but only after intensive incompatible training (600 trials). In this work, we show that this modulatory effect can be obtained with a smaller number of incompatible trials, changing the spatial arrangement of the vertical response keys to obtain a stronger dimensional overlap between the spatial codes of stimuli and response keys. The results of Experiment 1 showed that 80 incompatible vertical trials abolished the Simon effect in the same dimension. Experiment 2 showed that a modulation of the vertical Simon effect could be obtained after 80 horizontal incompatible trials. Experiment 3 explored whether the transfer effect can also occur in a horizontal Simon task after a brief vertical spatial incompatibility task, and results were similar to the previous experiments. In conclusion, we suggest that the spatial arrangement between response key and stimulus locations may be critical to establish the short-term memory links that enable the transfer of learning between brief incompatible practices and the Simon effects, both along the vertical dimension and across vertical and horizontal dimensions.
Programa de Pós-graduação em Psicologia, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil.
Erick F Q
EF
Conde
Programa de Pós-graduação em Neurociências, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Roberto Sena
RS
Fraga-Filho
Unidade Acadêmica Ciências da Vida, Universidade Federal de Campina Grande, Cajazeiras, Paraíba, Brazil. allanpablolameira@gmail.com.|Centro de Formação de Professores-Unidade Acadêmica Ciências da Vida, Universidade Federal de Campina Grande, Rua Sérgio Moreira s/n, Cajazeiras, Paraíba, 58900-000, Brazil. allanpablolameira@gmail.com.
Allan Pablo
AP
Lameira
Departamento de Psicologia, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.|Department of Psychology, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK.
Daniel C
DC
Mograbi
Dipartimento di Neuroscienze, Università di Parma, Parma, Italy.
Lucia
L
Riggio
Programa de Pós-graduação em Neurociências, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Luiz G
LG
Gawryszewski
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D001288:Attention; D005260:Female; D007839:Functional Laterality; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009949:Orientation / Q000502:physiology*; D010775:Photic Stimulation; D011597:Psychomotor Performance; D011930:Reaction Time / Q000502:physiology*; D013028:Space Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D014163:Transfer, Psychology / Q000502:physiology*; D055815:Young Adult
Dimensional overlap; Short-term memory; Simon effect; Spatial compatibility; Transfer of learning