title: A common mechanism behind distractor-response and response-effect binding?
abstract: Short-term bindings between responses and events in the environment ensure efficient behavioral control. This notion holds true for two particular types of binding: bindings between responses and response-irrelevant distractor stimuli that are present at the time of responding, and also for bindings between responses and the effects they cause. Although both types of binding have been extensively studied in the past, little is known about their interrelation. In three experiments, we analyzed both types of binding processes in a distractor-response binding design and in a response-effect binding design, which yielded two central findings: (1) Distractor-response binding and response-effect binding effects were observed not only in their native, but also in the corresponding "non-native" design, and (2) a manipulation of retrieval delay affected both types of bindings in a similar way. We suggest that a general and unselective mechanism is responsible for integrating own responses with a large variety of stimuli.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Trier, Universitätsring 15, D-54296, Trier, Germany. moellerb@uni-trier.de.
authors.forename: Birte
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Moeller
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Würzburg, Röntgenring 11, D-97070, Würzburg, Germany.
authors.forename: Roland
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Pfister
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Würzburg, Röntgenring 11, D-97070, Würzburg, Germany.
authors.forename: Wilfried
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Kunde
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Trier, Universitätsring 15, D-54296, Trier, Germany.
authors.forename: Christian
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Frings
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001288:Attention; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007266:Inhibition, Psychological; D008297:Male; D008606:Mental Processes; D010775:Photic Stimulation / Q000379:methods; D011930:Reaction Time; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Cognitive control and automaticity; Perception and Action