Alignment effects in beer mugs: Automatic action activation or response competition?

Autor: Sander A. Roest, Diane Pecher, Lilian Naeije, René Zeelenberg
Přispěvatelé: Brain and Cognition, Department of Psychology, Education and Child Studies
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2016
Předmět:
Adult
Male
Competitive Behavior
Linguistics and Language
Go/no-go task
Computer science
Object (grammar)
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Stimulus response compatibility
Article
050105 experimental psychology
Language and Linguistics
Competition (economics)
Random Allocation
Young Adult
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Orientation
Hand strength
Orientation (geometry)
Task Performance and Analysis
Reaction Time
Humans
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
Computer vision
Medicine(all)
Communication
Simon effect
Hand Strength
business.industry
05 social sciences
Cooking and Eating Utensils
Hand
Sensory Systems
Task (computing)
Spatial alignment
Action (philosophy)
Choice-reaction task
Female
Artificial intelligence
Stimulus–response compatibility
business
Psychomotor Performance
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Zdroj: Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 78(6), 1665-1680. Springer New York
Attention, Perception & Psychophysics
ISSN: 1943-3921
Popis: Responses to objects with a graspable handle are faster when the response hand and handle orientation are aligned (e.g., a key press with the right hand is required and the object handle is oriented to the right) than when they are not aligned. This effect could be explained by automatic activation of specific motor programs when an object is viewed. Alternatively, the effect could be explained by competition at the response level. Participants performed a reach-and-grasp or reach-and-button-press action with their left or right hand in response to the color of a beer mug. The alignment effect did not vary as a function of the type of action. In addition, the alignment effect disappeared in a go/no-go version of the task. The same results were obtained when participants made upright/inverted decisions, so that object shape was task-relevant. Our results indicate that alignment effects are not due to automatic motor activation of the left or right limb.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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