scholarly journals Alcohol approach tendencies in heavy drinkers: Comparison of effects in a relevant stimulus-response compatibility task and an approach/avoidance Simon task.

2011 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 697-701 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matt Field ◽  
Rhiane Caren ◽  
Gordon Fernie ◽  
Jan De Houwer
Keyword(s):  
Simon Task ◽  
Response Compatibility ◽  
Relevant Stimulus ◽  
Stimulus Response ◽  
Heavy Drinkers ◽  
Approach Avoidance ◽  
Stimulus Response Compatibility

scholarly journals Flowers and spiders in spatial stimulus-response compatibility: Does affective valence influence selection of task-sets or selection of responses?

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Motonori Yamaguchi ◽  
Jing Chen
Keyword(s):  
Simon Effect ◽  
Response Compatibility ◽  
Task Set ◽  
Stimulus Response ◽  
Spatial Stimulus ◽  
Stimulus Valence ◽  
Approach Avoidance ◽  
Stimulus Response Compatibility ◽  
Selection Of ◽  
Negative Stimuli

The present study examined the effect of stimulus valence on two levels of selection in the cognitive system, selection of a task-set and selection of a response. In the first experiment, participants performed a spatial compatibility task (pressing left and right key according to the locations of stimuli) in which stimulus-response mappings were determined by stimulus valence. There was a standard spatial stimulus-response compatibility (SRC) effect for positive stimuli (flowers) and a reversed SRC effect for negative stimuli (spiders), but the same data could be interpreted as showing faster responses when positive and negative stimuli were assigned to compatible and incompatible mappings, respectively, than when the assignment was opposite. Experiment 2 disentangled these interpretations, showing that valence did not influence a spatial SRC effect (Simon effect) when task-set retrieval was unnecessary. Experiments 3 and 4 replaced keypress responses with joystick deflections that afforded approach/avoidance action coding. Stimulus valence modulated the Simon effect (but did not reverse it) when the valence was task-relevant (Experiment 3) as well as when it was task-irrelevant (Experiment 4). Therefore, stimulus valence influences task-set selection and response selection, but the influence on the latter is limited to conditions where responses afford approach/avoidance action coding.

Transfer of orthogonal stimulus–response mappings to an orthogonal Simon task

2009 ◽  
Vol 62 (4) ◽  
pp. 746-765 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gi Yeul Bae ◽  
Yang Seok Cho ◽  
Robert W. Proctor
Keyword(s):  
Simon Effect ◽  
Simon Task ◽  
Visual Stimuli ◽  
Stimulus Location ◽  
Response Compatibility ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Response Code ◽  
Stimulus Response ◽  
Stimulus Response Compatibility ◽  
Alternative Mapping

When up–down stimulus locations are mapped to left–right keypresses, an overall advantage for the up–right/down–left mapping is often obtained that varies as a function of response eccentricity. This orthogonal stimulus–response compatibility (SRC) effect also occurs when stimulus location is irrelevant, a phenomenon called the orthogonal Simon effect, and has been attributed to correspondence of stimulus and response code polarities. The Simon effect for horizontal stimulus–response (S–R) arrangements has been shown to be affected by short-term S–R associations established through the mapping used for a prior SRC task in which stimulus location was relevant. We examined whether such associations also transfer between orthogonal SRC and Simon tasks and whether correspondence of code polarities continues to contribute to performance in the Simon task. In Experiment 1, the orthogonal Simon effect was larger after practising with an up–right/down–left mapping of visual stimuli to responses than with the alternative mapping, for which the orthogonal Simon effect tended to reverse. Experiment 2 showed similar results when practice was with high (up) and low (down) pitch tones, though the influence of practice mapping was not as large as that in Experiment 1, implying that the short-term S–R associations acquired in practice are at least in part not modality specific. In Experiment 3, response eccentricity and practice mapping were shown to have separate influences on the orthogonal Simon effect, as expected if both code polarity and acquired S–R associations contribute to performance.

scholarly journals Reaction time measures in deception research: Comparing the effects of irrelevant and relevant stimulus–response compatibility

2013 ◽  
Vol 144 (2) ◽  
pp. 224-231 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristina Suchotzki ◽  
Bruno Verschuere ◽  
Geert Crombez ◽  
Jan De Houwer
Keyword(s):  
Reaction Time ◽  
Response Compatibility ◽  
Relevant Stimulus ◽  
Stimulus Response ◽  
Stimulus Response Compatibility

scholarly journals Affective Influences without Approach-Avoidance Actions: On the Congruence Between Valence and Stimulus-Response Mappings

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Motonori Yamaguchi ◽  
Jing Chen
Keyword(s):  
Response Selection ◽  
Affective Processing ◽  
Response Compatibility ◽  
Affective Valence ◽  
Stimulus Response ◽  
Spatial Stimulus ◽  
Stimulus Valence ◽  
Approach Avoidance ◽  
Stimulus Response Compatibility ◽  
Affective Influences

The valence of stimuli can influence performance in the spatial stimulus-response compatibility task, but this observation could arise from the process of selecting responses or selecting stimulus-response mappings. The response-selection account proposes that spatial compatible and incompatible keypress responses serve as approaching and avoiding actions to the target. The mapping-selection account suggests that there is congruence between stimulus valence and stimulus-response mappings; positive-compatible/negative-incompatible is more congruent than negative-compatible/positive-incompatible. Whereas affective valence was part of the target stimuli to which participants responded in the previous studies, the present study isolated affective valence from the target by presenting an additional mapping cue separately from the target, so that spatially compatible and incompatible keypress responses could no longer serve as approaching and avoiding actions to valenced target stimuli. The present results revealed that responses were still faster when positive and negative mapping cues were assigned to the spatially compatible and incompatible mappings than when the assignment was reversed. The finding supports the mapping-selection account, indicating that positive and negative cues influence performance without approach/avoidance actions to valenced stimuli. The experiment provides important implications as to how tasks are represented and are dependent on affective processing.

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