A response-selection basis for the mixed-category, repeated-stimulus inferiority effect

Proctor, Robert W.; Fober, Gene W.

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“…All this implies that the PRE in our study and the PRE reported in the triad study are qualitatively different: The former arises in early vision whereas the latter arises from a rapid accrual of noise information whose effect on target processing is definitely at the decision level. Recently, Proctor and Fober (1988) obtained the NRE in a triad presentation of stimuli from two different categories, digits and letters, but this NRE disappeared when response assignment was categorically determined. This and other results led those authors to claim response selection as the locus of the NRE.…”

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Stimulus repetition effects and the dimension-feature distinction in alternative targets.

Kim¹,

Kwak²

1990

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Perfor

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The negative repetition effect (NRE) refers to a poorer perception of the target in noise-same-as-target than in noise-alternative-target displays. Using the parenthesis as target and noise that are either identical or different in orientation, we tested predictions derived from a feature-specific inhibition model (Bjork & Murray, 1977) that explains the NRE as arising from inhibitory interactions among channels handling identical inputs. Contrary to our expectation of evidence for orientation-specific inhibition, a positive repetition effect (PRE) was observed. We also found a PRE for the dimension target sets whose stimuli differ only in orientation and an NRE for the feature target sets whose stimuli differ in the number of elements. Further experiments that systematically varied relationships between alternative targets indicate that these basic findings, termed the stimulus attributes effects, do not arise from pattern masking, perceptual strategies, or response bias.

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Stimulus repetition effects and the dimension-feature distinction in alternative targets.

Kim¹,

Kwak²

1990

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Perfor

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“…The feature-specific inhibition model (Bjork & Murray, 1977) is also an unlikely candidate because RB has been found to occur when C I and C2 are separated by several distractor items with long ISIs (Kanwisher, 1987;Park & Kanwisher, 1994). The model has also been questioned on the basis of other findings, such as the mixed-category, repeated-stimulus inferiority effect (see, e.g., Egeth & Santee, 1981;Proctor & Fober, 1988) obtained when two stimuli are not physically identical. For example, Egeth and Santee showed that RB (which they call the repeatedletter inferiority effect) occurred even when the two letters were visually dissimilar and shared only the same name (e.g., Aa).…”

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Repetition blindness under minimum memory load: Effects of spatial and temporal proximity and the encoding effectiveness of the first item

Luo

Caramazza

1995

Perception & Psychophysics

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Repetition blindness (RB) refers to the reduced performance in reporting a repeated as opposed to a nonrepeated item in rapid serial visual presentation. In Experiment 1, we found RB for two-item stimuli in uncertain locations. The magnitude of RB decreased significantly with increases in interstimulus interval, but not with increases in spatial separation, indicating that RB is determined primarily by temporal factors. In Experiment 2, we found RB when subjects were required to report only the second of two successively presented items. The magnitude of RB increased with the duration of the first item, indicating that RB is determined by the encoding effectiveness of the first item. The results of this study collectively indicate that RB is not a memory or a sensory phenomenon, but rather a perceptual phenomenon occurring at the stage of identity encoding. The findings also undermine the arguments (Kanwisher, 1987) that have been offered in favor of the type-token binding failure hypothesis and indicate instead that type-node refractoriness may be the cause of RB.

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“…For example, when a target letter is flanked in irrelevant locations by instances of a letter from the same set, responses typicaIly are faster when the flanker and target identities correspond in terms of the response that each indicates than when they do not (see, e.g., Eriksen & Eriksen, 1974). This effect, known as the Eriksen flanker effect, has been shown to persist with little change in magnitude across four sessions of approximately 300 trials each (Proctor & Fober, 1988). Also, the Stroop effect for color naming, in which naming of the ink color ofa form is slowed when the form speIls an irrelevant color word, has been shown to decrease with practice but not to disappear (see, e.g., Clawson et aI., 1995;Stroop, 1935Stroop, /1992, as has a version of the Stroop effect in which reading location words (left, right, up, down) was slowed when they were printed inside irrelevant arrows that pointed in conflicting directions (Shor, Hatch, Hudson, Landrigan, & Shaffer, 1972).…”

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Processing irrelevant location information: Practice and transfer effects in choice-reaction tasks

1999

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Left or right keypresses to a relevant stimulus dimension are faster when the stimulus location, although irrelevant, corresponds with that of the response than when it does not. This phenomenon, called the Simon effect, persisted across 1,800trials of practice, although its magnitude was reduced, Practice with the relevant stimulus dimension presented at a centered location had little influence on the magnitude of the Simon effect when irrelevant location was varied subsequently, and practice with location irrelevant prior to performing with location relevant slowed responses, After practice responding to stimulus location with an incompatible spatial mapping, the Simon effect was reversed (i.e, responses were slower when stimulus location corresponded with response location) when location was made irrelevant. When the response keys were labeled according to the relevant stimulus dimension (the Hedge and Marsh [1975] task variation), this reversal from practice with a spatially incompatible mapping was found for both the congruent and the incongruent relevant stimulus-response mappings, Thus, task-defmed associations between stimulus location and response location affect performance when location is changed from relevant to irrelevant, apparently through producing automatic activation of the previously associated response,

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A response-selection basis for the mixed-category, repeated-stimulus inferiority effect

Cited by 7 publications

References 33 publications

Stimulus repetition effects and the dimension-feature distinction in alternative targets.

Stimulus repetition effects and the dimension-feature distinction in alternative targets.

Repetition blindness under minimum memory load: Effects of spatial and temporal proximity and the encoding effectiveness of the first item

Processing irrelevant location information: Practice and transfer effects in choice-reaction tasks

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