To be or not to be…included in an event file: Integration and retrieval of distractors in stimulus–response episodes is influenced by perceptual grouping.

Frings, Christian; Rothermund, Klaus

doi:10.1037/a0023915

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“…It seems that a retrieval of event files can be mediated by perceptual features (e.g., Frings & Rothermund, 2011;Hommel, 2004;Mayr & Buchner, 2006), by word entries in a lexicon (Giesen & Rothermund, 2011;Rothermund et al, 2005), by location information (Frings & Moeller, 2010), and also by conceptual representations of irrelevant stimuli-as evidenced by the results of the present study.…”

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Retrieval of event files can be conceptually mediated

Frings

Moeller

Rothermund³

2013

Atten Percept Psychophys

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Distractor-based retrieval of event files was assessed with a sequential priming experiment using a four-choice identification task. Pictures or sounds of four different animals (frog, chicken, lamb, singing bird) had to be categorized by pressing one of four keys. On each trial, a target and a distractor stimulus were presented simultaneously in different modalities. The relevant modality switched randomly between trials. Distractor repetition effects were modulated by the response relation between the prime and probe: Repeating the prime distractor in the probe produced facilitation if the response repeated, but not if a different response had to be given in the prime and probe. Repeating the prime distractor in the probe led to an automatic retrieval of the prime response. Importantly, this distractor-based response retrieval effect also emerged for those sequences in which the modality of the repeated distractor was switched between the prime and probe. This cross-modal priming effect indicates that distractors were integrated into event files on a conceptual level and that response retrieval processes were mediated by conceptual codes of the distractor stimuli.

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Retrieval of event files can be conceptually mediated

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2013

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“…In accordance with this statement, Frings andvan Dam andHommel (2010) showed that the binding between features of two objects is dependent on the spatial location of these objects. The integration between elements pertaining to different objects only binds with greater intensity if they share a spatial location (Frings & Rothermund, 2011;van Dam & Hommel, 2010). Moreover, concerning the interaction between location and especially motor response, Henderson (1996) explained this as a result of their strong intradomain coupling.…”

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“…Kahneman and colleagues, in their original definition of the object file, proposed that the different bindings that we make are classified and addressed via location codes; that is, the feature content of a file is only available if a probe object can be spatially related to a prime object (Kahneman et al, 1992). In accordance with this statement, Frings andvan Dam andHommel (2010) showed that the binding between features of two objects is dependent on the spatial location of these objects. The integration between elements pertaining to different objects only binds with greater intensity if they share a spatial location (Frings & Rothermund, 2011;van Dam & Hommel, 2010).…”

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Visuomotor integration of relevant and irrelevant angry and fearful facial expressions

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Grandjean

2016

Acta Psychologica

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Our brain codes the features of perceptual events in a distributed fashion, raising the question of how information belonging to one event is processed without any interference of features from other events. Hommel (1998) suggested the "event file" concept to elucidate these mechanisms: an episodic memory trace "binding" together perceptual features and actions related to an object. Using a similar paradigm, we designed a pilot experiment and four additional experiments to investigate whether emotion, similarly than perceptual features, could bind with a motor response when the emotion was relevant and irrelevant for the task. Few studies have revealed this to be the case. We investigated how angry and fearful faces expressed by avatars and humans might be subject to a binding phenomenon. Our results show that at least three degrees of visuomotor binding seem to coexist: one implicating the relevant feature of the task with a strong effect on behavior, another implicating the location with a smaller behavioral effect (even if not task related), and a third implicating non-task-related features with behavioral effects only under specific conditions in which emotion could play a role. Our adaptation of Hommel's paradigm showed that emotional percepts can be subject to visuomotor binding effects even if the emotion is not task related confirming the important role of emotional information for the central nervous system. These findings offer new perspective in the investigation of the emotion-action binding at the neuronal level.

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“…However, these experiments only assessed S-R effects across immediate or short lags between encoding and retrieval. The exception to this is Experiment 2b of Frings and Rothermund (2011), which presented a yellow circle between presentations of letters (the letters being the stimuli of experimental interest). Thus, despite the presence of an intervening stimulus, it was 570 THE QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY, 2016, 69 (3) consistent across trials and had little perceptual similarity to the main experimental stimuli.…”

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Retrieval of bindings between task-irrelevant stimuli and responses can facilitate behaviour under conditions of high response certainty

Horner

2016

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

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Repetition priming can be driven by the encoding and retrieval of stimulus–response (S–R) bindings. When a previously encoded S–R binding is retrieved, and is congruent with the response currently required, it can bias response-selection processes towards selecting the retrieved response, resulting in facilitation. Previous studies have used classification tasks at retrieval. Here, two (or more) response options are competing, and it is likely that any evidence (e.g., an S–R binding) in favour of one option will be utilized to effect a decision. Thus, S–R effects are likely to be seen when using such a task. It is unclear whether such effects can be seen under conditions of higher response certainty, when participants are explicitly cued to make a response. Across two experiments, evidence for a modulating influence of S–R bindings is seen despite using a response cueing method at retrieval to minimize response uncertainty and despite stimuli being task irrelevant. Finally, the results suggest that responses within these S–R bindings are coded at the level of left versus right hand, and not a more fine-grained within-hand thumb versus index finger. The results underline the resilience of S–R effects, suggesting that they are present even under conditions where no explicit object-oriented decision is required.

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To be or not to be…included in an event file: Integration and retrieval of distractors in stimulus–response episodes is influenced by perceptual grouping.

Cited by 91 publications

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Retrieval of event files can be conceptually mediated

Retrieval of event files can be conceptually mediated

Visuomotor integration of relevant and irrelevant angry and fearful facial expressions

Retrieval of bindings between task-irrelevant stimuli and responses can facilitate behaviour under conditions of high response certainty

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