Stimulus-target compatibility for reaching movements

Journal of Experimental Psychology. Human Perception and Performance
J F Stins, C F Michaels

Abstract

Reaction time, movement time, and initial direction of reaching movements toward a target in left or right hemispace were measured. In Experiment 1, the target of movement and hand had to be selected; movements toward the imperative stimulus were initiated faster than movements toward the alternate target, and ipsilateral reaches were initiated faster than contralateral reaches. In Experiment 2, the difference between ipsilateral and contralateral reaches disappeared when no selection of the hand had to occur. In Experiment 3, no target had to be selected, and only a stimulus-hand compatibility effect appeared. The results reveal different compatibility effects (stimulus-target, stimulus-hand, target-hand), implying that participants exploit different correspondences, depending on the degrees of freedom of the action. The notion of compatibility effects relating to movement targets offers a new perspective on the negative Simon effect and it questions the general concept of response codes.

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