Automatic sequential response priming and intentional response preparation in choice reaction tasks: Evidence from response repetition and response cuing |
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Authors: | Jos J. Adam Iring Koch |
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Affiliation: | a Department of Movement Sciences, Maastricht University, P.O. Box 616, 6200 MD, Maastricht, The Netherlands b Institute of Psychology, RWTH Aachen University, Jägerstr. 17/19, D-52056 Aachen, Germany |
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Abstract: | This study examined the interaction of response repetition and response cuing in a finger cuing task with a short and a long cue-stimulus interval (CSI). We observed shorter reaction times (RTs) with increasing CSI and a substantial response repetition benefit. However, this benefit was abolished at the long CSI, suggesting that response cuing neutralized the repetition effect. According to additive-factors logic, the observed interaction suggests that both repetition and cuing exert their influence on a common processing stage, which we identify as the response selection stage. We argue that cuing and repetition effects are expressions of distinct mental operations: cuing is based on intentional response code activation, whereas repetition is based on sequential, automatic response code priming. Cue-based intentional code activation starts slowly and increases with CSI, but sequential response priming is independent of CSI, explaining why cuing abolishes the response repetition benefit at the long CSI. |
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Keywords: | 2330 2340 |
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