Stimulus-Response Compatibility

Stimulus-Response Compatibility
Author: R.W. Proctor
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 525
Release: 1989-12-18
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0080867197

Stimulus-response compatibility refers to the finding that certain mappings of stimuli to responses produce faster and more accurate responding than do others. The present volume surveys compatibility research which falls into four broad categories: (a) mental representation and coding (b) neurophysiological mechanisms (c) motor performance (d) human factors applications. The major findings and models within each of the categories are summarized, and an integrated perspective is provided. The research indicates that compatibility effects reflect basic cognitive processes that bear on a range of issues in cognitive science and that have applied implications for human factors specialists.

Task Switching

Task Switching
Author: Iring Koch
Publisher: Hogrefe Pub.
Total Pages: 62
Release: 2013-03-01
Genre: Adaptability (Psychology)
ISBN: 9780889374454

Insights on the cognitive processes behind the flexibility of human behavior that enables us to adapt to differing demands and changing circumstances Human beings perform thousands of tasks each day, often in close succession or interleaved with each other, and "task switching" has become a buzz word. The precondition for calling something a task is the existence of an intention to perform it, in contrast to, e.g., producing unintended motor sequences. The very idea of task switching implies that the flexibility of human behavior requires cognitive control processes that can "re-configure" the task set (taken to broadly refer a specific configuration of representational elements and processing operations) in order to adapt to changing intentions, respond to novel or unexpected circumstances, and deal with problem solving situations. Understanding the functional mechanisms underlying cognitive control of task sets is therefore the holy grail of cognitive psychology - coveted but not easily attainable. The aim of this compilation is to provide both state-of-the art focused reviews on currently intensely debated topics and empirical contributions on outstanding current issues in task switching research. Topics covered include: o The role of cue processing in task switching o Task switching methodology o Episodic memory processes involved in cognitive control o Response inhibition in task switching o The processing of task-irrelevant stimuli o The multitasking mind

Stimulus-Response Compatibility Principles

Stimulus-Response Compatibility Principles
Author: Robert W. Proctor
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 360
Release: 2006-03-24
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9780415315364

Understanding of the factors that influence stimulus-response (S-R) compatibility and determine when and how compatibility effects will arise is a necessary foundation for appropriately applying compatibility principles in design and for evaluating the relative compatibility of alternative designs. Summarizing the state of contemporary knowledge regarding determinants of compatibility, Stimulus-Response Compatibility Principles: Data, Theory, and Application provides thorough, up-to-date coverage of basic and applied research coupled with an emphasis on relating this knowledge to specific design guidelines. Examining a broad range of theoretical and applied issues from the compatibility perspective, the authors review basic research devoted to theoretical issues concerning S-R compatibility in particular and the relation between perception and action more generally. They cover effects of different S-R mappings in simple and complex tasks, factors that influence response-selection efficiency, correspondence effects of irrelevant stimulus information, compatibility effects for multiple and orthogonal dimensions, consequences of mixing mappings and tasks, practice and transfer effects, compatibility effects in multiple-task performance, and direction of motion stereotypes. The authors provide a thorough treatment of alternative views, contrasting and comparing their strengths and weaknesses. They provide guidelines that incorporate current knowledge about compatibility effects. Previous books on S-R compatibility have been edited works that contained detailed descriptions of the findings of various research programs across the world. Consequently, those books do not provide a cohesive overview of the range of research on compatibility effects, and the treatments they provide are not easy to comprehend by individuals who lack a background in the area. Making information accessible to a broad range of researchers and practitioners, this text organizes, summarizes, and integrates the vast amount of knowledge concerning S-R compatibility.

Foundation of Stimulus-Response/Stimulus-Stimulus Compatability

Foundation of Stimulus-Response/Stimulus-Stimulus Compatability
Author: Sylvan Kornblum
Publisher:
Total Pages: 48
Release: 1998
Genre:
ISBN:

The research described in this final report continues, and greatly extends our ongoing investigations of basic, elemental, cognitive processes in humans. During the period covered by the report we focussed on validating the original dimensional overlap model (DO-'90: Kornblum, Hasbroucq & Osman, 1990), testing some of its fundamental predictions, and recasting the model itself in a computational form. These efforts appear to have been successful. The original model and its taxonomy have become an effective integrative framework in an important domain of human performance (stimulus-stimulus, and stimulus-response compatibility in the broadest sense of these terms), and encompass, in a principled manner, a broad family of performance tasks representing classic problems in human cognition (e.g., Stroop and Stroop-like tasks, Eriksen and Eriksen-like paradigms, and Simon and Simon-like effects). Our work has resulted in the publication of 10 peer reviewed articles, with 4 manuscripts presently under review, one dissertation, and 17 presentations at professional meetings. The model has also contributed an important theoretical perspective to investigators working on psychophysiological and neurophysiological mechanisms of response production, and stimulus-response association processes. The principal goal for our future work is to develop and extend the model further, and test its new properties and implications. Some of these new properties span inter- as well as intra-trial phenomena, and mark the beginnings of the theoretical and empirical bridges that we were hoping, originally, to be able to build between the family of SRC tasks, and the central problems of cognition.

Stimulus-Response Compatibility Principles

Stimulus-Response Compatibility Principles
Author: Robert W. Proctor
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 350
Release: 2006-03-24
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0203022793

Understanding of the factors that influence stimulus-response (S-R) compatibility and determine when and how compatibility effects will arise is a necessary foundation for appropriately applying compatibility principles in design and for evaluating the relative compatibility of alternative designs. Summarizing the state of contemporary knowledge re

Theoretical Issues in Stimulus-Response Compatibility

Theoretical Issues in Stimulus-Response Compatibility
Author: B. Hommel
Publisher: North Holland
Total Pages: 420
Release: 1996-12-25
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9780444823045

This book gathers together 10 important integrative theoretical approaches to stimulus-response compatibility, a field of special interest for the more general question of how human perception and action interact. The approaches, presented by their most active and influential proponents, as well as the sharp and critical commentaries also included in the book, cover a wide range of theoretical schools of thought and a rich body of empirical data. These highly stimulating papers and sharp comments offer both the theoretically interested professional and the student reader not only a comprehensive overview of the state of the art, but excellent insights into work in progress as well. This volume is an important contribution to the deeper understanding of the sensory-motor interface.

Automaticity and Control in Language Processing

Automaticity and Control in Language Processing
Author: Antje Meyer
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2007-01-24
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1135419671

Addresses key issues concerning the relationship between linguistic and non-linguistic processes, which will be of great interest to researchers and students in the area of language processing.