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Right-left prevalence with task-irrelevant spatial codes.

Psychological research ·Vol. 69 ·No. 3 ·2005-01-00 ·Pages 167-78

Rubichi S, Nicoletti R, Umiltà C

Abstract

The present work investigated the right-left prevalence effect caused by the automatic activation of horizontal and vertical spatial codes in a task (Simon task) in which spatial information is task-irrelevant. Experiment 1 showed a horizontal Simon effect and a vertical Simon effect with a two-dimensional stimulus-response set. In Experiments 2 and 3, the right-left prevalence was obtained in two-dimensional Simon tasks with two contralateral effectors and four effectors respectively. Experiment 4 showed that horizontal coding is based on multiple spatial codes, whereas only one spatial code was formed for vertical coding. On the whole, these results support the notion that the right-left prevalence effect is a general phenomenon affecting spatial coding, and suggest that the horizontal dimension is prevalent because it is based on multiple spatial codes.

MeSH Terms
Analysis of Variance Functional Laterality Humans Italy Overlearning Psychomotor Performance Reaction Time Space Perception
Authors & Affiliations
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Rubichi Sandro
Dipartimento di Scienze Sociali, Cognitive e Quantitative, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Via Giglioli Valle 9, 42100 Reggio Emilia, Italy. [email protected]
Nicoletti Roberto
Umiltà Carlo
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Article Info
Journal
Psychological research
Abbr.
Psychol Res
ISSN
0340-0727
DOI
10.1007/s00426-003-0168-z
Email
[email protected]
Published
2005-01-00
Epub
2004-00-04
Pages
167-78
Language
English
Region
Germany
NLM ID
0435062
Subset
IM
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