Temporal stimulus-response compatibility

J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform. 2001 Aug;27(4):870-8. doi: 10.1037//0096-1523.27.4.870.

Abstract

The study of element-level stimulus-response compatibility (SRC) has predominantly focused on spatial and symbolic relationships and has involved measures of response time and (dichotomous) error rate. This article explores a new form of SRC that is observed when duration is the relevant feature of both the stimulus and the response, using a more extensive analysis of performance accuracy and variability. The results indicate that element-level SRC generalizes to situations involving time as the relevant dimension of stimuli and responses. Evidence of this was found in all of the extracted measures of performance; however, temporal SRC was shown to have independent effects on when and how accurately a response was made. Implications for SRC research are discussed.

MeSH terms

  • Auditory Perception
  • Humans
  • Reaction Time
  • Space Perception / physiology*
  • Time Factors
  • Visual Perception