16:00 - 17:30
Tue-H3-Talk 6--63
Tue-Talk 6
Room: H3
Chair/s:
Lars-Michael Schöpper
Localizing binding effects: How to find binding and retrieval in localization performance
Tue-H3-Talk 6-6304
Presented by: Lars-Michael Schöpper
Lars-Michael SchöpperChristian Frings
University of Trier, Department of Cognitive Psychology
Discriminating features of sequentially presented stimuli typically leads to effects of binding and retrieval marked by partial repetition costs: Repeating a response but changing a response-irrelevant feature impairs performance compared to a full repetition. In contrast, changing a response is impaired by repeating a response-irrelevant feature compared to a full change. Yet, these stimulus-response binding effects are typically not found when localizing visual stimuli: In such tasks – in which location repetitions and changes are systematically varied with repetitions and changes of nonspatial target identity (e.g., color) – there is often simply a location repetition cost, known as inhibition of return, unmodulated by repeating or changing the nonspatial target identity. Yet, it is possible to observe binding effects in localization performance. In this talk, we will give examples on how to do so, for example, by using a spatially incompatible response mapping, by changing the nonspatial information on a feature dimension level, or by presenting targets auditorily. Crucially, all these recent findings are based on combining ideas of action control, attentional orienting, and visual search, suggesting that an all-encompassing understanding of human selection and processing can be gained by incorporating different research strands of cognitive psychology.
Keywords: Action control, Stimulus-Response Binding, Attentional Orienting, Inhibition of Return (IOR), Visual Search, Task dependence