1. Response Priming with Horizontally and Vertically Moving Primes: A Comparison of German, Malaysian, and Japanese Subjects
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Hannah Goymann, Laura Kalbfleisch, Katharina Schäfer, Christina Bermeitinger, A Lim, Lea Reuter, and Steve M. J. Janssen
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medicine.medical_specialty ,010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences ,horizontal and vertical motion ,Experimental and Cognitive Psychology ,cultural differences ,010501 environmental sciences ,Stimulus (physiology) ,Audiology ,01 natural sciences ,German ,Japan ,negative compatibility effect ,motion ,Germany ,medicine ,response priming ,Research Articles ,Applied Psychology ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences ,Mathematics ,Response priming ,General Neuroscience ,Malaysia ,inhibition ,language.human_language ,Psychiatry and Mental health ,Clinical Psychology ,language ,Psychology (miscellaneous) ,movement - Abstract
Response priming refers to the finding that a prime preceding a target influences the response to the target. With German subjects, horizontally moving dots as primes, and static arrows as targets, there are typically faster responses to compatible (i.e., prime and target are associated with the same response) as compared to incompatible targets (i.e., positive compatibility effect, PCE) with short stimulus onset asynchronies (SOAs). In contrast, with longer SOAs, subjects respond faster to incompatible as compared to compatible targets (i.e., negative compatibility effect, NCE). In the present study, we extended the evidence by adding vertically oriented materials. Furthermore, we tested subjects from Malaysia and Japan, where the vertical orientation is more present in daily life, and compared them to German subjects to investigate whether the amount of experience with one orientation influences the compatibility effects on this orientation. Overall, we found pronounced PCEs in the short SOA (i.e., 150 ms) but only reduced PCEs in the longer SOAs (i.e., 350, 550, and 750 ms) across all countries and orientations. There were no differences between the German and Malaysian samples, but the Japanese sample showed larger PCEs in the longer SOAs compared to both other samples. Furthermore, we found larger PCEs for horizontal than vertical materials in the short SOA and larger PCEs for vertical than horizontal materials in the longer SOAs. We discuss our findings in light of theories and findings on compatibility effects as well as attentional mechanisms.
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- 2020
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