No evidence for automatic response activation with target onset in the avatar-compatibility task.

ABSTRACT: When people take the perspective of an avatar and perform a stimulus-response compatibility task, they generally show the same compatibility effects that are expected from the avatar's position instead of their own. In this study, we investigated if these effects are caused by automatic response activation, a concept featured in dual-route models of stimulus-response compatibility. In two experiments we asked 24 participants each to perform a compatibility task from an avatar's point of view. We introduced a delay between the presentation of the target and the avatar in half of the trials so that the participants had to wait until the avatar appeared to select the correct response. Because the automatic response activation is known to decay quickly, its influence is eliminated in this cond

SUBMITTER: Boffel C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7498477 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature