The role of attention for the Simon effect

• Published in: Psychological research Vol. 55; no. 3; p. 208
• Main Author: Hommel, B
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Germany 1993
• Subjects: Adult; Attention; Color Perception; Discrimination Learning; Female; Field Dependence-Independence; Functional Laterality; Humans; Male; Pattern Recognition, Visual; Psychomotor Performance; Reaction Time

It has been claimed that spatial attention plays a decisive role in the effect of irrelevant spatial stimulus-response correspondence (i.e., the Simon effect), especially the way the attentional focus is moved onto the stimulus (lateral shifting rather than zooming). This attentional-movement hypoth...