The Plymouth Student Scientist
Document Type
Psychology Article
Abstract
Three experiments utilised video stimuli, showing an agent presenting objects in a behavioural stimulus-response compatibility paradigm, implicitly measuring responses to the agent’s wrist orientation and hand of presentation. A vertical wrist orientation might cue a complementary action response in an ecological setting, thus testing spatial congruence against interactive and imitative responses. In experiment 1, there was a significant main effect of the actor’s arm, (p<.001), responses to the actor’s right arm being faster than to the left arm. There were two significant interactions in experiments 2 and 3, between the actor’s arm and the participants’ hand of response, (p<.001 and p=.05, respectively). Contrary to experiment 1, these interactions are akin to a spatial Simon effect. Possible interpretations of these results are discussed in terms of visual occlusion, kinematics, and affordances, all of which are aspects of spatial negotiation.
Publication Date
2013-07-01
Publication Title
The Plymouth Student Scientist
Volume
6
Issue
1
First Page
177
Last Page
205
ISSN
1754-2383
Deposit Date
May 2019
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Recommended Citation
Hyne, Amanda
(2013)
"At arm's length: competing and complementary mechanisms,"
The Plymouth Student Scientist: Vol. 6:
Iss.
1, Article 5.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.24382/42w3-xa44
Available at:
https://pearl.plymouth.ac.uk/tpss/vol6/iss1/5
