Dissertation
Increased event frequency increases binding strength among feature codes
Washington State University
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Washington State University
05/2010
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.7273/000006128
Abstract
Withholding an action plan in memory for later execution can delay execution of another action, if the actions share a similar (compatible) action feature (e.g., response hand). This phenomenon, termed compatibility interference (CI) is thought to be caused by feature binding among action features that become unavailable when bound. We investigated whether increasing event frequency can cause the bindings of these features to increase in strength and bind together earlier. Participants planned and withheld a sequence of key-press responses (with their right or left hand) based on the identity of a stimulus (Event A), and then immediately executed a key-press response (with their right or left hand) to a second stimulus (Event B) based on the color of a pound sign. Four different stimuli were used for Event A, and one of those four stimuli was randomly selected to be presented three times more often than the other three. Event A and Event B were presented within 1250 ms of one another (Experiment 1) or within 100 ms of one another (Experiment 2). Results showed that the response to Event B was delayed when it required the same response hand as Event A as opposed to a different hand (CI), and the size of the CI effect was larger when Event A shared a high frequency response hand feature with Event B than when it did not. Implications for the Theory of Event Coding (e.g., Hommel, Mu?sseler, Aschersleben & Prinz, 2001) are discussed.
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- Title
- Increased event frequency increases binding strength among feature codes
- Creators
- Paul S. Mattson
- Contributors
- Lisa R. Fournier (Chair)Brian P DYRE (Committee Member)Jay Wright (Committee Member)Paul Michael Whitney (Committee Member) - Washington State University, Office of International Programs
- Awarding Institution
- Washington State University
- Academic Unit
- Department of Psychology
- Theses and Dissertations
- Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Washington State University
- Publisher
- Washington State University
- Number of pages
- 55
- Identifiers
- 99901055127401842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Dissertation