Consistent evidence shows that practising with spatially incompatible stimulus–response trials modu- lates performance on following tasks requiring the solution of cognitive conflict such as the Simon and Stroop tasks. In the present study we assessed whether a spatially incompatible practice can modulate another effect that is thought to be due to a conflict between two response alternatives, the affordance effect. To this end, we requested participants to categorize pictures of common objects on the basis of their upright or inverted orientation. A group of participants performed the categorization task alone, while the other two groups performed the categorization task after practising with a spatial compatibility task with either a compatible or an incompatible mapping. Results showed that the spatially incompa- tible practice eliminated the affordance effect. These results indicate that the conflict at the basis of the affordance effect is not unavoidable but it rather permeable to modulations affecting the response selec- tion stage. Indeed the “emit the alternative spatial response” rule acquired during the spatially incom- patible task can transfer to and modulate how the subsequent affordance task is performed.

Modulation of the affordance effect through transfer of learning / G., Ottoboni; Iani, Cristina; A., Tessari; Rubichi, Sandro. - In: THE QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY. - ISSN 1747-0218. - STAMPA. - 66(12):(2013), pp. 2295-2302. [10.1080/17470218.2013.863370]

Modulation of the affordance effect through transfer of learning

IANI, Cristina;RUBICHI, Sandro
2013

Abstract

Consistent evidence shows that practising with spatially incompatible stimulus–response trials modu- lates performance on following tasks requiring the solution of cognitive conflict such as the Simon and Stroop tasks. In the present study we assessed whether a spatially incompatible practice can modulate another effect that is thought to be due to a conflict between two response alternatives, the affordance effect. To this end, we requested participants to categorize pictures of common objects on the basis of their upright or inverted orientation. A group of participants performed the categorization task alone, while the other two groups performed the categorization task after practising with a spatial compatibility task with either a compatible or an incompatible mapping. Results showed that the spatially incompa- tible practice eliminated the affordance effect. These results indicate that the conflict at the basis of the affordance effect is not unavoidable but it rather permeable to modulations affecting the response selec- tion stage. Indeed the “emit the alternative spatial response” rule acquired during the spatially incom- patible task can transfer to and modulate how the subsequent affordance task is performed.
2013
66(12)
2295
2302
Modulation of the affordance effect through transfer of learning / G., Ottoboni; Iani, Cristina; A., Tessari; Rubichi, Sandro. - In: THE QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY. - ISSN 1747-0218. - STAMPA. - 66(12):(2013), pp. 2295-2302. [10.1080/17470218.2013.863370]
G., Ottoboni; Iani, Cristina; A., Tessari; Rubichi, Sandro
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