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ArticleScientific reports2024

Verbal stimuli allow for symmetrical S-R priming effects between size and space.

Melanie Richter, Peter Wühr

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  1. Where does the processing of size meet the processing of space?Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2025
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Melanie RichterDepartment of Psychology, TU Dortmund University, Emil-Figge-Straße 50, 44227, Dortmund, Germany. melanie2.richter@tu-dortmund.de.
Peter WührDepartment of Psychology, TU Dortmund University, Emil-Figge-Straße 50, 44227, Dortmund, Germany.

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Abstract

The spatial-size association of response codes (SSARC) effect refers to the observation that left responses are faster and more accurate to small stimuli whereas right responses are faster and more accurate to large stimuli, as compared to the reverse assignment. The underlying spatial-size associations are strongly asymmetrical with physical size/location stimuli and vocal location/size responses and allow for regular but not reciprocal SSARC effects. Recent evidence, however, points towards an important role of stimulus mode in the emergence of reciprocal compatibility effects. We investigated the reciprocity of the SSARC effect with a different stimulus mode, namely with verbal size/location stimuli and vocal responses. In a size-location task, participants vocally responded to the words "small" or "large" by saying "left" or "right" according to a compatible ("small"-"left"/"large"-"right") or an incompatible mapping ("small"-"right"/"large"-"left"). In a location-size task, participants vocally responded to the words "left" or "right" by saying "small" or "large" according to a compatible ("left"-"small"/"right"-"large") or an incompatible ("left"-"large"/"right"-"small") mapping. We observed a regular and a reciprocal SSARC effect of similar size indicating symmetrical spatial-size associations. While regular SSARC effects thus emerge with verbal and physical size stimuli, reciprocal SSARC effects only emerge with verbal but not with physical location stimuli and vocal responses. Theoretical accounts of the SSARC effect differ in whether they predict reciprocal effects and whether they can account for the effect of stimulus mode on the reciprocal SSARC effect.

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Reaction TimeSpace PerceptionAdultFemaleHumansMaleSize PerceptionYoung Adult

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PMCPMC11538547

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