Localizing modality compatibility effects: Evidence from dual-task interference.

Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance, vol. 46, pp. 1527–1537

Abstract

Performance is typically superior with modality-compatible stimulus-response sets (e.g., responding vocally to auditory stimuli and manually to visual stimuli) than with modality-incompatible sets (e.g., responding vocally to visual stimuli and manually to auditory stimuli). Here we studied the information-processing stage at which these modality compatibility effects arise. In three experiments using a dual-task setup, we demonstrated that these compatibility effects arose (at least partly) prior to a capacity-limited central stage that is commonly believed to be the origin of dual-task costs. We suggest that demands to employ a specific effector system bias perceptual processing toward effector-compatible stimulus modalities. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).

Authors 3

1. Robert Wirth

   University of Würzburg

   Affiliation as printed

   Department of Psychology, Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg

2. Iring Koch Aachen

   RWTH Aachen University

   Affiliation as printed

   RWTH Aachen University

3. Wilfried Kunde

   University of Würzburg

   Affiliation as printed

   Department of Psychology, Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg