Citation

Kinder A, Rolfs M, Kliegl R. Q. J. Exp. Psychol. (2006) 2008; 61(2): 203-209.

Affiliation

Department of Psychology, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany. kinder@rz.uni-potsdam.de

Copyright

(Copyright © 2008, SAGE Publications)

DOI

10.1080/17470210701557555

PMID

17886161

Abstract

We propose a new version of the serial reaction time (SRT) task in which participants merely looked at the target instead of responding manually. As response locations were identical to target locations, stimulus-response compatibility was maximal in this task. We demonstrated that saccadic response times decreased during training and increased again when a new sequence was presented. It is unlikely that this effect was caused by stimulus-response (S-R) learning because bonds between (visual) stimuli and (oculomotor) responses were already well established before the experiment started. Thus, the finding shows that the building of S-R bonds is not essential for learning in the SRT task.

Language: en