TY - JOUR PY - 2011// TI - Attention and spatial stimulus coding in the Simon task: A rejoinder to van der Lubbe and Abrahamse (2010) JO - Acta psychologica A1 - Hommel, Bernhard SP - 265 EP - 268 VL - 136 IS - 2 N2 - Hommel (this issue) has reviewed the major lines of research and ongoing controversies on and around the Simon effect. Van der Lubbe and Abrahamse (2010) take issue with Hommel's assessment of the role of attention shifting in the Simon effect. This rejoinder argues that van der Lubbe and Abrahamse's criticism is off target because it (a) fails to distinguish between the attention-shifting account of (spatial stimulus coding in) the Simon effect-which Hommel discusses and criticizes-and the premotor theory of attention-which Hommel does not discuss; (b) confuses the relationship between the attention-shifting account and the referential-coding account of spatial stimulus coding in the Simon effect-the actual topic of Hommel's discussion-with the relationship between the premotor theory and the theory of event coding-which the criticism focuses on; and (c) confuses the uncontroversial role of attention in stimulus selection with the controversial role of attention in the generation of location codes.

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LA - en SN - 0001-6918 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2010.10.002 ID - ref1 ER -