Citation

Frings C, Rothermund K, Wentura D. Q. J. Exp. Psychol. (2006) 2007; 60(10): 1367-1377.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2007, SAGE Publications)

DOI

10.1080/17470210600955645

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Response retrieval theories assume that stimuli and responses become integrated into "event files" (Hommel, 1998) in memory so that a second encounter with a specific stimulus automatically retrieves the response that was previously associated with this stimulus. In this article, we tested a specific prediction of a recent variant of stimulus retrieval theories as introduced by Rothermund, Wentura, and De Houwer (2005): In selection tasks where target stimuli are accompanied by distractors, responses to target stimuli are automatically bound to distractor stimuli as well; repeating the distractor should retrieve the response to the target that formerly accompanied the distractor. In three experiments we confirmed this prediction: Distractor repetition facilitated responding in the probe in the case of response repetition whereas repeating the distractor delayed responding in the case of response change.

Language: en