Miller Jeff, Atkins Stephen G, Van Nes Fenna
Department of Psychology, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.
Psychon Bull Rev. 2005 Apr;12(2):265-70. doi: 10.3758/bf03196370.
Four choice reaction time experiments documented a stimulus-response (S-R) compatibility effect involving the numbers of stimuli and responses. In Experiment 1, the stimulus consisted of one or two tones, and the correct response was either one or two taps of a response key. Responses were much faster with a compatible S-R assignment, in which the number of taps matched the number of tones, than with an incompatible assignment in which these numbers mismatched. Experiments 2 and 3 replicated this effect, using visual stimuli and bimodal stimuli, respectively, suggesting that auditory/manual rhythmic compatibility is not essential to it. Experiment 4 showed that an analogous but smaller effect is obtained when stimuli are the digits 1 and 2. This new numerosity-based compatibility effect has general theoretical implications regarding the mechanisms responsible for compatibility effects and practical implications for interface design.
四项选择反应时实验记录了一种涉及刺激和反应数量的刺激-反应（S-R）兼容性效应。在实验1中，刺激由一个或两个音调组成，正确反应是对反应键进行一次或两次敲击。当刺激-反应配对兼容时（即敲击次数与音调数量匹配），反应速度比不兼容配对（即这些数量不匹配）时快得多。实验2和3分别使用视觉刺激和双峰刺激重复了这一效应，表明听觉/手动节奏兼容性对其并非必不可少。实验4表明，当刺激为数字1和2时，会获得类似但较小的效应。这种基于数量的新兼容性效应在兼容性效应的机制方面具有一般理论意义，在界面设计方面具有实际意义。
