Wang Qiangqiang, Nie Tingting, Zhang Weixia, Shi Wendian
Department of Psychology, School of Education, Shanghai Normal University, China.
Iperception. 2019 Apr 4;10(2):2041669519841071. doi: 10.1177/2041669519841071. eCollection 2019 Mar-Apr.
The ordinal position effect posits that items positioned earlier in an ordinal sequence are responded to faster with the left key than the right key, and items positioned later in an ordinal sequence are responded to faster with the right key than the left key. Although the mechanism of the ordinal position effect has been investigated in many studies, it is unclear whether the ordinal position effect can extend to the auditory modality and the hands crossed context. Therefore, the present study employed days as the order information to investigate this question. Days were visually or acoustically displayed on a screen in random order, and participants were instructed to judge whether the probe day they perceived was before or after the current day (days-relevant task) or to identify the color or voice of the probe day they perceived (days-irrelevant task). The results indicate the following: (a) The days before the current day were responded to faster with the left key than the right key, and the days after the current day were responded to faster with the right key than the left key, both when the days-relevant task and the days-irrelevant task were performed, regardless of the sense modality. (b) The ordinal position effect for judgments of days was also obtained in the auditory modality even when the hands were crossed. These results indicate that the ordinal position effect can extend to the auditory modality and the hands crossed context, similar to the spatial-numerical association of response codes effect of numbers.
顺序位置效应假定，在顺序序列中位置靠前的项目，用左键响应的速度比用右键更快；而在顺序序列中位置靠后的项目，用右键响应的速度比用左键更快。尽管在许多研究中已经对顺序位置效应的机制进行了探究，但尚不清楚顺序位置效应是否能扩展到听觉模态以及双手交叉的情境中。因此，本研究采用日期作为顺序信息来探究这个问题。日期以随机顺序在屏幕上视觉或听觉呈现，参与者被要求判断他们感知到的探测日期是在当前日期之前还是之后（与日期相关的任务），或者识别他们感知到的探测日期的颜色或声音（与日期无关的任务）。结果表明：（a）无论是执行与日期相关的任务还是与日期无关的任务，无论感觉模态如何，当前日期之前的日期用左键响应的速度比用右键更快，当前日期之后的日期用右键响应的速度比用左键更快。（b）即使双手交叉，在听觉模态中对日期的判断也能获得顺序位置效应。这些结果表明，顺序位置效应可以扩展到听觉模态和双手交叉的情境中，类似于数字的空间 - 数字反应编码效应。
