Department of Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, University of Trier, 54286, Trier, Germany.
Psychol Res. 2021 Sep;85(6):2249-2255. doi: 10.1007/s00426-020-01413-1. Epub 2020 Sep 7.
Bindings between stimulus- and response features have received increasing attention in recent research and theorizing regarding human action control. Apparently, very simple mechanisms that lead to feature binding and retrieval of recently integrated features have an important influence on planning and execution of actions. Regarding the importance of these mechanisms, it seems to be reasonable to test whether they can be measured outside of a formal laboratory situation. Here we ran an online version of the distractor-response binding task reaching participants via crowdsourcing. Distractor-response binding effects were significant in this setup showing that basic mechanisms of feature binding and retrieval indeed influence human action in less formal situations. Besides arguing for the generality and robustness of the effect practical implications are discussed.
在最近关于人类动作控制的研究和理论中，刺激和反应特征之间的结合受到了越来越多的关注。显然，导致特征绑定和最近整合特征检索的非常简单的机制对动作的计划和执行有重要影响。鉴于这些机制的重要性，似乎有理由测试它们是否可以在正式的实验室环境之外进行测量。在这里，我们通过众包向参与者运行了分心-反应绑定任务的在线版本。在这种设置中，分心-反应绑定效应是显著的，这表明基本的特征绑定和检索机制确实会在不太正式的情况下影响人类的行为。除了论证该效应的普遍性和稳健性外，还讨论了其实用意义。
