School of Psychology, Jiangxi Normal University, Nanchang, 330022, Jiangxi, China.
CAS Key Laboratory of Behavioral Science, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 16 Lincui Road, Beijing, 100101, China.
Psychon Bull Rev. 2021 Jun;28(3):853-861. doi: 10.3758/s13423-020-01860-2. Epub 2021 Jan 19.
Visual processing near the hands is altered compared with stimuli far from the hands. Here, we aimed to test whether this alteration can be found in auditory processing. Participants were required to perform an auditory Simon task either with their hands close to the loudspeakers or far from the loudspeakers. Two experiments consistently showed that the auditory Simon effect was enhanced when the hands were close to the speakers compared with far from the speakers. This is consistent with previous findings of an enhanced visual Simon effect near the hands. Furthermore, the hand-proximity effects in auditory and visual Simon tasks (an enhanced Simon effect near hands compared with far from hands) were comparable, indicating hand-proximity effect is reliable across visual and auditory modalities. Thus, the present study extended the hand-proximity effect from vision to audition by showing that the auditory Simon effect was enhanced near the hands compared with far from the hands.
与远离手部的刺激相比，手部附近的视觉处理会发生改变。在这里，我们旨在测试这种改变是否可以在听觉处理中找到。参与者被要求在他们的手靠近扬声器或远离扬声器的情况下执行听觉 Simon 任务。两项实验一致表明，与远离扬声器相比，当手靠近扬声器时，听觉 Simon 效应增强。这与先前在手附近发现的增强的视觉 Simon 效应的发现一致。此外，听觉和视觉 Simon 任务中的手接近效应（与远离手相比，手附近的 Simon 效应增强）相当，表明手接近效应在视觉和听觉模态中是可靠的。因此，本研究通过显示与远离手部相比，手部附近的听觉 Simon 效应增强，将手接近效应从视觉扩展到听觉。
