Tang Xiaoyu, Zhang Xi, Wang Tingting, Yu Hongtao, Wang Aijun, Zhang Ming
School of Psychology, Liaoning Collaborative Innovation Center of Children and Adolescents Healthy Personality Assessment and Cultivation, Liaoning Normal University, Dalian, China.
Department of Psychology, Soochow University, Suzhou, China.
Front Psychol. 2024 Dec 18;15:1504068. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1504068. eCollection 2024.
The congruency sequence effect (CSE) refers to the reduction in the congruency effect in the current trial after an incongruent trial compared with a congruent trial. Although previous studies widely suggested that CSE was observed only in the modality repeat condition, few studies have reported that CSE could also appear in the modality switch condition. However, it remains unclear whether these conflicting findings were caused by partial repetition effects under modality transition conditions. To address this issue, Experiment 1 controlled for partial repetition effects by ensuring that the modality relationships in both the repetition and switch conditions were either fully congruent or incongruent. The results revealed significant CSE only under the modality repetition condition. In particular, a larger CSE was observed in visual-auditory (VA) repetition than in auditory-visual (AV) repetition, indicating that modality asymmetry might affect the CSE by inducing the priming effect. Thus, Experiment 2 concurrently presented visual and auditory stimuli to eliminate priming effects and further validated CSE differences between auditory and visual modalities. The results revealed that the CSE was significantly greater under the VA condition than under the AV condition and confirmed that the visual modality played a dominant role in the CSE, as visual information is prioritized in processing and ultimately reduces the congruency effect in the next trial. Overall, the present study provides evidence for the specificity of CSE under modality repetition conditions by excluding partial repetition effects and further underscores the critical role of visual dominance in cross-modal CSE.
一致性序列效应（CSE）是指与一致性试次相比，在不一致试次之后的当前试次中，一致性效应的降低。尽管先前的研究广泛表明，仅在模态重复条件下观察到CSE，但很少有研究报告CSE也可能出现在模态转换条件下。然而，这些相互矛盾的发现是否是由模态转换条件下的部分重复效应引起的，仍不清楚。为了解决这个问题，实验1通过确保重复条件和转换条件下的模态关系要么完全一致，要么完全不一致，来控制部分重复效应。结果显示，仅在模态重复条件下存在显著的CSE。特别是，在视觉-听觉（VA）重复中观察到的CSE比在听觉-视觉（AV）重复中更大，这表明模态不对称可能通过引发启动效应来影响CSE。因此，实验2同时呈现视觉和听觉刺激以消除启动效应，并进一步验证了听觉和视觉模态之间的CSE差异。结果显示，VA条件下的CSE显著大于AV条件下的CSE，并证实视觉模态在CSE中起主导作用，因为视觉信息在处理中具有优先性，并最终降低了下一试次中的一致性效应。总体而言，本研究通过排除部分重复效应，为模态重复条件下CSE的特异性提供了证据，并进一步强调了视觉优势在跨模态CSE中的关键作用。
