Examination of the influence of stimuli eccentricity on the inhibitory control in a simon task within virtual reality
Dan Bürger, Luisa Peintner, Florian Heilmann, Stefan Pastel, Kerstin Witte · 2025
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Dan Bürger and co-authors test whether stimuli far from center weaken the control needed to override automatic responses. Their 2025 study uses the Simon task inside virtual reality. In that task, a stimulus's place is irrelevant to the rule, yet a mismatch with the response side slows people down. The team showed red and green targets at three angles off center: twenty two, forty five, and sixty degrees.
Reaction times were compared for matching and mismatching trials at each angle. The Simon effect, the gap between the two, grew as targets moved outward. It grew because mismatching trials slowed much more than matching ones did. The authors read this as the location conflict intensifying with distance. They note lab limits, including that colors are hard to see in the far periphery. Sports and daily life often demand such peripheral responses, they add.
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| CREATOR | Dan Bürger, Luisa Peintner, Florian Heilmann, Stefan Pastel, Kerstin Witte |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 38 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |