Analyses of Response Time Data in the Same--Different Task.

The Same--Different task presents two stimuli in close succession and participants must indicate whether they are completely identical or if there are any attributes that differ. While the task is simple, its results have proven difficult to explain. Notably, response times are characterized by a fa...

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Publicado en:Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology / Revue Canadienne de Psychologie Expérimentale Vol. 77; no. 2; pp. 115 - 130
Autores principales: Cousineau, Denis, Harding, Bradley, Walker, Jesika A., Durand, Guillaume, T-Groulx, Julien, Lauzon, Sébastien, Goulet, Marc-André
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Publicado: Canadian Psychological Association Jun2023
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          Cousineau, Denis
          Harding, Bradley
          Walker, Jesika A.
          Durand, Guillaume
          T-Groulx, Julien
          Lauzon, Sébastien
          Goulet, Marc-André
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          École de psychologie, Université d'Ottawa
          École de psychologie, Université de Moncton
          École de counselling, de psychothérapie et de spiritualité, Université St-Paul
          Département de psychologie, Université du Québec à Montréal
          Department of psychology, University of Western Ontario
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        Task performance
        Psychology
        Cognitive processing speed
        Time
        Psychology of movement
        Conceptual models
        Reaction time
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          Task performance
          Psychology
          Cognitive processing speed
          Time
          Psychology of movement
          Conceptual models
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        distribution fitting
        ex-Gaussian
        response times
        same-different task
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        distribution fitting
        ex-Gaussian
        response times
        same-different task
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      ab: The Same--Different task presents two stimuli in close succession and participants must indicate whether they are completely identical or if there are any attributes that differ. While the task is simple, its results have proven difficult to explain. Notably, response times are characterized by a fast-same effect whereby Same responses are faster than Different responses even though identical stimuli should be exhaustively processed to be accurate. Herein, we examine a little more than a quarter million response times (N = 255,744) obtained from 327 participants who participated in one of 14 variants of the task involving minor changes in the stimuli or their durations. We performed distribution fitting and analyzed estimated parameters stemming from the ex-Gaussian, lognormal, and Weibull distributions to infer the cognitive processing characteristics underlying this task. The results exclude serial processing of the stimuli and do not support dual-route processing. The fast-same effect appears only through a shift of the entire response time distributions, a feature impossible to detect solely with mean response time analyses. An attention-modulated process driven by entropy may be the most adequate model of the fast-same effect.
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