The social or joint Simon effect has been developed to investigate how and to what extent
people mentally represent their own and other persons' action/task and how these cognitive …

Humans are ultrasocial, yet, theories of cognition have often been occupied with the solitary
mind. Over the past decade, an increasing volume of work has revealed how individual …

The nativist view of mentalizing—the view that humans have an inherent capacity to think
about the mental states of others—has been recently reinvigorated by reports that adults and …

Recently, there have been a number of advances in technology, including in mobile devices,
globalization of companies, display technologies and healthcare, all of which require …

An association of numbers and space (SNARC effect) has been examined in an ever
growing literature. In the present quantitative meta-analysis, 46 studies with a total of 106 …

Understanding of the factors that influence stimulus-response (SR) compatibility and
determine when and how compatibility effects will arise is a necessary foundation for …

Affective-mapping effects between affective stimuli and lever movements are critically
dependent upon the evaluative meaning of the response labels that are used in the task …

The joint go-nogo Simon effect (social Simon effect, or joint cSE) has been considered as an
index of automatic action/task co-representation. Recent findings, however, challenge …

Emotional faces communicate both the emotional state and behavioral intentions of an
individual. They also activate behavioral tendencies in the perceiver, namely approach or …

In the standard Simon task, participants carry out spatially defined responses to non-spatial
stimulus attributes. Responses are typically faster when stimulus location and response …