Traditional approaches to human information processing tend to deal with perception and
action planning in isolation, so that an adequate account of the perception-action interface is …

Abstract “Automatic imitation” is a type of stimulus-response compatibility effect in which the
topographical features of task-irrelevant action stimuli facilitate similar, and interfere with …

Proficient bilinguals use two languages actively, but the contexts in which they do so may
differ dramatically. The present study asked what consequences the contexts of language …

The dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) and associated regions of the medial frontal wall
have often been hypothesized to play an important role in cognitive control. We have …

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effect of irrelevant location information on
performance of visual choice-reaction tasks. We review empirical findings and theoretical …

On its 43rd anniversary the Simon effect can look back at a long and varied history. First
treated as a curious observation with implications for human factors research, it slowly …

An elaborated diffusion process model (a Diffusion Model for Conflict Tasks, DMC) is
introduced that combines conceptual features of standard diffusion models with the notion of …

A theory of executive control is presented that proposes that executive processes control
subordinate processes by manipulating their parameters, reconfiguring them to respond in …

If many changes are necessary to improve the quality of neuroscience research, one
relatively simple step could have great pay‐offs: to promote the adoption of detailed …

Recent studies have shown that the effects of irrelevant spatial stimulus-response (SR)
correspondence (ie, the Simon effect) occur only after trials in which the stimulus and …