Authors:Bernie Caessens, Wim Notebaert, Boris Burle, Eric Soe
Publisher: Psychology Press
Keywords: european, cognitive, journal, psychology, special, issue, tasks, congruency, control, involuntary, automatic, processing, spatial, voluntary
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2008-07-25
List price: $62.95
ISBN-10: 1841699977
ISBN-13: 9781841699974

This special issue of the European Journal of Cognitive Psychology focuses on spatial congruency effects. The dominant view that has emerged after 50 years of research on this topic is that an automatic route processes task-irrelevant spatial information, while another, controlled, route supports rule-based response activation. However, in line with recent literature, this issue reports studies that show that what has been considered automatic, is in fact subject to various control processes. Consequently, in order to account successfully for congruency effects, dual-route models should be ada