TY  - JOUR
A1  - Schroeder, Philipp A.
A1  - Pfister, Roland
T1  - Arbitrary numbers counter fair decisions: trails of markedness in card distribution
JF  - Frontiers in Psychology
N2  - Converging evidence from controlled experiments suggests that the mere processing of a number and its attributes such as value or parity might affect free choice decisions between different actions. For example the spatial numerical associations of response codes (SNARC) effect indicates the magnitude of a digit to be associated with a spatial representation and might therefore affect spatial response choices (i.e., decisions between a "left" and a "right" option). At the same time, other (linguistic) features of a number such as parity are embedded into space and might likewise prime left or right responses through feature words [odd or even, respectively; markedness association of response codes (MARC) effect]. In this experiment we aimed at documenting such influences in a natural setting. We therefore assessed number space and parity space association effects by exposing participants to a fair distribution task in a card playing scenario. Participants drew cards, read out loud their number values, and announced their response choice, i.e., dealing it to a left vs. right player, indicated by Playmobil characters. Not only did participants prefer to deal more cards to the right player, the card's digits also affected response choices and led to a slightly but systematically unfair distribution, supported by a regular SNARC effect and counteracted by a reversed MARC effect. The experiment demonstrates the impact of SNARC- and MARC-like biases in free choice behavior through verbal and visual numerical information processing even in a setting with high external validity.
KW  - SNARC
KW  - right-oriented bias
KW  - space
KW  - habits
KW  - and justice for all
KW  - magnitude
KW  - line
KW  - SNARC effect
KW  - MARC effect
KW  - spatial numerical associations
KW  - mental representation
KW  - classification
KW  - asymmetry
KW  - embodied cognition
KW  - numerical cognition
KW  - linguistic markedness
KW  - free choice
Y1  - 2015
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-143481
VL  - 6
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Huestegge, Lynn
A1  - Herbort, Oliver
A1  - Gosch, Nora
A1  - Kunde, Wilfried
A1  - Pieczykolan, Aleks
T1  - Free-choice saccades and their underlying determinants: explorations of high-level voluntary oculomotor control
JF  - Journal of Vision
N2  - Models of eye-movement control distinguish between different control levels, ranging from automatic (bottom-up, stimulus-driven selection) and automatized (based on well-learned routines) to voluntary (top-down, goal-driven selection, e.g., based on instructions). However, one type of voluntary control has yet only been examined in the manual and not in the oculomotor domain, namely free-choice selection among arbitrary targets, that is, targets that are of equal interest from both a bottom-up and top-down processing perspective. Here, we ask which features of targets (identity- or location-related) are used to determine such oculomotor free-choice behavior. In two experiments, participants executed a saccade to one of four peripheral targets in three different choice conditions: unconstrained free choice, constrained free choice based on target identity (color), and constrained free choice based on target location. The analysis of choice frequencies revealed that unconstrained free-choice selection closely resembled constrained choice based on target location. The results suggest that free-choice oculomotor control is mainly guided by spatial (location-based) target characteristics. We explain these results by assuming that participants tend to avoid less parsimonious recoding of target-identity representations into spatial codes, the latter being a necessary prerequisite to configure oculomotor commands.
KW  - Adolescent
KW  - Stimulation
KW  - Adult
KW  - Eye Movements/physiology
KW  - Female
KW  - Humans
KW  - Learning/physiology
KW  - Male
KW  - Oculomotor Muscles/physiology
KW  - Photic
KW  - Choice Behavior/physiology
KW  - Psychomotor Performance/physiology
KW  - Saccades/physiology
KW  - Young Adult
KW  - eye movement
KW  - saccades
KW  - free choice
KW  - top-down processing
KW  - bottom-up processing
KW  - control levels
Y1  - 2019
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-201493
VL  - 19
IS  - 3
ER  -