What Does Response Selection Select in Skilled Typewriting?

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Motonori Yamaguchi ◽  
Gordon D. Logan ◽  
Vanessa Li
Keyword(s):  
Response Selection

Faster Choice-Reaction Times to Positive than to Negative Facial Expressions

2003 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 113-123 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jukka M. Leppänen ◽  
Mirja Tenhunen ◽  
Jari K. Hietanen
Keyword(s):  
Facial Expressions ◽  
Cognitive Processing ◽  
Response Selection ◽  
Reaction Times ◽  
Happy Face ◽  
Response Onset ◽  
Response Execution ◽  
Onset Response ◽  
Positive Stimuli ◽  
Choice Reaction Times

Abstract Several studies have shown faster choice-reaction times to positive than to negative facial expressions. The present study examined whether this effect is exclusively due to faster cognitive processing of positive stimuli (i.e., processes leading up to, and including, response selection), or whether it also involves faster motor execution of the selected response. In two experiments, response selection (onset of the lateralized readiness potential, LRP) and response execution (LRP onset-response onset) times for positive (happy) and negative (disgusted/angry) faces were examined. Shorter response selection times for positive than for negative faces were found in both experiments but there was no difference in response execution times. Together, these results suggest that the happy-face advantage occurs primarily at premotoric processing stages. Implications that the happy-face advantage may reflect an interaction between emotional and cognitive factors are discussed.

Electrophysiological correlates of parallel response selection in dual-task performance

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandra J. Thomson ◽  
Matthew T. Mazurek ◽  
Judith M. Shedden ◽  
Scott Watter
Keyword(s):  
Task Performance ◽  
Dual Task ◽  
Response Selection ◽  
Dual Task Performance
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