The Space-Time Congruency Effect: A Meta-Analysis
The Space-Time Congruency Effect: A Meta-Analysis
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DOI：
10.1111/cogs.12709
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发表时间：
2019-01-01
影响因子：
2.5
通讯作者：
Ulrich, Rolf
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作者：
von Sobbe, Linda;Scheifele, Edith;Ulrich, Rolf
一些反应时间（RT）的研究报告更快的反应时，时间信息的反应安排在空间一致的方式比当这种安排是不一致的。由此产生的时空一致性效应通常归因于沿着心理时间轴的时间信息的文化显著定位（例如，从左到右的心理时间轴）。本研究的目的是提供一个汇编的RT研究的时间-空间的关联，以估计其影响的大小和潜在的出版物在这一领域的研究偏见的程度。在这个元分析中，三种类型的任务是区分由于迄今为止现有的实证研究结果。这些发现表明，时间与实验任务的相关程度对心理时间轴是否被激活有系统的影响。该荟萃分析的结果证实了这些考虑：首先，使时间成为任务相关维度的实验的平均效应大小为d = 0.46。第二，在时间与任务无关的实验中，效应量并不显著偏离零。第三，时间启动研究有一个令人惊讶的高平均效应量的d = 0.47，然而，由于出版物的偏见，应调整为d = 0.36。
Several reaction time (RT) studies report faster responses when responses to temporal information are arranged in a spatially congruent manner than when this arrangement is incongruent. The resulting space-time congruency effect is commonly attributed to a culturally salient localization of temporal information along a mental timeline (e.g., a mental timeline that runs from left to right). The present study aims to provide a compilation of the published RT studies on this time-space association in order to estimate the size of its effect and the extent of potential publication bias in this field of research. In this meta-analysis, three types of task are distinguished due to hitherto existing empirical findings. These findings suggest that the extent to which time is made relevant to the experimental task has a systematic impact on whether or not the mental timeline is activated. The results of this meta-analysis corroborate these considerations: First, experiments that make time a task-relevant dimension have a mean effect size of d = 0.46. Second, in experiments in which time is task irrelevant, the effect size does not significantly deviate from zero. Third, temporal priming studies have a surprisingly high mean effect size of d = 0.47, which, however, should be adjusted to d = 0.36 due to publication bias.