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Ss were instructed to judge the truth or falsity of displays, consisting of the words above or below and pictures of a small circle ABOVE or BELOW a reference square, and to report “No” for same displays and “Yes” for different displays. The asymmetry in reaction time for above displays vs below displays observed by Seymour (1969a, b) and Chase & Clark (1971) disappeared under these instructions. This result is discussed in relation to the Chase and Clark model for verification of spatial locations.
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This research was supported by Grant HR/178 7/1 from the Social Science Research Council of the United Kingdom. Thanks are due Jenny Greenhalgh for her assistance in obtaining and analyzing the data. This article is sponsored by George E. Briggs, who takes editorial responsibility for it.
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Seymour, P.H.K. Judgments of verticality and response availability. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 1, 196–198 (1973). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03334339
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