Temporal stimulus-response compatibility

The study of element-level stimulus-response compatibility (SRC) has predom inantly focused on spatial and symbolic relationships and has involved meas ures of response time and (dichotomous) error rate. This article explores a new form of SRC that is observed when duration is the relevant feature of both the stimulus and the response, using a more extensive analysis of perf ormance accuracy and variability. The results indicate that element-level S RC generalizes to situations involving time as the relevant dimension of st imuli and responses. Evidence of this was found in all of the extracted mea sures of performance; however, temporal SRC was shown to have independent e ffects on when and how accurately a response was made. Implications for SRC research are discussed.