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Two experiments were performed to replicate the results of Ilan and Miller that response selection but no response-hand specific preparation is present during memory scanning. Letter-case determined which hand would respond, while memory set membership status determined whether the response was to be executed (go) or withheld (nogo). In Exp. 1, the LRP was observed as an index of response-hand specific preparation. In Exp. 2, the consistency effect derived from the response priming paradigm was observed as an index of more central response selection. The results replicate those of Ilan and Miller and suggest that central response selection is present during short-term memory scanning, but hand-specific response preparation is absent. Apparently, preliminary information is transmitted to the response selection stage during memory scanning, a finding that is inconsistent with serial stage models, but memory scanning interferes with hand-specific response preparation.
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Received: 30 March 1998 / Accepted: 30 November 1998
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Heil, M., Hennighausen, E. & Özcan, M. Central response selection is present during memory scanning, but hand-specific response preparation is absent. Psychological Research Psychologische Forschung 62, 289–299 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/s004260050059
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s004260050059