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THE concept of stimulus-response (S-R) compatibility has been used mainly in the area of sensory-motor skills, where it was developed to explain why certain S-R pairs, said to conform to a population stereotype, were more easily learned than others1,2.
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BADDELEY, A. Stimulus-Response Compatibility in the Paired-Associate Learning of Nonsense Syllables. Nature 191, 1327–1328 (1961). https://doi.org/10.1038/1911327a0
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