Attending Behavior Examined Through Identity Matching and Sorting Tasks

The present experiment employed compound stimuli to investigate variables influencing attending behavior. Chinese characters with the radical or without the radical were used as compound stimuli. The presented as a matching-to-sample task. Participants were randomly assigned to two different groups. Both groups were exposed to pre-sorting of stimuli with and without the radical and MTS training including stimuli with the radical. Group 1 had two sorting test of stimuli with and without the radical, followed by MTS testing including stimuli with the radical and post-sorting of stimuli with and without the radical. Group 2 had MTS testing including stimuli with the radical, two sorting tests of stimuli with and without the radical, followed by post-sorting of stimuli with and without the radical.