Abstract
We investigated the role of response mapping, or the effect of response representation, with the assumption that visual processing needs not only a stimulus representation but also a response representation. The participants were required to react to both the prime and the probe displays with a Go/No-Go response. We examined response repetition which facilitated performance and task switching which caused a cost in performance. The main result indicated that a response for the prime display inhibited a response to the target for the probe display. This suggests that the response mapping affected a response to the target even when participants gave only a response representation without a translating action or motor response.
