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ideomotor compatibility

the extent to which stimuli resemble the sensory feedback from their assigned responses. For example, if the stimulus is the speech sound [a] and the response is to say the letter aloud, stimulus and response have high ideomotor compatibility. Ideomotor compatibility minimizes the difficulty of response selection.

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