The phrase "a consistency effect" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to psychology, research, or any field discussing the impact of consistent variables on outcomes.
Example: "The study revealed a consistency effect, where participants performed better when the conditions remained stable throughout the experiment."
Alternatives: "a uniformity effect" or "a reliability effect".
For instance, they could be holistically represented in lexico-semantic memory, but only processed separately at a peripheral production stage, and there lead to a consistency effect.
If the hypothesis of an involvement of lexico-semantic representations in the consistency effect is correct, then a consistency effect should also be observed in a task without any verbal output.
Most importantly, we also obtained an interaction between relatedness and consistency (F (1; 23) = 9.69; MSe = 995.733; p <.01): While there was a consistency effect of 34 ms in the related conditions (t (23) = 3.23; p <.01), we found no such consistency effect (-6 ms) for unrelated trials (t (23) = 0.86; p =.40).
Interestingly, an effect similar to the consistency effect is observed in a formally similar psycholinguistic task – lexical decision.
That is, not finding an effect for clinically relevant variables does not imply a consistency of effect across variable that have a strong reason for being important [ 20].
However, there is an alternative to a lexico-semantic locus of the consistency effect: One could presume that, on the one hand, differences in response selection cause the consistency effect in the production task and that, on the other, differences in encoding cause the consistency effect in the verification task.
We demonstrated for the first time the consistency effect in a product verification task.
Behaviorally, we will try to establish the consistency effect in a task which does not include any overt verbal response – product verification.
Different from the relatedness effect, which is based on familiarity with certain numbers as possible results within certain multiplication rows, the consistency effect relies on a specific relation between the correct result and its incorrect alternative.
Therefore, a central lexico-semantic' locus of the consistency effect is clearly supported by our ERP data.
MNG induction was rapid (within 6 hr of exposure), with a consistency of effect across various doses and multiple days.
