TY  - JOUR
A1  - Mocke, Viola
A1  - Weller, Lisa
A1  - Frings, Christian
A1  - Rothermund, Klaus
A1  - Kunde, Wilfried
T1  - Task relevance determines binding of effect features in action planning
JF  - Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics
N2  - Action planning can be construed as the temporary binding of features of perceptual action effects. While previous research demonstrated binding for task-relevant, body-related effect features, the role of task-irrelevant or environment-related effect features in action planning is less clear. Here, we studied whether task-relevance or body-relatedness determines feature binding in action planning. Participants planned an action A, but before executing it initiated an intermediate action B. Each action relied on a body-related effect feature (index vs. middle finger movement) and an environment-related effect feature (cursor movement towards vs. away from a reference object). In Experiments 1 and 2, both effects were task-relevant. Performance in action B suffered from partial feature overlap with action A compared to full feature repetition or alternation, which is in line with binding of both features while planning action A. Importantly, this cost disappeared when all features were available but only body-related features were task-relevant (Experiment 3). When only the environment-related effect of action A was known in advance, action B benefitted when it aimed at the same (vs. a different) environment-related effect (Experiment 4). Consequently, the present results support the idea that task relevance determines whether binding of body-related and environment-related effect features takes place while the pre-activation of environment-related features without binding them primes feature-overlapping actions.
KW  - action planning
KW  - motor control
KW  - binding
KW  - effect anticipations
Y1  - 2020
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-231906
SN  - 1943-3921
VL  - 82
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Janczyk, Markus
A1  - Heinemann, Alexander
A1  - Pfister, Roland
T1  - Instant attraction: Immediate action-effect bindings occur for both, stimulus- and goal-driven actions
N2  - Flexible behavior is only possible if contingencies between own actions and following environmental effects are acquired as quickly as possible; and recent findings indeed point toward an immediate formation of action-effect bindings already after a single coupling of an action and its effect. The present study explored whether these short-term bindings occur for both, stimulus- and goal-driven actions (“forced-choice actions” vs. “free-choice actions”). Two experiments confirmed that immediate action-effect bindings are formed for both types of actions and affect upcoming behavior. These findings support the view that action-effect binding is a ubiquitous phenomenon which occurs for any type of action.
KW  - Psychologie
KW  - ideomotor theory
KW  - action planning
KW  - free-choice
KW  - forced-choice
KW  - action-effects
KW  - binding
Y1  - 2012
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-76203
ER  -