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  - Eder, Andreas B.
A1  - Rothermund, Klaus
A1  - De Houwer, Jan
T1  - Affective Compatibility between Stimuli and Response Goals: A Primer for a New Implicit Measure of Attitudes
JF  - PLoS ONE
N2  - We examined whether a voluntary response becomes associated with the (affective) meaning of intended response effects. Four experiments revealed that coupling a keypress with positive or negative consequences produces affective compatibility effects when the keypress has to be executed in response to positively or negatively evaluated stimulus categories. In Experiment 1, positive words were evaluated faster with a keypress that turned the words ON (versus OFF), whereas negative words were evaluated faster with a keypress that turned the words OFF (versus ON). Experiment 2 showed that this compatibility effect is reversed if an aversive tone is turned ON and OFF with keypresses. Experiment 3 revealed that keypresses acquire an affective meaning even when the association between the responses and their effects is variable and intentionally reconfigured before each trial. Experiment 4 used affective response effects to assess implicit ingroup favoritism, showing that the measure is sensitive to the valence of categories and not to the valence of exemplars. Results support the hypothesis that behavioral reactions become associated with the affective meaning of the intended response goal, which has important implications for the understanding and construction of implicit attitude measures.
KW  - German people
KW  - reaction time
KW  - non-verbal communication
KW  - social psychology
KW  - cognitive psychology
KW  - hands
KW  - priming (psychology)
KW  - social research
Y1  - 2013
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-129872
VL  - 8
IS  - 11
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Eder, Andreas B.
A1  - Rothermund, Klaus
A1  - Hommel, Bernhard
T1  - Commentary: Contrasting motivational orientation and evaluative coding accounts: on the need to differentiate the effectors of approach/avoidance responses
JF  - Frontiers in Psychology
N2  - A commentary on "Contrasting motivational orientation and evaluative coding accounts: on the need to differentiate the effectors of approach/avoidance responses" by Kozlik, J., Neumann, R., and Lozo, L. (2015). Front. Psychol. 6:563. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00563
KW  - evaluative coding account
KW  - motivational systems
KW  - approach-avoidance
KW  - stimulus-response compatibility
KW  - Theory of Event Coding (TEC)
Y1  - 2016
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-190141
SN  - 1664-1078
VL  - 7
IS  - 163
ER  -