Through the portal: Effect anticipation in the central bottleneck

Wirth, Robert; Pfister, Roland; Janczyk, Markus; Kunde, Wilfried

doi:10.1016/j.actpsy.2015.07.007

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“…On a theoretical level, we therefore do not draw a strong distinction between the study of transformed and untransformed movements and the study of other task-relevant action effects that are either incompatible or compatible with the corresponding actions. This reasoning is further corroborated by empirical findings on the locus of either tool transformation effects or R-E compatibility effects in stages of information processing Paelecke & Kunde, 2007;Wirth et al, 2015). Using the psychological refractory period paradigm, these studies suggest that tool transformation effects and R-E compatibility effects share at least one common processing stage, which is typically interpreted as subserving response selection.…”

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“…Consequently, delays in action planning that affect the RT might also affect the duration of action execution (e.g., Adam et al, 2000). Corresponding findings have recently been reported for the anticipation of environment-related action effects (Pfister, Janczyk, Wirth, Dignath, & Kunde, 2014;Wirth, Pfister, Janczyk, & Kunde, 2015). Here, participants had to move a mouse cursor on a screen to either the left or the right to produce an action effect that could either be compatible (on the side toward which the cursor was moved) or incompatible (opposite the cursor's movement).…”

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“…The MT analysis further indicated that the compatibility manipulation also affected movement execution (for converging evidence, see Pfister, Janczyk, Wirth, et al, 2014;Wirth et al, 2015). The interaction between R-E compatibility and distribution quintile, which emerged for all measures, demonstrated that compatibility effects are especially strong for slow responses.…”

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confidence: 96%

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Stroking me softly: Body-related effects in effect-based action control

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Empirical investigations of ideomotor effect anticipations have mainly focused on action effects in the environment. By contrast, action effects that apply to the agent's body have rarely been put to the test in corresponding experimental paradigms. We present a series of experiments using the response-effect compatibility paradigm, in which we studied the impacts of to-be-produced tactile action effects on action selection, initiation, and execution. The results showed a robust and reliable impact if these tactile action effects were rendered task-relevant (Exp. 1), but not when they were task-irrelevant (Exps. 2a and 2b). We further showed that anticipations of tactile action effects follow the same time course as anticipations of environment-related effects (Exps. 3 and 4). These findings demonstrate that body-related action effects affect action control much as environment-related effects do, and therefore support the theoretical assumption of the functional equivalence of all types of action effects.

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“…Some researchers have investigated the impact of a temporal delay between response and the occurrence of action effects (Dignath, Pfister, Eder, Kiesel, & Kunde, 2014;Wirth et al, 2015). These studies showed that RTs are longer when the effect occurs after a long interval than when it occurs after a short interval.…”

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“…Twenty-six of the participants were right-handed. In the absence of prior work with multiple action effects, the sample size was based on a consideration of the prior work, in which smaller samples seem more common (e.g., Kunde, 2001;Wirth, Pfister, Janczyk, & Kunde, 2015).…”

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Action selection by temporally distal goal states

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In line with ideomotor theory, numerous responseeffect compatibility (REC) studies have revealed evidence that action effects are anticipated prior to action initiation, as indicated by an REC effect: For example, a response is given faster when its effect occurs on the same rather than on the opposite side. So far, REC studies have only investigated immediate effects-that is, effects occurring immediately after the response is given. However, it may be argued that in everyday life many actions cause effects that do not occur immediately. Additionally, because actions can have more than one effect, desired effects occurring in the future may only be arrived at if fundamental effects are achieved first. In the present study, we investigated whether temporally more distal effects are anticipated in order to initiate actions, and how multiple, serially occurring effects are represented. To this end, a spatial REC paradigm was extended in such a way that a first, immediate effect (i.e., immediately following the response; E1) was followed 500 ms later by another visual effect (E2). An REC effect was only observed for the temporally more distal E2, and this result suggests that temporally more distal effects can also be anticipated during action selection.

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Pushing the rules: effects and aftereffects of deliberate rule violations

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Foerster

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Most of our daily life is organized around rules and social norms. But what makes rules so special? And what if one were to break a rule intentionally? Can we simply free us from the present set of rules or do we automatically adhere to them? How do rule violations influence subsequent behavior? To investigate the effects and aftereffects of violating simple S-R rule, we conducted three experiments that investigated continuous finger-tracking responses on an iPad. Our experiments show that rule violations are distinct from rule-based actions in both response times and movement trajectories, they take longer to initiate and execute, and their movement trajectory is heavily contorted. Data not only show differences between the two types of response (rule-based vs. violation), but also yielded a characteristic pattern of aftereffects in case of rule violations: rule violations do not trigger adaptation effects that render further rule violations less difficult, but every rule violation poses repeated effort on the agent. The study represents a first step towards understanding the signature and underlying mechanisms of deliberate rule violations, they cannot be acted out by themselves, but require the activation of the original rule first. Consequently, they are best understood as reformulations of existing rules that are not accessible on their own, but need to be constantly derived from the original rule, with an add-on that might entail an active tendency to steer away from mental representations that reflect (socially) unwanted behavior.

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Through the portal: Effect anticipation in the central bottleneck

Cited by 45 publications

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Stroking me softly: Body-related effects in effect-based action control

Stroking me softly: Body-related effects in effect-based action control

Action selection by temporally distal goal states

Pushing the rules: effects and aftereffects of deliberate rule violations

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