Task relevance determines binding of effect features in action planning

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  • 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 featureAction 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.show moreshow less

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Author: Viola MockeORCiD, Lisa Weller, Christian Frings, Klaus Rothermund, Wilfried Kunde
URN:urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-231906
Document Type:Journal article
Faculties:Fakultät für Humanwissenschaften (Philos., Psycho., Erziehungs- u. Gesell.-Wissensch.) / Institut für Psychologie
Language:English
Parent Title (English):Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics
ISSN:1943-3921
Year of Completion:2020
Volume:82
Pagenumber:3811–3831
Source:Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics (2020) 82:3811–3831. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-020-02123-x
DOI:https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-020-02123-x
Dewey Decimal Classification:1 Philosophie und Psychologie / 15 Psychologie / 150 Psychologie
Tag:action planning; binding; effect anticipations; motor control
Release Date:2021/05/18
Licence (German):License LogoCC BY: Creative-Commons-Lizenz: Namensnennung 4.0 International