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

Robert Wirth1, Roland Pfister2, Janina Brandes3

  • 1Department of Psychology, Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany. robert.wirth@uni-wuerzburg.de.

Attention, Perception & Psychophysics
|June 9, 2016
PubMed
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Anticipating tactile sensations from our own actions influences behavior when relevant. This research shows body-related action effects control our actions similarly to environmental effects.

Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Neuroscience
  • Action Control

Background:

  • Ideomotor effect research primarily examines environmental action consequences.
  • Body-related action effects on action control remain under-explored.

Purpose of the Study:

  • Investigate the impact of tactile action effects on action selection, initiation, and execution.
  • Determine if body-related action effects influence action control similarly to environmental effects.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized the response-effect compatibility paradigm.
  • Conducted experiments manipulating the task-relevance of tactile action effects.
  • Analyzed the temporal dynamics of tactile effect anticipation.

Main Results:

Keywords:
Action controlBody-related feedbackEffect anticipationsIdeomotor theory

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  • Task-relevant tactile action effects significantly impacted action control.
  • Task-irrelevant tactile action effects showed no significant impact.
  • Anticipation of tactile effects followed the same time course as environmental effects.

Conclusions:

  • Body-related action effects, when task-relevant, influence action control.
  • Findings support the functional equivalence of all action effect types in action control.