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From simple to complex actions: Response-response bindings as a new approach to action sequences
Birte Moeller1, Christian Frings1
1Institut fur Psychologie.
Journal of Experimental Psychology. General
|September 14, 2018
Summary
This study reveals that responses can form bindings, similar to stimulus-response connections. This finding suggests response-response bindings are crucial for human action control and representation.
Area of Science:
- Cognitive Psychology
- Neuroscience
- Human Action Control
Background:
- Existing research focuses on stimulus-stimulus and stimulus-response bindings in action control.
- The role of response-response bindings in action representation remains underexplored.
Purpose of the Study:
- To investigate the existence and implications of response-response bindings.
- To determine if separately planned responses can integrate and retrieve within event representations.
Main Methods:
- Developed a novel experimental design with sequential responses to Task A and Task B.
- Analyzed bindings between separately planned and executed responses across two experiments.
Main Results:
- Demonstrated retrieval of a Task B response following repetition of a Task A response.
- Provided the first empirical evidence for the integration of two distinct, planned responses.
Conclusions:
- Response-response bindings are a significant mechanism in human action control.
- Action representation involves higher-order integration of individual actions through binding.
- Binding is a more pervasive mechanism in action control than previously understood.
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