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  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Human Motor Control

Background:

  • Efficient behavior generation from novel instructions is key for adaptation.
  • Novel instructed content is rapidly encoded into action-based formats for automatic processing.

Purpose of the Study:

  • Investigate the link between proceduralization and motor simulation.
  • Determine if covert motor response activation aids in forming action-based instruction representations.

Main Methods:

  • Concurrent finger-tapping task to block motor simulation during novel stimulus-response (S-R) association encoding.
  • Manipulation of response-level overlap between S-R mappings and the motor task.
  • Three online experiments and a control experiment.

Main Results:

  • Robust support for the hypothesis that motor simulation is involved in mapping implementation.
  • Overlapping motor task demands impaired mapping implementation.
  • No modulation of the overlapping effect by preparation demands or mapping novelty.
  • Control experiment ruled out fatigue and negative priming.

Conclusions:

  • Strong evidence for motor simulation involvement in anticipatory task reconfiguration.
  • Motor system's role in preparation is general, not exclusive to novel scenarios.
  • Findings integrate into broader models of anticipatory task control.