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Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Neuroscience
  • Action Control

Background:

  • Event files link stimuli, responses, and action effects in action control.
  • Retrieval of previous event files influences current performance when features repeat.
  • The termination mechanism of event files remains unclear, with a common assumption being distal action effect registration.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the role of distal action effects in terminating event files.
  • To examine if semantically meaningful distal action effects modulate stimulus-response (S-R) binding.
  • To determine if action mode (intention-based vs. stimulus-based) influences the impact of distal action effects.

Main Methods:

  • Three experiments were conducted with a total of 181 participants.
  • Participants engaged in tasks involving semantically meaningful distal action effects (switching simulated light bulbs).
  • Standard stimulus-response (S-R) binding tasks were used to assess feature binding effects.

Main Results:

  • No significant impact of meaningful distal action effect presence or contingency on feature binding was observed.
  • Previous research also found no modulation of S-R binding effects by distal action-effect conditions.
  • The findings suggest that S-R binding tasks induce a stimulus-based action mode.

Conclusions:

  • Stimulus-response binding tasks appear to rely on proximal action effects for event file termination.
  • Distal action effects, even when meaningful, do not seem to terminate event files in these tasks.
  • This supports the idea that action mode influences how action effects are processed in event file dynamics.