Hommel Bernhard
Leiden University, Cognitive Psychology Unit, Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition, Wassenaarseweg 52, 2333 AK, Leiden, The Netherlands.
Psychol Res. 2009 Jul;73(4):512-26. doi: 10.1007/s00426-009-0234-2. Epub 2009 Apr 1.
The theory of event coding (TEC) is a general framework explaining how perceived and produced events (stimuli and responses) are cognitively represented and how their representations interact to generate perception and action. This article discusses the implications of TEC for understanding the control of voluntary action and makes an attempt to apply, specify, and concretize the basic theoretical ideas in the light of the available research on action control. In particular, it is argued that the major control operations may take place long before a stimulus is encountered (the prepared-reflex principle), that stimulus-response translation may be more automatic than commonly thought, that action selection and execution are more interwoven than most approaches allow, and that the acquisition of action-contingent events (action effects) is likely to subserve both the selection and the evaluation of actions.
事件编码理论（TEC）是一个通用框架，用于解释感知到的和产生的事件（刺激和反应）是如何在认知上被表征的，以及它们的表征如何相互作用以产生感知和行动。本文讨论了TEC对于理解自主行动控制的意义，并尝试根据现有的行动控制研究，应用、细化和具体化其基本理论观点。特别是，有人认为主要的控制操作可能在遇到刺激之前很久就已发生（准备-反射原则），刺激-反应转换可能比通常认为的更具自动性，行动选择和执行比大多数方法所允许的更加交织在一起，并且行动相关事件（行动效果）的习得可能有助于行动的选择和评估。
