Department of Psychological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907-1364, USA.
Psychol Bull. 2010 Nov;136(6):943-74. doi: 10.1037/a0020541.
A framework for action planning, called ideomotor theory, suggests that actions are represented by their perceivable effects. Thus, any activation of the effect image, either endogenously or exogenously, will trigger the corresponding action. We review contemporary studies relating to ideomotor theory in which researchers have investigated various manipulations of action effects and how those effects acquire discriminative control over the actions. Evidence indicates that the knowledge about the relation between response and effect is still a critical component even when other factors, such as stimulus-response or response-response relations, are controlled. When consistent tone effects are provided after responses are made, performance in serial-reaction tasks is better than when the effects are random. Methodology in which acquisition and test stages are used with choice-reaction tasks shows that an action is automatically associated with its effect bilaterally and that anticipation of the effect facilitates action. Ideomotor phenomena include stimulus-response compatibility, in which the perceptual feature of the stimulus activates its corresponding action code when the stimulus itself resembles the effect codes. For this reason, other stimulus-driven action facilitation such as ideomotor action and imitation are treated as ideomotor phenomena and are reviewed. Ideomotor theory also implies that ongoing action affects perception of concurrent events, a topic which we review briefly. Issues concerning ideomotor theory are identified and evaluated. We categorize the range of ideomotor explanations into several groups by whether intermediate steps are assumed to complete sensorimotor transformation or not and by whether a general theoretical framework or a more restricted one is provided by the account.
一种行动规划框架，称为意念运动理论，表明动作是由其可感知的效果来表示的。因此，任何对内或对外的效果图像的激活，都会触发相应的动作。我们回顾了与意念运动理论相关的当代研究，研究人员调查了动作效果的各种操作，以及这些效果如何获得对动作的判别控制。有证据表明，即使在控制了其他因素（如刺激-反应或反应-反应关系）的情况下，关于反应与效果之间关系的知识仍然是一个关键组成部分。当在做出反应后提供一致的音调效果时，在连续反应任务中的表现要好于效果随机时的表现。在使用选择反应任务的获取和测试阶段的方法学中，表明动作会自动与其效果产生双侧关联，并且对效果的预期会促进动作。意念运动现象包括刺激-反应兼容性，其中刺激的感知特征在刺激本身类似于效果代码时激活其对应的动作代码。出于这个原因，其他由刺激驱动的动作促进，如意念运动动作和模仿，被视为意念运动现象，并进行了回顾。意念运动理论还表明，正在进行的动作会影响对同时发生的事件的感知，我们简要回顾了这个话题。确定并评估了与意念运动理论有关的问题。我们根据中间步骤是否假设完成感觉运动转换以及该解释是否提供了一般理论框架或更受限的框架，将意念运动解释的范围分为几组。
