Department of Psychology, Utrecht University Utrecht, Netherlands.
Front Psychol. 2013 Sep 9;4:602. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00602. eCollection 2013.
The present paper aims to advance the understanding of the control of human behavior by integrating two lines of literature that so far have led separate lives. First, one line of literature is concerned with the ideomotor principle of human behavior, according to which actions are represented in terms of their outcomes. The second line of literature mainly considers the role of reward signals in adaptive control. Here, we offer a combined perspective on how outcome representations and reward signals work together to modulate adaptive control processes. We propose that reward signals signify the value of outcome representations and facilitate the recruitment of control resources in situations where behavior needs to be maintained or adapted to attain the represented outcome. We discuss recent research demonstrating how adaptive control of goal-directed behavior may emerge when outcome representations are co-activated with positive reward signals.
本文旨在整合两条迄今各自独立的文献线，以增进对人类行为控制的理解。第一条文献线关注人类行为的意念运动原理，根据该原理，动作是根据其结果来表示的。第二条文献线主要考虑奖励信号在自适应控制中的作用。在这里，我们提供了一个综合的视角，说明结果表示和奖励信号如何共同作用，以调节自适应控制过程。我们提出，奖励信号表示结果表示的价值，并在需要维持或适应行为以实现所表示的结果的情况下，促进控制资源的招募。我们讨论了最近的研究，这些研究表明，当积极的奖励信号与结果表示共同激活时，目标导向行为的自适应控制如何出现。
