Pfister Roland, Pfeuffer Christina U, Kunde Wilfried
Julius-Maximilians-University of Würzburg, Department of Psychology III, Röntgenring 11, 97070 Würzburg, Germany.
Julius-Maximilians-University of Würzburg, Department of Psychology III, Röntgenring 11, 97070 Würzburg, Germany.
Cognition. 2014 Sep;132(3):251-61. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2014.04.012. Epub 2014 May 20.
Anticipations of future sensory events have the potential of priming motor actions that would typically cause these events. Such effect anticipations are generally assumed to rely on previous physical experiences of the contingency of own actions and their ensuing effects. Here we propose that merely imagined action effects may influence behaviour similarly as physically experienced action effects do. Three experiments in the response-effect compatibility paradigm show that the mere knowledge of action-effect contingencies is indeed sufficient to incorporate these effects into action control even if the effects are never experienced as causally linked to own actions. The experiments further highlight constraints for this mechanism which seems to be rather effortful and to depend on explicit intentions.
对未来感官事件的预期有可能引发通常会导致这些事件的运动动作。这种效应预期通常被认为依赖于自身动作与其后续效应之间的偶然性的先前身体经验。在此我们提出，仅仅是想象的动作效应可能会像实际体验到的动作效应一样影响行为。在反应 - 效应兼容性范式下进行的三个实验表明，即使这些效应从未被体验为与自身动作有因果联系，仅仅是对动作 - 效应偶然性的了解确实足以将这些效应纳入动作控制之中。这些实验进一步突出了这种机制的限制，该机制似乎相当费力且依赖于明确的意图。
