Epsylon Laboratory, EA 4556, Paul Valéry University, Montpellier, France.
Cognitive Psychology Unit & Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands.
Psychon Bull Rev. 2018 Jun;25(3):1059-1065. doi: 10.3758/s13423-017-1308-6.
Ideomotor approaches to action control have provided evidence that the activation of an anticipatory image of previously learned action-effects plays a decisive role in action selection. This study sought for converging evidence by combining three previous experimental paradigms: the response-effect compatibility protocol introduced by Kunde (Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 27(2), 387-394, 2001), the acquisition-test paradigm developed by Elsner and Hommel (Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 27(1), 229, 2001), and the object-action compatibility manipulation of Tucker and Ellis (Visual Cognition, 8(6), 769-800, 2001). Three groups of participants first performed a response-effect compatibility task, in which they carried out power and precision grasps that produced either grasp-compatible or grasp-incompatible pictures, or no action effects. Performance was better in the compatible than in the incompatible group, which replicates previous observations and extends them to relationships between grasps and objects. Then, participants were to categorize object pictures by carrying out grasp responses. Apart from replicating previous findings of better performance in trials in which object size and grasp type was compatible, we found that this stimulus-response compatibility effect depended on previous response-effect learning. Taken together, these findings support the assumption that the experience of action-effect contingencies establishes durable event files that integrate representations of actions and their effects.
动作控制的意念运动方法提供了证据，表明对先前学习的动作效果的预期图像的激活在动作选择中起着决定性的作用。本研究通过结合三个先前的实验范式来寻求一致的证据：Kunde（《实验心理学杂志：人类感知和表现》，27（2），387-394，2001）引入的反应-效果兼容性协议、Elsner 和 Hommel（《实验心理学杂志：人类感知和表现》，27（1），229，2001）开发的习得-测试范式，以及 Tucker 和 Ellis（《视觉认知》，8（6），769-800，2001）的物体-动作兼容性操作。三组参与者首先执行了一项反应-效果兼容性任务，在任务中，他们进行了力量和精度抓握，产生了抓握兼容或抓握不兼容的图片，或者没有动作效果。在兼容组中的表现优于不兼容组，这复制了先前的观察结果，并将其扩展到抓握和物体之间的关系。然后，参与者通过进行抓握反应来对物体图片进行分类。除了复制先前在物体大小和抓握类型兼容的试验中表现更好的发现外，我们还发现这种刺激-反应兼容性效应取决于先前的反应-效果学习。总的来说，这些发现支持了这样一种假设，即动作-效果关系的经验建立了持久的事件文件，将动作及其效果的表示整合在一起。
