Institut fur Psychologie.
J Exp Psychol Gen. 2019 Jan;148(1):174-183. doi: 10.1037/xge0000483. Epub 2018 Sep 13.
Binding between stimulus features and between stimuli and responses has been discussed as a central mechanism in human action control: Carrying out a response to a stimulus leads to bindings between stimulus and response features, so that repetition of one can retrieve the other later on. We find it intriguing that all discussions to date focus either on stimulus-stimulus or on stimulus-response bindings. Here we argue that response-response bindings are equally relevant for action control, if binding really plays a role in action representation. Hence, the present study investigates whether the same kind of integration and retrieval as observed between stimuli and responses is also possible between two individual responses pursuing different goals. A new design including sequential responses to a Task A and a Task B, was developed to analyze bindings between separately planned and executed responses. In two experiments, the results indicated retrieval of the response to Task B as a result of the repetition of the response to Task A. This is the first evidence for an integration of two separately planned responses in the same event representation. The result has implications for the structure of human action representation, indicating binding of individual actions in higher order representations, and suggests that binding is an even more ubiquitous mechanism in action control than previously shown. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2018 APA, all rights reserved).
对刺激做出反应会导致刺激和反应特征之间的绑定，从而使得重复一个可以在以后检索到另一个。我们感到好奇的是，迄今为止所有的讨论要么集中在刺激-刺激或刺激-反应绑定上。在这里，我们认为，如果绑定确实在动作表示中起作用，那么反应-反应绑定对于动作控制同样重要。因此，本研究调查了在追求不同目标的两个单独的反应之间是否也可能存在类似于在刺激和反应之间观察到的那种整合和检索。开发了一种新的设计，包括对任务 A 和任务 B 的顺序反应，以分析分别计划和执行的反应之间的绑定。在两个实验中，结果表明，重复对任务 A 的反应会导致对任务 B 的反应的检索。这是第一个关于在同一事件表示中整合两个单独计划的反应的证据。该结果对人类动作表示的结构具有启示意义，表明在更高阶表示中绑定个体动作，并表明绑定是动作控制中比以前显示的更为普遍的机制。（PsycINFO 数据库记录（c）2018 APA，保留所有权利）。
