Department of Psychology, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany.
Institute of Psychology, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany.
Psychol Res. 2023 Jun;87(4):1012-1042. doi: 10.1007/s00426-022-01705-8. Epub 2022 Aug 17.
The Theory of Event Coding (TEC) has influenced research on action and perception across the past two decades. It integrates several seminal empirical phenomena and it has continued to stimulate novel experimental approaches on the representational foundations of action control and perceptual experience. Yet, many of the most notable results surrounding TEC originate from an era of psychological research that relied on rather small sample sizes as judged by today's standards. This state hampers future research aiming to build on previous phenomena. We, therefore, provide a multi-lab re-assessment of the following six classical observations: response-effect compatibility, action-induced blindness, response-effect learning, stimulus-response binding, code occupation, and short-term response-effect binding. Our major goal is to provide precise estimates of corresponding effect sizes to facilitate future scientific endeavors. These effect sizes turned out to be considerably smaller than in the original reports, thus allowing for informed decisions on how to address each phenomenon in future work. Of note, the most relevant results of the original observations were consistently obtained in the present experiments as well.
事件编码理论（TEC）在过去二十年中影响了对动作和感知的研究。它整合了几个重要的经验现象，并继续刺激着关于动作控制和感知经验的代表性基础的新的实验方法。然而，许多围绕 TEC 的最显著的结果都源于一个心理学研究的时代，从今天的标准来看，这个时代的研究样本量相当小。这种情况阻碍了旨在建立在先前现象基础上的未来研究。因此，我们对以下六个经典观察结果进行了多实验室重新评估：反应-效应兼容性、动作诱导的盲视、反应-效应学习、刺激-反应绑定、编码占据和短期反应-效应绑定。我们的主要目标是提供相应的效应大小的精确估计，以促进未来的科学努力。这些效应大小比原始报告中的小得多，因此可以在未来的工作中就如何处理每个现象做出明智的决策。值得注意的是，原始观察结果中最相关的结果在本实验中也得到了一致的验证。
