A short history of ideo-motor action

Stock, Armin; Stock, Claudia

doi:10.1007/s00426-003-0154-5

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“…Ideomotor theory, dating back to the 19th-century philosophers (e.g., Harleß, 1861;Herbart, 1825;James, 1890;see Pfister & Janczyk, 2012, or Stock & Stock, 2004, for historical notes), in fact ascribes to action effects a generative role: Their anticipation is what selects the corresponding bodily movement suited to produce the actual effect (see also Hommel, Müsseler, Aschersleben, & Prinz, 2001). Evidence for this has been provided with the response-effect compatibility (REC) paradigm (Kunde, 2001).…”

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Action selection by temporally distal goal states

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In line with ideomotor theory, numerous responseeffect compatibility (REC) studies have revealed evidence that action effects are anticipated prior to action initiation, as indicated by an REC effect: For example, a response is given faster when its effect occurs on the same rather than on the opposite side. So far, REC studies have only investigated immediate effects-that is, effects occurring immediately after the response is given. However, it may be argued that in everyday life many actions cause effects that do not occur immediately. Additionally, because actions can have more than one effect, desired effects occurring in the future may only be arrived at if fundamental effects are achieved first. In the present study, we investigated whether temporally more distal effects are anticipated in order to initiate actions, and how multiple, serially occurring effects are represented. To this end, a spatial REC paradigm was extended in such a way that a first, immediate effect (i.e., immediately following the response; E1) was followed 500 ms later by another visual effect (E2). An REC effect was only observed for the temporally more distal E2, and this result suggests that temporally more distal effects can also be anticipated during action selection.

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Action selection by temporally distal goal states

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“…Early formulations of this theory emphasized body-related, and especially proprioceptive, action effects as a means to address the corresponding motor patterns (Harleß, 1861;Herbart, 1825;James, 1890;cf. Pfister & Janczyk, 2012;Stock & Stock, 2004). In other words, the mental representations of upcoming proprioceptive changes are assumed to be linked to the specific actions that had caused them, and by this linkage, sensory anticipations gain the potential to activate the corresponding actions.…”

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“…The focus of these early theoretical formulations on bodyrelated action effects becomes evident in different writings and can be succinctly summarized in the following definition of Bmovement ideas^(i.e., anticipations) as Bthe revival, through central excitation, of the sensations, visual, tactile, kinaesthetic, originally produced by the performance of the movement itself^ (Washburn, 1908, p. 280; see also Stock & Stock, 2004). In contrast to this focus on body-related action effects, empirical investigations of the ideomotor mechanism have mainly focused on action effects in the environment that are external to the body (e.g., Greenwald, 1970;Hommel, 1993;Kunde, 2001).…”

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Stroking me softly: Body-related effects in effect-based action control

Wirth

Pfister

Brandes

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Atten Percept Psychophys

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Empirical investigations of ideomotor effect anticipations have mainly focused on action effects in the environment. By contrast, action effects that apply to the agent's body have rarely been put to the test in corresponding experimental paradigms. We present a series of experiments using the response-effect compatibility paradigm, in which we studied the impacts of to-be-produced tactile action effects on action selection, initiation, and execution. The results showed a robust and reliable impact if these tactile action effects were rendered task-relevant (Exp. 1), but not when they were task-irrelevant (Exps. 2a and 2b). We further showed that anticipations of tactile action effects follow the same time course as anticipations of environment-related effects (Exps. 3 and 4). These findings demonstrate that body-related action effects affect action control much as environment-related effects do, and therefore support the theoretical assumption of the functional equivalence of all types of action effects.

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“…An explanation of these findings has been derived from ideomotor theories of action control (e.g., Hommel, Müsseler, Aschersleben, & Prinz, 2001; for a historical overview see Stock & Stock, 2004). The crucial assumption of this approach is that motor actions are cognitively represented by their sensory effects; that is, by codes of the perceptual effects that contingently follow certain motor actions.…”

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Visual and tactile action effects determine bimanual coordination performance

Janczyk

Skirde

Weigelt³

et al. 2009

Human Movement Science

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Please cite this article as: Janczyk, M., Skirde, S., Weigelt, M., Kunde, W., Visual and tactile action effects determine bimanual coordination performance, Human Movement Science (2009Science ( ), doi: 10.1016Science ( /j.humov.2009 This is a PDF file of an unedited manuscript that has been accepted for publication. As a service to our customers we are providing this early version of the manuscript. The manuscript will undergo copyediting, typesetting, and review of the resulting proof before it is published in its final form. Please note that during the production process errors may be discovered which could affect the content, and all legal disclaimers that apply to the journal pertain. ACCEPTED MANUSCRIPT ACCEPTED MANUSCRIPT AbstractEffect-based models of motor control assign a crucial role to anticipated perceptual feedback in action planning. Two experiments were conducted to test the validity of this proposal for discrete bimanual key press responses. The results revealed that the normally observed performance advantage for the preparation of two responses with homologous rather than non-homologous fingers becomes inverted when homologous fingers produce non-identical visual effects, and non-homologous fingers produce identical visual effects. In Experiment 2 the finger homology effect was strongly reduced when homologous fingers produced nonidentical tactile feedback. The results show that representations of to-be-produced visual and tactile action effects both contribute to action planning, though possibly to a varying degree.Implications of these results for effect-based models of motor control are considered.

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A short history of ideo-motor action

Cited by 261 publications

References 23 publications

Action selection by temporally distal goal states

Action selection by temporally distal goal states

Stroking me softly: Body-related effects in effect-based action control

Visual and tactile action effects determine bimanual coordination performance

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