Dual-task interference in action programming and action planning — Evidence from the end-state comfort effect

Löhr-Limpens, Miriam; Göhringer, Frederic; Schenk, Thomas

doi:10.1016/j.actpsy.2022.103637

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“…Thirty right handed participants, naïve to the objective of the experiment, volunteered to participate in the study (examples of comparable sample sizes can be found in Logan & Fischman, 2015;Löhr-Limpens et al, 2022;Modersitzki & Studenka, 2020;Scharoun et al, 2018). Participants were recruited among students or their relatives.…”

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Grip selection without tool knowledge: end-state comfort effect in familiar and novel tool use

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A well-known phenomenon for the study of movement planning is the end-state comfort (ESC) effect: When they reach and grasp tools, individuals tend to adopt uncomfortable initial hand postures if that allows a subsequent comfortable final posture. In the context of tool use, this effect is modulated by tool orientation, task goal, and cooperation. However, the cognitive bases of the ESC effect remain unclear. The goal of this study was to determine the contribution of semantic tool knowledge and technical reasoning to movement planning, by testing whether the ESC effect typically observed with familiar tools would also be observed with novel tools.Twenty-six participants were asked to reach and grasp familiar and novel tools under varying conditions (i.e., tool's handle downward vs. upward; tool transport vs. use; solo vs. cooperation). In our findings, the effects of tool orientation, task goal and cooperation were replicated with novel tools. It follows that semantic tool knowledge is not critical for the ESC effect to occur. In fact, we found an "habitual" effect: Participant adopted uncomfortable grips with familiar tools even when it was not necessary (i.e., to transport them), probably because of the interference of habitual movement programming with actual movement programming. A cognitive view of movement planning is proposed, according to which goal comprehension (1) may rely on semantic tool knowledge, technical reasoning, and/or social skills, (2) defines endstate configuration, which in turn (3) calibrates beginning-state comfort and hence the occurrence of the ESC effect.

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confidence: 99%