Effect-based control of facial expressions: Evidence from action–effect compatibility

Kunde, Wilfried; Lozo, Ljubica; Neumann, Roland

doi:10.3758/s13423-011-0093-x

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“…Note that both conditions employ the same stimuli and the same responses, and only differ regarding the action effect-which occurs only after the RT has already been measured. Similar findings have been made for other dimensions, such as response and effect intensity (Kunde, 2001;Paelecke & Kunde, 2007), rotations (Janczyk, Yamaguchi, Proctor, & Pfister, 2015), continuous lever movements , facial expressions (Kunde, Lozo, & Neumann, 2011), and semantic overlaps between color words and actual colors (Koch & Kunde, 2002) or number words and numbers (Badets, Koch, & Toussaint, 2013), and action effects also play a role in dual-task performance (Janczyk, 2016;Janczyk, Pfister, Hommel, & Kunde, 2014).…”

Section: Ideomotor Theory and Effect-based Action Controlsupporting

confidence: 76%

Action selection by temporally distal goal states

2016

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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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Section: Ideomotor Theory and Effect-based Action Controlsupporting

confidence: 76%

Action selection by temporally distal goal states

2016

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“…If the positions of the keys corresponded to the positions of their effects, responses were faster than when there was no such spatial response-effect compatibility. Similar effects have been reported for other kinds of actions and stimuli, including social behavior (Kunde et al, 2004, 2011). …”

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confidence: 82%

Too Good to be True? Ideomotor Theory from a Computational Perspective

Herbort¹,

Butz²

2012

Front. Psychology

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In recent years, Ideomotor Theory has regained widespread attention and sparked the development of a number of theories on goal-directed behavior and learning. However, there are two issues with previous studies’ use of Ideomotor Theory. Although Ideomotor Theory is seen as very general, it is often studied in settings that are considerably more simplistic than most natural situations. Moreover, Ideomotor Theory’s claim that effect anticipations directly trigger actions and that action-effect learning is based on the formation of direct action-effect associations is hard to address empirically. We address these points from a computational perspective. A simple computational model of Ideomotor Theory was tested in tasks with different degrees of complexity. The model evaluation showed that Ideomotor Theory is a computationally feasible approach for understanding efficient action-effect learning for goal-directed behavior if the following preconditions are met: (1) The range of potential actions and effects has to be restricted. (2) Effects have to follow actions within a short time window. (3) Actions have to be simple and may not require sequencing. The first two preconditions also limit human performance and thus support Ideomotor Theory. The last precondition can be circumvented by extending the model with more complex, indirect action generation processes. In conclusion, we suggest that Ideomotor Theory offers a comprehensive framework to understand action-effect learning. However, we also suggest that additional processes may mediate the conversion of effect anticipations into actions in many situations.

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“…Also, this effect of compatibility usually emerges especially in slow responses (since there is more time for the codes of the anticipated effect to interfere with the codes of the required response; Keller & Koch, 2006;Kunde, 2001;Kunde, Lozo, & Neumann, 2011;Pfister, Janczyk, Gressmann et al, 2014). We therefore expected to observe a larger influence of compatibility with slower than with fast responses, made evident by an interaction between R-E compatibility and distribution quintile.…”

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

Wirth

Pfister

Brandes

et al. 2016

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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Effect-based control of facial expressions: Evidence from action–effect compatibility

Cited by 32 publications

References 35 publications

Action selection by temporally distal goal states

Action selection by temporally distal goal states

Too Good to be True? Ideomotor Theory from a Computational Perspective

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

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