Imagined event files: An interplay between imagined and perceived objects

Cochrane, Brett A.; Milliken, Bruce

doi:10.3758/s13423-019-01572-2

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“…Planning an action (A) can be construed as such an episode, though one that has not yet occurred. In this respect, the present observations corroborate recent evidence that, besides in perceiving, feature binding is also involved in imagining corresponding events (Cochrane & Milliken, 2019 ). Initiating another action (B) retrieves that mental episode if some features overlap, invoking costs of partial feature overlap because the to-be-initiated action reactivates other, not yet required features of the planned action.…”

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Task relevance determines binding of effect features in action planning

Mocke,

Weller,

Frings

et al. 2020

Atten Percept Psychophys

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Action planning can be construed as the temporary binding of features of perceptual action effects. While previous research demonstrated binding for task-relevant, body-related effect features, the role of task-irrelevant or environment-related effect features in action planning is less clear. Here, we studied whether task-relevance or body-relatedness determines feature binding in action planning. Participants planned an action A, but before executing it initiated an intermediate action B. Each action relied on a body-related effect feature (index vs. middle finger movement) and an environment-related effect feature (cursor movement towards vs. away from a reference object). In Experiments 1 and 2, both effects were task-relevant. Performance in action B suffered from partial feature overlap with action A compared to full feature repetition or alternation, which is in line with binding of both features while planning action A. Importantly, this cost disappeared when all features were available but only body-related features were task-relevant (Experiment 3). When only the environment-related effect of action A was known in advance, action B benefitted when it aimed at the same (vs. a different) environment-related effect (Experiment 4). Consequently, the present results support the idea that task relevance determines whether binding of body-related and environment-related effect features takes place while the pre-activation of environment-related features without binding them primes feature-overlapping actions.

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Task relevance determines binding of effect features in action planning

Mocke,

Weller,

Frings

et al. 2020

Atten Percept Psychophys

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“…A particularly relevant result was recently reported by Cochrane and Milliken (2019). Participants were cued to imagine a color and, once that imagery was generated, to make an arbitrary key-press response based on an arrow cue (“left” or “right”) that was presented earlier in the trial sequence.…”

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“…4That is, unless visual representations are activated involuntarily without the imagery instruction (see Cochrane & Milliken, 2019). …”

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The representational basis of positive and negative repetition effects.

Cochrane¹,

Milliken²

2020

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Perfor

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Repetition of target features in the same spatial location can either benefit or impair performance in perceptual tasks. Moreover, which of these two effects occurs can depend on whether an intervening event is presented temporally between consecutive targets. Here, we explored these effects for color feature repetitions by varying the representational overlap of consecutive targets. The second target on all experimental trials was a simple perceptual color. The task and first target were manipulated to vary the representation produced in response to the first target (perceptual representation of color in Experiment 1; imagined representation of color in Experiments 2 and 5; conceptual representation of color in Experiment 3; color-unrelated representation in Experiment 4). Perceptual and imagined color representations for the first target produced a positive repetition effect when an intervening event did not appear between targets but produced a negative repetition effect when an intervening event did appear between targets. In contrast, conceptual color and color-unrelated representations produced a negative repetition effect both with and without an intervening event. These results suggest that positive repetition effects depend on consecutive targets that share visual representations, whereas negative repetition effects reflect a more complex relationship between stimulus and response features across targets. Public Significance StatementThis study demonstrates that color perception and color imagery can produce similar trial-to-trial repetition effects, with color repetition sometimes benefiting and other times impairing performance.A key finding is that positive repetition effects, but not the negative repetition effects, depend closely on consecutive targets sharing visual representations produced either by perceiving a color or imagining a color.

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“…The effortless knowledge formation principle behind implicit learning relieves dementia patients from the requirement of high levels of attention occurring in explicit learning (Reber et al, 1999). In this way, we aimed to optimize object knowledge with an experience of the same objects in different task contexts so that it could create or repair object files (Cochrane & Milliken, 2019;Hollingworth et al, 2001;Kahneman et al, 1992).…”

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Object-Based Practice Effects Recover the Graphic Object Concept in Alzheimer’s Dementia

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Lange-Küttner²

2020

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INTRODUCTION: Dementia is often accompanied by deficits in visual and spatial cognition (e.g. Mielke et al., 1995; Rizzo et al., 2000). We investigated whether the degenerative process could be halted or reversed by daily cognitive exercises. METHOD: Ten older participants with dementia and ten healthy controls were trained on five consecutive days with computerised visual cognition and drawing tasks using the same ten objects (item-based learning). The three visuo-cognitive domains were Semantic Memory (SEM), Scene Perception (SP), and Drawing (DWG). RESULTS: Dementia patients narrowed or closed the gap to healthy controls as reaction time decreased and accuracy increased. In accuracy, the gap closed earlier in SEM than in SP, while in reaction time, gaps were narrowed considerably but persisted. In drawing, the gap in accuracy narrowed and lost object concepts could re-emerge. DISCUSSION: We obtained significant item-specific training effects across tasks feeding into an object-specific neural network.

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Imagined event files: An interplay between imagined and perceived objects

Cited by 16 publications

References 19 publications

Task relevance determines binding of effect features in action planning

Task relevance determines binding of effect features in action planning

The representational basis of positive and negative repetition effects.

Object-Based Practice Effects Recover the Graphic Object Concept in Alzheimer’s Dementia

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