Linking Actions and Their Perceivable Consequences in the Human Brain

Elsner, Birgit; Hommel, Bernhard; Mentschel, Claudia; Drzezga, Alexander; Prinz, Wolfgang; Conrad, Bastian; Siebner, Hartwig R.

doi:10.1006/nimg.2002.1162

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“…Also, the hippocampus has been found to be involved in processes of assessing relationships between events and putting events into their context (Cohen et al 1999;Henke et al 1999;Elsner et al 2002;Bird and Burgess 2008). SWS has been specifically implicated in the consolidation of hippocampus-dependent memories, presumably as a result of reactivation of hippocampal neurons and associated hippocampo-neocortical information transfer during this sleep stage (Wilson and McNaughton 1994;Buzsáki 1998;Gais and Born 2004;Wagner and Born 2008).…”

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Shifting from implicit to explicit knowledge: Different roles of early- and late-night sleep

Yordanova

Kolev²,

Verleger³

et al. 2008

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Sleep has been shown to promote the generation of explicit knowledge as indicated by the gain of insight into previously unrecognized task regularities. Here, we explored whether this generation of explicit knowledge depends on pre-sleep implicit knowledge, and specified the differential roles of slow-wave sleep (SWS) vs. rapid eye movement (REM) sleep in this process. Implicit and explicit knowledge (insight) related to a hidden regularity were assessed in an associative motor-learning task (number reduction task, NRT), which was performed in two sessions (initial practice and retest) separated by 3 h of either early-night sleep, rich in SWS, or of late-night sleep, rich in REM sleep. About half of the participants developed signs of implicit rule knowledge (i.e., speeded reaction times for responses determined by the hidden regularity) at initial practice preceding early or late sleep. Of these, half developed explicit knowledge across early-night sleep, significantly more than across late-night sleep. In contrast, late-night subjects preferentially remained on the level of implicit rule knowledge after sleep. Participants who did not develop implicit knowledge before sleep had comparable rates of transition to implicit or explicit knowledge across early and late sleep. If subjects gained explicit knowledge across sleep, this was associated with lower amounts of REM sleep, specifically in the late-night group. SWS predominant during the early night may restructure implicit memory representations in a way that allows creating an explicit representation afterward, whereas REM sleep in the late night appears to stabilize them in their implicit form.

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Shifting from implicit to explicit knowledge: Different roles of early- and late-night sleep

Yordanova

Kolev²,

Verleger³

et al. 2008

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116

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“…After having acquired action-contingent tone effects adults were asked to merely listen to those and other tones while being brain-scanned. Only two brain areas showed activity that correlated with the frequency of action-effect tones: the SMA and the right hippocampus [94]. Thus, activating the codes of acquired action effects has a direct impact on brain structures responsible for action planning.…”

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Planning and Representing Intentional Action

Hommel

2003

The Scientific World JOURNAL

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This paper reviews recent approaches to human action planning and the cognitive representation of intentional actions. Evidence suggests that action planning takes place in terms of anticipated features of the intended goal, that is, in terms of action effects. These effects are acquired from early infancy on by registering contingencies between movements and perceptual movement outcomes. Co-occurrence of movements and effects leads to the creation of bidirectional associations between the underlying internal codes, thus establishing distributed perception-action networks subserving both perceiving external events and intentionally producing them. Action plans determine only the general, goal-relevant features of intended actions, while the fine-tuning is left to on-line sensory-motor processing. Action plans emerge from competition for action control between several factors: overlearned habits, perceptual events, and emotional influences, among others. Accordingly, action control represents a balance between personal intentions and wishes on the one hand and environmental affordances and demands on the other.

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“…As studies using PET and fMRI have shown, once an action eVect has been acquired its mere perception primes apparently associated motor structures (in the caudal supplementary motor area; Elsner et al, 2002;Melcher, Weidema, Eenshuistra, Hommel, & Gruber, 2008).…”

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The microgenesis of action-effect binding

Dutzi

Hommel

2008

Psychological Research

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Ideomotor theories of human action control assume that performing a movement leads to the automatic integration of the underlying motor pattern with codes of its perceptual consequences. We studied the microgenesis of action-eVect integration by varying the mapping of action eVects upon actions from trial to trial. Experiments 1 and 2 showed that perceiving a tone repetition systematically aVects one's tendency to carry out the response that produced that tone in the previous trial, suggesting that even the unintentional production of a stimulus creates a temporary binding of that stimulus with the action that brought it about. Experiments 3 and 4 extended this Wnding in suggesting that the integration and/or retrieval of action eVects is modulated by attentional factors: Ongoing performance is more impacted by action eVects if they are salient or match the current attentional set.

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Linking Actions and Their Perceivable Consequences in the Human Brain

Cited by 123 publications

References 37 publications

Shifting from implicit to explicit knowledge: Different roles of early- and late-night sleep

Shifting from implicit to explicit knowledge: Different roles of early- and late-night sleep

Planning and Representing Intentional Action

The microgenesis of action-effect binding

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