The role of long-term-memory and short-term-memory links in the Simon effect.

Tagliabue, Mariaelena; Zorzi, Marco; Umiltà, Carlo; Bassignani, Francesca

doi:10.1037/0096-1523.26.2.648

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“…Such robustness would be expected from a sensorimotor learning account of imitation, as the visuomotor links subserving the body part priming effect shown in Experiment 1 and at pretest in Experiment 2 are the results of lifelong learning. Consistent with this interpretation, it was found in a study examining the experiential origins of spatial compatibility effects (Tagliabue et al, 2000) that a fixed amount of incompatible sensorimotor training reversed the Simon effect in children, but only eliminated it in adults.…”

Section: Effects Of Learning and Expertise On The Mirror Neuron Systemmentioning

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Experience-based priming of body parts: A study of action imitation

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Abstract:Two important dimensions of action are the movement and the body part with which the movement is effected. Experiment 1 tested whether automatic imitation is sensitive to the body part dimension of action. We found that hand and foot movements were selectively primed by observation of a corresponding, task-irrelevant effector in motion.Experiment 2 used this body part priming effect to investigate the role of sensorimotor learning in the development of imitation. The results showed that incompatible training, in which observation of hand movements was paired with execution of foot movements and vice versa, led to a greater reduction in body part priming than compatible training, in which subjects experienced typical contingencies between observation and execution of hand and foot movements. These findings are consistent with the assumption that overt behavioral imitation is mediated by the mirror neuron system, which is somatotopically organized. Our results also support the hypothesis that the development of imitation and the mirror neuron system are driven by correlated sensorimotor learning. Section: Cognitive and behavioral neuroscience

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Section: Effects Of Learning and Expertise On The Mirror Neuron Systemmentioning

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Experience-based priming of body parts: A study of action imitation

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“…Thus, people may find it easier to respond to left and right stimuli with a left and right response, respectively, because the spatial codes of corresponding stimuli and responses are associated more strongly. Again, this reasoning finds support from studies where compatibility effects were assessed after having subjects practice spatially compatible or incompatible mappings [132,133].…”

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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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“…Another distinction is that participants in the mixed-task condition of the earlier studies used a single location mapping and received no prior practice with pure Simon and SRC tasks, unlike the present study. This distinction seems more likely to be responsible for the stronger reversal of the SRC effect in Experiment 2 because the influence of prior practice with an incompatible mapping is stronger than that with a compatible mapping (e.g., Tagliabue, Zorzi, Umiltà, & Bassignani, 2000). For the pure Simon task, RT was 102 ms longer for older than younger adults, and the older adults showed a Simon effect of 41 ms compared to 20 ms for the younger adults.…”

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Age differences in response selection for pure and mixed stimulus–response mappings and tasks

Proctor

2008

Acta Psychologica

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Two experiments examined effects of mixed stimulus-response mappings and tasks for older and younger adults. In Experiment 1, participants performed two-choice spatial reaction tasks with blocks of pure and mixed compatible and incompatible mappings. In Experiment 2, a compatible or incompatible mapping was mixed with a Simon task for which the mapping of stimulus color to location was relevant and stimulus location irrelevant. In both experiments older adults showed larger mixing costs than younger adults and larger compatibility effects, with the differences particularly pronounced in Experiment 1 when location mappings were mixed. In mixed conditions, when stimulus location was relevant, older adults benefited more than younger adults from complete repetition of the task and stimulus from the preceding trial. When stimulus location was irrelevant, the benefit of complete repetition did not differ reliably between age groups. The results suggest that the age-related deficit associated with mixing mappings and tasks is primarily due to older adults having more difficulty separating task sets that activate conflicting response codes.

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The role of long-term-memory and short-term-memory links in the Simon effect.

Cited by 186 publications

References 47 publications

Experience-based priming of body parts: A study of action imitation

Experience-based priming of body parts: A study of action imitation

Planning and Representing Intentional Action

Age differences in response selection for pure and mixed stimulus–response mappings and tasks

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