Associative Learning from Verbal Action-Effect Instructions: A Replication and Investigation of Underlying Mechanisms.

ABSTRACT: According to the ideomotor principle, repeated experience with an action and its perceivable consequences (effects) establish action-effect associations. Research on verbal instructions indicates that such associations are also acquired from verbal information. In the present experiment (N = 651), first, we aimed to replicate unintentional response-priming effects from verbal action-effect instructions (direct replication; Condition 1). Second, we investigated the involvement of perceptual processes in the verbally induced response-priming effect by perceptually presenting (Condition 1) versus not presenting (Condition 2) the color that was subsequently named as an effect in the instructions. Third, we tested a saliency-based explanation of the verbally induced response-priming effect by h

SUBMITTER: Damanskyy Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10289050 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature