Contributions of expected sensory and affective action effects to action selection and performance: Evidence from forced- and free-choice tasks.

ABSTRACT: Whereas ideomotor approaches to action control emphasize the importance of sensory action effects for action selection, motivational approaches emphasize the role of affective action effects. We used a game-like experimental setup to directly compare the roles of sensory and affective action effects in selecting and performing reaching actions in forced- and free-choice tasks. The two kinds of action effects did not interact. Action selection and execution in the forced-choice task were strongly impacted by the spatial compatibility between actions and the expected sensory action effects, whereas the free-choice task was hardly affected. In contrast, action execution, but not selection, in both tasks was strongly impacted by the spatial compatibility between actions and highly valued actio

SUBMITTER: Hommel B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5486880 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature