The role of action effects in motor sequence planning and execution: exploring the influence of temporal and spatial effect anticipation.

ABSTRACT: Actions we perform every day generate perceivable outcomes with both spatial and temporal features. According to the ideomotor principle, we plan our actions by anticipating the outcomes, but this principle does not directly address how sequential movements are influenced by different outcomes. We examined how sequential action planning is influenced by the anticipation of temporal and spatial features of action outcomes. We further explored the influence of action sequence switching. Participants performed cued sequences of button presses that generated visual effects which were either spatially compatible or incompatible with the sequences, and the spatial effects appeared after a short or long delay. The sequence cues switched or repeated across trials, and the predictability of action

SUBMITTER: Brown RM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9090704 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature