Temporal contiguity determines overshadowing and potentiation of human Action-Outcome performance.

ABSTRACT: Three experiments (n = 81, n = 81, n = 82, respectively) explored how temporal contiguity influences Action-Outcome learning, assessing whether an intervening signal competed, facilitated, or had no effect on performance and causal attribution in undergraduate participants. Across experiments, we observed competition and facilitation as a function of the temporal contiguity between Action and Outcome. When there was a strong temporal relationship between Action and Outcome, the signal competed with the action, hindering instrumental performance but not causal attribution (Experiments 1 and 3). However, with weak temporal contiguity, the same signal facilitated both instrumental performance and causal attribution (Experiments 1 and 2). Finally, the physical intensity of the signal determine

SUBMITTER: Alcala JA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9371369 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature