Exploring modality-specificity and conceptual generalization of response-effect anticipation

在认知心理学中，“表象”方法提出，反应是由预期的感官后果（“反应效应”）控制的。然而，反应与预期效果之间关系的具体性质在很大程度上仍不清楚。本项目旨在探讨两个相互关联的问题。首先，我们检查反应模态（例如手动与声音）和效果模态（例如，视觉与听觉）影响效果预期的影响。第二，我们探讨是否可以概括的反应和效果之间的知觉相似关系的概念关系的反应控制的作用效果预期。我们调查这些问题，使用响应效果（R-E）兼容性范式与可预测的效果刺激。以前的工作表明，R-E兼容性（相对于“尺寸重叠”）促进性能相对于R-E不兼容的条件，这表明预期效果的表示之前的响应。使用这种范式的变化，我们系统地操纵的反应和效果的模态检查效果预期的模态映射的作用。此外，我们通过操纵预期效果的感知表面特征来检查反应和效果的概念重叠，使得感知上不匹配的效果可以保持与反应的概念关系，例如在双语迁移中（即，言语反应和听觉反应效应的语言）。总之，这个项目将完善有关模态特异性和概念R-E重叠的补充问题的概念框架，从而有助于更好地理解反应控制的机制。

In cognitive psychology, the "ideomotor" approach proposes that responses are controlled by anticipations of intended sensory consequences ("response effects"). However, the specific nature of the relation between response and anticipated effect is still largely unclear. The present project aims to explore two interrelated issues. First, we examine whether the mapping of response modality (e.g. manual vs. vocal) and effect modality (e.g., visual vs. auditory) influences the impact of effect anticipation. Second, we explore whether the role of effect anticipation in response control can be generalised from perceptual similarity relations between responses and effects to conceptual relations. We investigate these issues using a response-effect (R-E) compatibility paradigm with predictable effect stimuli. Previous work showed that R-E compatibility (with respect to "dimensional overlap") facilitates performance relative to R-E incompatible conditions, suggesting that representations of anticipated effects precede the response. Using variations of this paradigm, we systematically manipulate the modality of responses and effects to examine the role of modality mapping in effect anticipation. Moreover, we examine conceptual overlap of response and effect by manipulating perceptual surface characteristics of the anticipated effects, so that perceptually non-matching effects can maintain the conceptual relation to the response, such as in bilingual transfer (i.e., language of verbal responses and of auditory response effects). Taken together, this project will refine the ideomotor framework with respect to the complementary issues of modality-specificity and conceptual R-E overlap and will thus contribute to a better understanding of the mechanisms of response control.