Intention-based and sensory-based predictions

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Human action serves the purpose to accommodate to environmental demands (stimulus-driven action) and to achieve effects in the environment (intention-based action). While stimulus-driven action is researched to a large extent, intention-based action is not, although it is of outmost importance in every-day life (as we gain control over the environmental stimuli via the control of our actions only). Research on this type of action-effect cycle has developed a theoretical perspective that puts a particular emphasis on predictive brain processes. By being able to predict the effects of our actions on the environment, we know which action to choose for a desired effect. The present project aims at investigating the impact of intentional action on action effect predictions, studies its modulation by attention, and compares this sort of intentional-action-based predictions to sensory-based predictions.