Ideomotor Action: Evidence for Automaticity in Learning, but Not Execution.
action control
automaticiy
goal-directed behavior
ideomotor
implicit learning
Journal
Frontiers in psychology
ISSN: 1664-1078
Titre abrégé: Front Psychol
Pays: Switzerland
ID NLM: 101550902
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
2020
2020
Historique:
received:
16
04
2019
accepted:
27
01
2020
entrez:
3
3
2020
pubmed:
3
3
2020
medline:
3
3
2020
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
Human habits are widely assumed to result from stimulus-response (S-R) associations that are formed if one frequently and consistently does the same thing in the same situation. According to Ideomotor Theory, a distinct but similar process could lead to response-outcome (R-O) associations if responses frequently and consistently produce the same outcomes. This process is assumed to occur spontaneously, and because these associations can operate in a bidirectional manner, merely perceiving or thinking of an outcome should automatically activate the associated action. In the current paper we test this automaticity feature of ideomotor learning. In four experiments, participants completed the same learning phase in which they could acquire associations, and were either explicitly informed about the contingency between actions and outcomes, or not. Automatic action selection and initiation were investigated using a free-choice task in Experiment 1 and forced-choice tasks in Experiment 2, 3a, and 3b. An ideomotor effect was only obtained in the free-choice, but not convincingly in the forced-choice tasks. Together, this suggests that action-outcome relations can be learned spontaneously, but that there may be limits to the automaticity of the ideomotor effect.
Identifiants
pubmed: 32116968
doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00185
pmc: PMC7033682
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Pagination
185Informations de copyright
Copyright © 2020 Sun, Custers, Marien and Aarts.
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