Exploring the Link between Novel Task Proceduralization and Motor Simulation.
| Autor: | Palenciano AF; Department of Experimental Clinical and Health Psychology, Ghent University, Belgium., González-García C; Department of Experimental Psychology, Ghent University, Belgium.; Mind, Brain, and Behavior Research Center, University of Granada, Spain., de Houwer J; Department of Experimental Clinical and Health Psychology, Ghent University, Belgium., Brass M; Department of Experimental Psychology, Ghent University, Belgium.; Berlin School of Mind and Brain, Department of Psychology, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany., Liefooghe B; Department of Psychology, Utrecht University, NL. |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Zdroj: | Journal of cognition [J Cogn] 2021 Sep 27; Vol. 4 (1), pp. 57. Date of Electronic Publication: 2021 Sep 27 (Print Publication: 2021). |
| DOI: | 10.5334/joc.190 |
| Abstrakt: | Our ability to generate efficient behavior from novel instructions is critical for our adaptation to changing environments. Despite the absence of previous experience, novel instructed content is quickly encoded into an action-based or procedural format, facilitating automatic task processing. In the current work, we investigated the link between proceduralization and motor simulation, specifically, whether the covert activation of the task-relevant responses is used during the assembly of action-based instructions representations. Across three online experiments, we used a concurrent finger-tapping task to block motor simulation during the encoding of novel stimulus-response (S-R) associations. The overlap between the mappings and the motor task at the response level was manipulated. We predicted a greater impairment at mapping implementation in the overlapping condition, where the mappings' relevant response representations were already loaded by the motor demands, and thus, could not be used in the upcoming task simulation. This hypothesis was robustly supported by the three datasets. Nonetheless, the overlapping effect was not modulated by further manipulations of proceduralization-related variables (preparation demands in Exp.2, mapping novelty in Exp.3). Importantly, a fourth control experiment ruled out that our results were driven by alternative accounts as fatigue or negative priming. Overall, we provided strong evidence towards the involvement of motor simulation during anticipatory task reconfiguration. However, this involvement was rather general, and not restricted to novelty scenarios. Finally, these findings can be also integrated into broader models of anticipatory task control, stressing the role of the motor system during preparation. Competing Interests: The authors have no competing interests to declare. (Copyright: © 2021 The Author(s).) |
| Databáze: | MEDLINE |
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