High or low expectations: Expected intensity of action outcome is embedded in action kinetics.

Autor: Buaron B; Sagol School of Neuroscience and School of Psychological Sciences, Tel-Aviv University, Israel., Reznik D; Department of Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipizg, Germany., Mukamel R; Sagol School of Neuroscience and School of Psychological Sciences, Tel-Aviv University, Israel. Electronic address: rmukamel@tauex.tau.ac.il.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Cognition [Cognition] 2024 Oct; Vol. 251, pp. 105887. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Jul 16.
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2024.105887
Abstrakt: Goal-directed actions are performed in order to attain certain sensory consequences in the world. However, expected attributes of these consequences can affect the kinetics of the action. In a set of three studies (n = 120), we examined how expected attributes of stimulus outcome (intensity) shape the kinetics of the triggering action (applied force), even when the action kinetic and attribute are independent. We show that during action execution (button presses), the expected intensity of sensory outcome affects the applied force of the stimulus-producing action in an inverse fashion. Thus, participants applied more force when the expected intensity of the outcome was low (vs. high intensity outcome). In the absence of expectations or when actions were performed in response to the sensory event, no intensity-dependent force modulations were found. Thus, expectations of stimulus intensity and causality play an important role in shaping action kinetics. Finally, we examined the relationship between kinetics and perception and found no influence of applied force level on perceptual detection of low intensity (near-threshold) outcome stimuli, suggesting no causal link between the two. Taken together, our results demonstrate that action kinetics are embedded with high-level context such as the expectation of consequence intensity and the causal relationship with environmental cues.
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Databáze: MEDLINE
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