Frequency of the first feature in action sequences influences feature binding
| Autor: | Lisa R. Fournier, Paul S. Mattson, Lawrence P. Behmer |
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| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
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Male Linguistics and Language Adolescent media_common.quotation_subject Decision Making Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Engram Serial Learning Stimulus (physiology) Functional Laterality Language and Linguistics Discrimination Learning Young Adult Orientation Perception Psychophysics Reaction Time Humans Attention media_common Communication business.industry Association Learning Pattern recognition Sensory Systems Pattern Recognition Visual Action planning Action plan Mental Recall Female Artificial intelligence business Psychology Color Perception Psychomotor Performance |
| Zdroj: | Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics. 74:1446-1460 |
| ISSN: | 1943-393X 1943-3921 |
| DOI: | 10.3758/s13414-012-0335-7 |
| Popis: | We investigated whether binding among perception and action feature codes is a preliminary step toward creating a more durable memory trace of an action event. If so, increasing the frequency of a particular event (e.g., a stimulus requiring a movement with the left or right hand in an up or down direction) should increase the strength and speed of feature binding for this event. The results from two experiments, using a partial-repetition paradigm, confirmed that feature binding increased in strength and/or occurred earlier for a high-frequency (e.g., left hand moving up) than for a low-frequency (e.g., right hand moving down) event. Moreover, increasing the frequency of the first-specified feature in the action sequence alone (e.g., "left" hand) increased the strength and/or speed of action feature binding (e.g., between the "left" hand and movement in an "up" or "down" direction). The latter finding suggests an update to the theory of event coding, as not all features in the action sequence equally determine binding strength. We conclude that action planning involves serial binding of features in the order of action feature execution (i.e., associations among features are not bidirectional but are directional), which can lead to a more durable memory trace. This is consistent with physiological evidence suggesting that serial order is preserved in an action plan executed from memory and that the first feature in the action sequence may be critical in preserving this serial order. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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