Automatically controlled: Task irrelevance fully cancels otherwise automatic imitation
| Autor: | Ilya Mark-Tavger, Uri Hertz, Eitan Hemed, Shirel Bakbani-Elkayam, Baruch Eitam |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Event (computing)
media_common.quotation_subject Movement Conditioning Classical Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Imitative Behavior Task (project management) Developmental Neuroscience Task analysis Humans Relevance (information retrieval) Sequence learning Imitation Set (psychology) Psychology General Psychology Cognitive psychology Coding (social sciences) media_common |
| Zdroj: | Journal of experimental psychology. General. 151(5) |
| ISSN: | 1939-2222 |
| Popis: | Automatic imitation refers to the act of unintentionally mimicking observed actions. Inspired by a theoretical framework that allows for controlled yet unintentional processes, we tested whether automatic imitation depends on the task relevance of the to-be-imitated movements. Replicating previous results, we find that movements that are part of the participant's task set unintentionally influence response. Our key finding is that participants generally do not imitate similar and highly familiar movements that are not part of the task set and hence are task-irrelevant. Furthermore, the results of computational data modeling are consistent with the notion that task-relevance modulates the mental activation of information, as posited by the above theoretical framework. Our findings are not predicted and cannot be explained using current accounts of automatic imitation, such as Associative Sequence Learning or Theory of Event Coding. At a broader level, the key contribution of this study is in challenging the empirical basis for automatic imitation by showing that the effects interpreted as imitation occur only for task relevant responses. This pattern lends itself to a different interpretation which is not related to imitation, automatic or otherwise, but rather to the general phenomenon of response compatibility effects. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved). |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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