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Ideomotor perception modulates visuospatial cueing
- Source :
- Psychological research. 77(5)
- Publication Year :
- 2012
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Abstract
- The ideomotor theory of action posits that the cognitive representation of an action includes the learned perceptual effects of the action. Support for this theory has come from studies demonstrating how perceptual features that match the outcome of a response can facilitate selection of that response. We investigated another, complementary implication of ideomotor theory: would a bias toward selecting a response result in a perceptual bias toward the known effect of the response? In other words, would an action tendency direct attention to the anticipated perceptual features? Through an initial acquisition phase, participants learned that two possible responses (left/right keypress) consistently produced two distinct colors. Next, in a test phase, we manipulated response bias at the beginning of each trial, using an uninformative spatial prime presented at the left or right periphery. We then examined the extent to which color transients that either matched or mismatched the induced response bias can orient participants’ visual attention. Results revealed a perceptual bias toward the color effect of the primed response, manifested in a stronger visual orienting toward this color. Thus, biasing response selection can bias perception. These findings extend the scope of the ideomotor theory to visual perceptual processes.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Visual perception
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Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Visual orientation
Random Allocation
Young Adult
Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
Perception
Developmental and Educational Psychology
Selection (linguistics)
Humans
Learning
Attention
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Psychological research
Cognition
General Medicine
Response bias
Action (philosophy)
Space Perception
Cues
Psychology
Psychological Theory
Color Perception
Cognitive psychology
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14302772
- Volume :
- 77
- Issue :
- 5
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Psychological research
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....0c986e70e486eb2820adeeeaa047f724