Thomaschke, Roland and Dreisbach, Gesine (2013) Temporal Predictability Facilitates Action, Not Perception. PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE, 24 (7). pp. 1335-1340. ISSN 0956-7976, 1467-9280
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Expectancy for upcoming action requirements is a fundamental prerequisite for human control of action. In the research reported here, we investigated which part of cognitive processing benefits from temporal predictability. In a binary forced-choice paradigm, visual targets were preceded by different intervals. In one condition, targets could be predicted by the length of the intervals. In other conditions, response goals or response effectors could be predicted by the length of the intervals. Behavioral advantages were observed when response effectors were temporally predictable, whereas temporal predictability of response goals and target stimuli was not sufficient. The findings thus show that temporal expectancy in speeded choice-reaction tasks facilitates late, effector-specific motor processing. These findings are of importance not only for our basic understanding of action control but also for any human-machine interaction that involves system delays.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | VARIABLE FOREPERIOD PARADIGM; EXPECTANCY EVIDENCE; TIME; INFORMATION; CONSOLIDATION; INFERENCES; BRAIN; time estimation; time perception; motor processes; attention; temporal frequency |
| Subjects: | 100 Philosophy & psychology > 150 Psychology |
| Divisions: | Human Sciences > Institut für Psychologie > Lehrstuhl für Psychologie II (Allgemeine und Angewandte Psychologie) - Prof. Dr. Gesine Dreisbach |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Gernot Deinzer |
| Date Deposited: | 07 Apr 2020 08:39 |
| Last Modified: | 07 Apr 2020 08:39 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/16449 |
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