title: Action-induced effects on perception depend neither on element-level nor on set-level similarity between stimulus and response sets.
abstract: As was shown by Wykowska, Schubö, and Hommel (Journal of Experimental Psychology, Human Perception and Performance, 35, 1755-1769, 2009), action control can affect rather early perceptual processes in visual search: Although size pop-outs are detected faster when having prepared for a manual grasping action, luminance pop-outs benefit from preparing for a pointing action. In the present study, we demonstrate that this effect of action-target congruency does not rely on, or vary with, set-level similarity or element-level similarity between perception and action-two factors that play crucial roles in standard stimulus-response interactions and in models accounting for these interactions. This result suggests that action control biases perceptual processes in specific ways that go beyond standard stimulus-response compatibility effects and supports the idea that action-target congruency taps into a fundamental characteristic of human action control.
authors.affiliation: Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany. agnieszka.wykowska@psy.lmu.de
authors.forename: Agnieszka
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Wykowska
authors.forename: Bernhard
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Hommel
authors.forename: Anna
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Schubö
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001288:Attention; D003463:Cues; D003657:Decision Making; D004192:Discrimination, Psychological; D018737:Hand Strength; D006801:Humans; D009949:Orientation; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual; D011597:Psychomotor Performance; D011601:Psychophysics; D011930:Reaction Time; D012858:Size Perception; D055815:Young Adult