title: Assimilation and contrast: the two sides of specific interference between action and perception.
abstract: Perception and action have long been treated as relatively independent and serial processes. More recent views, however, consider perception and action as relying on a common set of processes and/or representations. The present paper will focus on a variety of specific (content-based) perception-action interactions that have been taken as support for such views. In particular, the following aspects will be considered: direction of influence (perception on action vs. action on perception), temporal type (concurrent vs. non-concurrent), functional relation (related/unrelated), and type of movements (biological vs. non-biological). Different extant models of the perception-action interface are discussed and a classification schema proposed that tries to explain when contrast and when assimilation effects will arise.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany. Jan.Zwickel@psy.lmu.de
authors.forename: Jan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zwickel
authors.forename: Wolfgang
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Prinz
mesh_terms: D001288:Attention / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D033182:Intention; D009068:Movement / Q000502:physiology*; D010465:Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D011597:Psychomotor Performance / Q000502:physiology*