title: Instant attraction: immediate action-effect bindings occur for both, stimulus- and goal-driven actions.
abstract: Flexible behavior is only possible if contingencies between own actions and following environmental effects are acquired as quickly as possible; and recent findings indeed point toward an immediate formation of action-effect bindings already after a single coupling of an action and its effect. The present study explored whether these short-term bindings occur for both, stimulus- and goal-driven actions ("forced-choice actions" vs. "free-choice actions"). Two experiments confirmed that immediate action-effect bindings are formed for both types of actions and affect upcoming behavior. These findings support the view that action-effect binding is a ubiquitous phenomenon which occurs for any type of action.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology III, University of Würzburg, Röntgenring Würzburg, Germany.
authors.forename: Markus
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Janczyk
authors.forename: Alexander
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Heinemann
authors.forename: Roland
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Pfister
keywords: action planning; action-effects; binding; forced-choice; free-choice; ideomotor theory