title: Through the portal: Effect anticipation in the central bottleneck.
abstract: Ample evidence suggests that motor actions are generated by mentally recollecting their sensory consequences, i.e., via effect anticipations. There is less evidence, though, on the capacity limitations that such effect anticipations suffer from. In the present paper we aim to overcome shortcomings of previous research on this issue by extending the set of empirical indicators of effect anticipations and by using trial-wise instead of block-wise manipulations. In four experiments using the locus of slack- and the effect propagation-logic, we found conclusive evidence for effect anticipation taking place in the capacity-limited central bottleneck. These findings extend previous research suggesting an overlap of a "response selection" process as assumed in traditional stage theory and effect anticipation processes as assumed in effect-based ideomotor models of action control.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg, Röntgenring 11, 97070 Würzburg, Germany. Electronic address: robert.wirth@uni-wuerzburg.de.
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Wirth
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg, Röntgenring 11, 97070 Würzburg, Germany.
authors.forename: Roland
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Pfister
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Schleichstraße 4, 72076 Tübingen, Germany.
authors.forename: Markus
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Janczyk
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg, Röntgenring 11, 97070 Würzburg, Germany.
authors.forename: Wilfried
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Kunde
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D059031:Anticipation, Psychological / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010775:Photic Stimulation / Q000379:methods*; D011597:Psychomotor Performance / Q000502:physiology*; D011930:Reaction Time / Q000502:physiology*
keywords: Action control; Action effects; Ideomotor theory; Movement trajectories; Psychological refractory period