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Publication Date: 2006-Jun
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Semantic Activation in Action Planning
Lindemann, Oliver; Stenneken, Prisca; van Schie, Hein T.; Bekkering, Harold
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, v32 n3 p633-643 Jun 2006
Four experiments investigated activation of semantic information in action preparation. Participants either prepared to grasp and use an object (e.g., to drink from a cup) or to lift a finger in association with the object's position following a go/no-go lexical-decision task. Word stimuli were consistent to the action goals of the object use (Experiment 1) or to the finger lifting (Experiment 2). Movement onset times yielded a double dissociation of consistency effects between action preparation and word processing. This effect was also present for semantic categorizations (Experiment 3), but disappeared when introducing a letter identification task (Experiment 4). In sum, our findings indicate that action semantics are activated selectively in accordance with the specific action intention of an actor.
Descriptors: Semantics, Decision Making, Verbal Stimuli, Classification, Identification, Psychomotor Skills, Motion, Intention, Receptive Language, Discrimination Learning, Association Measures
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