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ReviewPsychonomic bulletin & review2018

Motivational sensitivity of outcome-response priming: Experimental research and theoretical models.

Poppy Watson, Reinout W Wiers, Bernhard Hommel, Sanne de Wit

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Review in Psychonomic bulletin & review, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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11 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors.

Poppy WatsonADAPT lab, Department of Developmental Psychology, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Reinout W WiersADAPT lab, Department of Developmental Psychology, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Bernhard HommelCognitive Psychology Unit, Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands.
Sanne de WitAmsterdam Brain and Cognition, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands. s.dewit@uva.nl.

Funding

Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek 433-09-243
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Outcome-response (O-R) priming is at the core of various associative theories of human intentional action. This is a simple and parsimonious mechanism by which activation of outcome representations (e.g. thinking about the light coming on) leads to activation of the associated motor patterns required to achieve it (e.g. pushing the light switch). In the current manuscript, we review the evidence for such O-R associative links demonstrated by converging (yet until now, separate) strands of research. While there is a wealth of evidence that both the perceptual and motivational properties of an outcome can be encoded in the O-R association and mediate O-R priming, we critically examine the integration of these mechanisms and the conditions under which motivational factors constrain the sensory O-R priming effect. We discuss the clinical relevance of this O-R priming mechanism, whether it can satisfactorily account for human goal-directed behaviour, and the implications for theories of human action control.

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Association LearningIntentionMemoryModels, TheoreticalMotivationMotor ActivityConditioning, ClassicalConditioning, OperantFemaleGoalsHumansPsychological TheoryTransfer, PsychologyGoal-directed actionIdeomotor theoryMotivationPavlovian-to-instrumental transferResponse priming

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PMID29468416
PMCPMC6267533

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