@article{ref1,
title="Action representations in prevention behavior: evidence from motor execution",
journal="Cognition",
year="2023",
author="Tonn, Solveig and Schaaf, Moritz and Kunde, Wilfried and Pfister, Roland",
volume="234",
number="",
pages="e105370-e105370",
abstract="Human actions sometimes aim at preventing an event from occurring. How these to-be-prevented events are represented, however, is poorly understood. Recent proposals in the literature point to a possible divide between effect-producing, operant actions, and effect-precluding, prevention actions, suggesting that the control of operant actions relies on codes of environment-related effects whereas prevention actions do not. Here we report two experiments on this issue, showing that spatial features (Experiment 1) as well as temporal features (Experiment 2) of to-be-prevented events influence actions in the same way as corresponding features of to-be-produced effects. This implies that selecting and executing prevention actions relies on anticipated environmental changes, comparable to operant actions.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0010-0277",
doi="10.1016/j.cognition.2023.105370",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2023.105370"
}