@article{ref1,
title="Dual-action costs and benefits in a uni-modal single-onset paradigm",
journal="Experimental psychology",
year="2023",
author="Raettig, Tim and Huestegge, Lynn",
volume="70",
number="6",
pages="344-354",
abstract="While performing two actions at the same time has mostly been associated with reduced performance, several recent studies have observed the opposite effect, that is, dual-action benefits. Previous evidence suggests that dual-action benefits result from single-action inhibitory costs - more specifically, it appears that under certain circumstances, single-action representations are derived from dual-action representations by removing (i.e., inhibiting) one of the component actions. In the present paper, we investigated if this is tied to the presence of multi-modal response demands (i.e., responses making use of two different effector systems). We implemented a very simple experimental paradigm where participants responded to a single stimulus with zero, one, or two uni-modal responses. As predicted, we did not observe dual-action benefits, but rather significant dual-action costs. Furthermore, a trial-by-trial sequence analysis revealed that alternations between both single-action responses were associated with significantly better performance than all other types of action switches. This can be accounted for by assuming that actions are represented as &quot;feature bundles&quot; and that switching a single, binary distinctive feature of an action to its opposite is relatively easy.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1618-3169",
doi="10.1027/1618-3169/a000604",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1027/1618-3169/a000604"
}