Moving onwards: An action continuation strategy in finding the way

WAP Van Tilburg, ER Igou - Journal of behavioral decision …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
In four studies, we examined people's strategies when deciding between multiple routes of
equivalent length in way‐finding tasks. The results reveal the important role of continuing …

The role of effect grouping in free-choice response selection

M Janczyk, W Kunde - Acta Psychologica, 2014 - Elsevier
Which motor actions are preferred to replace an initially planned but momentary not
executable action? Previous research (Khan, Mourton, Buckolz, Adams, & Hayes, 2010 …

The Cost of Imagined Actions in a Reward-Valuation Task

M Sellitto, D Terenzi, F Starita, G di Pellegrino… - Brain Sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
Growing evidence suggests that humans and other animals assign value to a stimulus
based not only on its inherent rewarding properties, but also on the costs of the action …

Watching a real moving object expands tactile duration: The role of task-irrelevant action context for subjective time

L Jia, Z Shi, X Zang, HJ Müller - Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 2015 - Springer
Although it is well established that action contexts can expand the perceived durations of
action-related events, whether action contexts also impact the subjective duration of events …

Belief in control: Voluntary choice enhances subsequent task performance under undefeated choice-outcome causation

X Luo, L Wang, X Zhou - Cognition, 2022 - Elsevier
Humans have volition through which they act upon and change the external environment. As
an exercise of volition, making a voluntary choice facilitates subsequent behavioral …

We infer rather than perceive the moment we decided to act

WP Banks, EA Isham - Psychological science, 2009 - journals.sagepub.com
A seminal experiment found that the reported time of a decision to perform a simple action
was at least 300 ms after the onset of brain activity that normally preceded the action. In …

Rationalizing decision-making: understanding the cost and perception of time

VMK Namboodiri, S Mihalas, MGH Shuler - Timing & Time Perception …, 2014 - ugp.rug.nl
Humans, as with other animals, decide between courses of action based on the evaluation
of the relative worth of expected outcomes. How outcome magnitude interacts with temporal …

Stimulus probability effects on temporal bisection performance of mice (Mus musculus)

B Akdoğan, F Balcı - Animal cognition, 2016 - Springer
In the temporal bisection task, participants classify experienced stimulus durations as short
or long based on their temporal similarity to previously learned reference durations …

Age-correlated incremental consideration of velocity information in relative time-to-arrival judgments

B Keshavarz, K Landwehr, R Baurès… - Ecological …, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
One hundred fifty-one children and 43 adults judged which of 2 cartoon birds would be the
first to arrive at a common finish line. Objects moved unidirectionally along parallel …

Choosing the fastest movement: perceiving speed-accuracy tradeoffs

SJ Young, J Pratt, T Chau - Experimental brain research, 2008 - Springer
Several studies have shown that humans exhibit an intimate knowledge of prospective
motor actions when imagining and planning movements. To probe this knowledge, we used …