The tiger on your tail: Choosing between temporally extended behaviors

DA Rosenbaum - Psychological Science, 2012 - journals.sagepub.com
The time spent choosing between temporally extended behaviors cannot, in general, last as
long as the behaviors themselves; otherwise, the tiger on your tail would have you for lunch …

Human strategies for solving a time-place learning task: The role of counting and following verbal cues

D García-Gallardo, F Aguilar, B Armenta, C Carpio - Behavioural processes, 2015 - Elsevier
Two experiments were conducted to assess the emergence of time-place learning in
humans. In experiment 1, a computer based software was designed in which participants …

Effects of affordance perception on the initiation and actualization of action

J Smith, GJ Pepping - Ecological Psychology, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
Studies have shown information specifying some affordances may be faster or easier to
perceive than others. This article investigates the effect of affordance perception on the time …

The unfolding action model of initiation times, movement times, and movement paths.

CB Calderon, W Gevers, T Verguts - Psychological review, 2018 - psycnet.apa.org
Converging evidence has led to a consensus in favor of computational models of behavior
implementing continuous information flow and parallel processing between cognitive …

Motor decisions are not black and white: selecting actions in the “gray zone”

DM Comalli, D Persand, KE Adolph - Experimental brain research, 2017 - Springer
In many situations, multiple actions are possible to achieve a goal. How do people select a
particular action among equally possible alternatives? In six experiments, we determined …

Deciding when to “cash in” when outcomes are continuously improving: An escalating interest task

ME Young, TL Webb, EA Jacobs - Behavioural processes, 2011 - Elsevier
A first-person shooter video game was adapted for the study of choice between smaller
sooner and larger later outcomes. Participants chose when to fire a weapon that increased …

[HTML][HTML] Catching ease influences perceived speed: Evidence for action-specific effects from action-based measures

JK Witt, M Sugovic - Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 2013 - Springer
According to the action-specific account of perception, people perceive the environment in
terms of their ability to act. Here, we directly tested this claim by using an action-based …

[HTML][HTML] Now and then: Hand choice is influenced by recent action history

KF Valyear, AM Fitzpatrick, NM Dundon - Psychonomic bulletin & review, 2019 - Springer
Action choices are influenced by recent past and predicted future action states. Here, we
demonstrate that recent hand-choice history affects both current hand choices and response …

[HTML][HTML] Reaction time coupling in a joint stimulus-response task: A matter of functional actions or likable agents?

Z Schielen, J Verhaegh, C Dijkerman, M Naber - Plos one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Shaping one owns actions by observing others' actions is driven by the deep-rooted
mechanism of perception-action coupling. It typically occurs automatically, expressed as for …

[HTML][HTML] Action control costs in task selection: Agents avoid actions with incompatible movement and effect features

B Neszmélyi, R Pfister - Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 2024 - Springer
When a movement triggers effects with incompatible features, conflict between action and
effect features creates costs for action planning and initiation. We investigated whether such …