Perceptual accounts attribute the Simon effect to the correlation between relevant stimulus
feature and response location (eg, T. Hasbroucq & Y. Guiard, 1991). This account is …

Pictures of handled objects such as a beer mug or frying pan are shown to prime speeded
reach and grasp actions that are compatible with the object. To determine whether the …

Voluntary actions are guided by sensory anticipations of body-related as well as
environment-related action effects. Even though action effects in the environment typically …

The authors examined whether instructions can lead to autonomous response activation
even without practice. Eriksen and Eriksen's (1974) flanker compatibility paradigm was used …

The current article discusses the distinction between affective valence—the degree to which
an affective response represents pleasure or displeasure—and semantic valence, the …

There has long been need for a behavioural intervention that attenuates cue-evoked drug-
seeking, but the optimal method remains obscure. To address this, we report three …

The last decades have seen a growing interest in the impact of action on perception and
other concurrent cognitive processes. One particularly interesting example is that manual …

We tested the independent influences of two content-based factors on dual-task costs, and
on the parallel processing ability: The pairing of S–R modalities and the pairing of relevant …

Human skilled behavior requires preparatory processes that selectively make sensory and
motor systems more efficient for perceiving the upcoming stimulus and performing the …

Handedness is most often measured by questionnaires that assess an individual's
preference for using a particular hand to perform a variety of tasks. While such assessments …