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Previous work indicates that action-control processes influence perceptual processes: The identification probability of a left- or right-pointing arrow is reduced when it appears during the execution of a compatible left-right-key press (Müsseler & Hommel, in press). The present study addresses the question of whether this effect would also be observed in a detection task—that is, with judgments that do not require discriminating between left- and right-pointing arrows. Indeed, we found comparable effects in both the identification task and the detection task. This outcome is interpreted within a commoncoding framework, which holds that stimulus processing and action control operate on the same codes.
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This research was supported by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft Grant Mu 1298/2-1 to the first author. The authors wish to thank Addie Ehrenstein for valuable comments, Birgitt Aßfalg for carrying out the experiments, and Heidi John for stylistic suggestions.
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Müsseler, J., Hommel, B. Detecting and identifying response-compatible stimuli. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review 4, 125–129 (1997). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03210785
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03210785