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Temporary stimulus-response binding as a mechanism in incidental association learning II

Subject Area General, Cognitive and Mathematical Psychology
Term from 2014 to 2025
Project identifier Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 269503548
 
Final Report Year 2025

Final Report Abstract

Two important areas for the study of human action control focus on (1) individual completed actions and bindings between stimuli and responses of the action episode and (2) learning mechanisms that support actions in recurrent situations. There are good reasons to assume that the integration of individual action plans is closely linked to the incidental learning of connections between our actions and situational features. However, there is also evidence that the corresponding mechanisms function largely independently of each other. The questions of whether attachment mechanisms are fundamentally distinguishable from learning mechanisms in the control of individual actions and to what extent there may be reciprocal influences between the mechanisms have not yet been clarified. First, we were able to show that binding processes and processes of incidental association learning are similar with regard to some properties, but can nevertheless be clearly differentiated. We also found evidence of reciprocal influences between the processes. Furthermore, we were able to show that individual actions can be linked to each other in a similar way to stimuli and reactions. This result is particularly relevant with regard to hierarchical structures in action control and habit formation. In turn, the structures and properties of these bonds between temporally distributed actions were investigated in more detail and linked to learning mechanisms.

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