How Perception Guides Action: Figure-Ground Segmentation Modulates Integration of Context Features into S-R Episodes

Autor/inn/en	Frings, Christian; Rothermund, Klaus
Titel	How Perception Guides Action: Figure-Ground Segmentation Modulates Integration of Context Features into S-R Episodes
Quelle	In: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 43 (2017) 11, S.1720-1729 (10 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0278-7393
DOI	10.1037/xlm0000403
Schlagwörter	Stimuli; Responses; Foreign Countries; College Students; Color; Visual Perception; Multivariate Analysis; Reaction Time; Experiments; Germany + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Anreizsystem; Ausland; Collegestudent; Colour; Farbbezeichnung; Farbe; Visuelle Wahrnehmung; Multivariate Analyse; Reaktionsvermögen; Erprobung; Deutschland
Abstract	Perception and action are closely related. Responses are assumed to be represented in terms of their perceptual effects, allowing direct links between action and perception. In this regard, the integration of features of stimuli (S) and responses (R) into S-R bindings is a key mechanism for action control. Previous research focused on the integration of object features with response features while neglecting the context in which an object is perceived. In 3 experiments, we analyzed whether contextual features can also become integrated into S-R episodes. The data showed that a fundamental principle of visual perception, figure-ground segmentation, modulates the binding of contextual features. Only features belonging to the figure region of a context but not features forming the background were integrated with responses into S-R episodes, retrieval of which later on had an impact upon behavior. Our findings suggest that perception guides the selection of context features for integration with responses into S-R episodes. Results of our study have wide-ranging implications for an understanding of context effects in learning and behavior. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01