Anticipatory affect during action preparation: evidence from backward compatibility in dual-task performance
- 14 July 2016
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis Ltd in Cognition and Emotion
- Vol. 31 (6), 1211-1224
- https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2016.1208151
Abstract
Upcoming responses in the second of two subsequently performed tasks can speed up compatible responses in the temporally preceding first task. Two experiments extend previous demonstration of such backward compatibility to affective features: responses to affective stimuli were faster in Task 1 when an affectively compatible response effect was anticipated for Task 2. This emotional backward-compatibility effect demonstrates that representations of the affective consequences of the Task 2 response were activated before the selection of a response in Task 1 was completed. This finding is problematic for the assumption of a serial stimulus-response translation stage. It also shows that the affective consequence of a response is anticipated during, and has an impact on stimulus-response translation, which implies that action planning considers codes representing and predicting the emotional consequences of actions. Implications for the control of emotional actions are discussed.Keywords
Funding Information
- German Research Foundation (ED 201/2-2)
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