According to ideomotor accounts, actions are cognitively represented by their sensory effects. The response-effect compatibility (R-E compatibility) paradigm investigates this notion by presenting predictable effect stimuli that are produced by the response (“response effects”). The R-E compatibility effect denotes the finding of better performance in R-E compatible conditions than in incompatible conditions, suggesting that anticipation of the effect stimulus primes the response. Most previous studies employed perceptual R-E overlap manipulations (e.g., spatial, temporal or phonological overlap of response and predictable response effect). In the present study, we examined verbal-semantic response-effect overlap. In Experiment 1, we used category words as vocal responses and semantically associated vs. non-associated exemplar words for auditory response effects (or exemplar words as responses and category words as effects, respectively) to manipulate verbal-semantic R-E overlap without perceptual-phonological similarity. In Experiments 2A and 2B, we used the response word also as an “identical” auditory effect word (i.e., both verbal-semantic and perceptual-phonological R-E overlap). An R-E compatibility effect was observed only when there was both verbal-semantic and perceptual-phonological R-E overlap. These data suggest that anticipation of perceptual response features may be critical in the R-E compatibility paradigm, whereas the role of verbal-semantic processes in response-effect anticipation still needs to be established more firmly. We discuss how perceptual and conceptual processes can interact in ideomotor control of action.

根据意识运动的说法，动作由其感官作用在认知上代表。响应效果兼容性（RE兼容性）范式通过呈现响应产生的可预测效果刺激（“响应效果”）来研究此概念。RE相容效应表明在RE相容条件下比在不相容条件下具有更好的性能，这表明预期效果刺激会引发反应。以前的大多数研究都采用了感知性RE重叠操作（例如，响应和可预测的响应效果的空间，时间或语音重叠）。在本研究中，我们检查了言语语义反应效应重叠。在实验1中，我们将类别词用作语音回应，并在语义上与vs.进行了对比。非关联示例词，用于听觉响应效果（或示例词分别作为响应，类别词分别作为效果），以​​操纵言语语义RE重叠，而没有感知语音的相似性。在实验2A和2B中，我们也将响应词用作“相同的”听觉效果词（即，言语语义和听觉语音RE重叠）。仅当言语语义和知觉语音RE重叠时，才观察到RE相容性效果。这些数据表明，在RE相容性范式中，预期感知响应特征可能很关键，而言语-语义过程在响应效果预测中的作用仍需要更牢固地确立。我们讨论了知觉和概念过程如何在动作的意识运动控制中相互作用。