Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: Stimulus-response and action-effect links are discussed in several paradigms in different fields of psychology and treated as separate conceptual entities. We criticize this separation. Ideomotor approaches like the Theory of Event Coding (Hommel et al., 2001) provide measures to unite and harmonize these research fields. In particular, the concept of event files, internal representations, that code stimulus, response, and effect features can connect still separate fields on human action in cognitive psychology. This is even more obvious, as the original ideomotor theory never separated perception and action the way it is done in contemporary research. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).
Source: Psychological Review
DOI: 10.1037/rev0000634
Authors: Christian Frings, Christian Beste
Institutions: Universität Trier, Technische Universität Dresden
Language: English
Topic: Free Will and Agency
Subfield: Cognitive Neuroscience
Field: Neuroscience
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W7165866287
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