Object-related action: Use of memory during-anticipation and performance

Consideration of the course of everyday actions Juring which real objects a re manipulated would suggest that the sequence of individual activities sho uld be represented in the memory not as a chain but as a network with:speci fic characteristics. These characteristics would appear to indicate that ac tivities which directly change parts of the environment are more memorable than shifts of attention during the performance of the action. The results of Experiment 1 support this view. Furthermore, it may be supposed that com plex actions are not anticipated in their entirety before being performed, but only partially. Hypotheses concerning the temporal order of the parts o f the anticipation process were tested in Experiment 2, the results support ing the hypotheses. Altogether, the results obtained confirm certain basic assumptions relating to the memory model Net of Recallable Action.