Contextualization in perception and action

it is proposed that cognitive representations of perceived and produced eve nts (i.e.. perception and action codes) are contextualized by integrating t hem with codes of events they accompany. Supporting empirical evidence comi ng from several lines of research is reviewed. Indeed, there is converging evidence that stimuli become integrated with the response and the task they signal or accompany, so that re-viewing a stimulus tends to re-activate th e previously related response and task. However, even though the integratio n of context events seems to occur automatically, it is affected by attenti onal control settings. A dimensional-priming model is suggested that can ac count for this interaction of automatic and attentional processes.