Thoughts About "Thoughts About Actions and Outcomes": Comment on Custers (2023)

Custers (2023) provides an inspiring and to some extent critical review of evidence in the realm of ideomotor action control. The main part of the review consists of an evidence-based reinterpretation of results obtained with an experimental paradigm termed "induction paradigm." Moreover, the broader implications of this interpretation for understanding goal-oriented action in general are outlined. We appreciate the review as it helps to identify crucial open questions. In this present comment though, we have a look at the presented critical evidence, and we suggest that considerable parts of the ensuing critique have already been picked up and paved the way for rigorous empirical research, thereby inspiring a more optimistic future of research on ideomotor action control.