Actions that consistently yield the same effects become bound to these effects within action-effect bindings/associations that allow for long(er)-term retrieval. These action-effect bindings are bi-directional. That is, the anticipation of desired future effects allows us to select actions bound to them. Importantly, anticipated future effects also proactively direct our attention towards them even before they appear, as anticipatory saccades towards the predictable locations of future effects confirm. These anticipatory saccades enable us to investigate, for instance, which features of future effects (e.g., effect location and timing) become bound to the respective effect-causing actions, how often actions and effects need to be paired for action-effect bindings to emerge and to be updated, and how anticipated effect features impact on action selection. Here, I will summarize first conclusions on action-effect binding drawn based on anticipatory saccades, focusing on the formation and updating of bindings and corresponding inferences regarding their representation in memory.