Both attention and action control research investigate the influence of previous actions on present events. However, so far both areas of research have not had much overlap. In action control, distractor-response binding effects have been described that show retrieval-based interference / benefit effects for later events based in irrelevant distractors. In attention research, dimension-repetition benefits have been described that show response benefits when responding repeatedly to the same feature dimension (e.g., color). These effects not only share the same abbreviations (DRB) but also appear to emerge from a similar source. In this talk we will present data that fits this narrative. Specifically, we applied modulations known from action control to typical dimension-repetition experiments.