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I see what you say: Prior knowledge of other's goals automatically biases the perception of their actions.
(2016-01)
We investigated whether top-down expectations about an actor's intentions affect action perception in a representational momentum (RM) paradigm. Participants heard an actor declare an intention to either take or leave an ...
One step ahead: The perceived kinematics of others' actions are biased toward expected goals.
(2016-01)
Action observation is often conceptualized in a bottom-up manner, where sensory information activates conceptual (or motor) representations. In contrast, here we show that expectations about an actor's goal have a top-down ...
The predictive mirror: interactions of mirror and affordance processes during action observation.
(2011-02)
An important question for the study of social interactions is how the motor actions of others are represented. Research has demonstrated that simply watching someone perform an action activates a similar motor representation ...
Focusing on body sites: the role of spatial attention in action perception.
(2007-04)
Humans use the same representations to code self-produced and observed actions. Neurophysiological evidence for this view comes from the discovery of the so-called mirror neurons in premotor cortex of the macaque monkey. ...
Cooperation of different neuronal systems during hand sign recognition.
(2004-09)
Hand signs with symbolic meaning can often be utilized more successfully than words to communicate an intention; however, the underlying brain mechanisms are undefined. The present study using magnetoencephalography (MEG) ...
"Feeling" others' painful actions: the sensorimotor integration of pain and action information.
(2013-08)
Sensorimotor regions of the brain have been implicated in simulation processes such as action understanding and empathy, but their functional role in these processes remains unspecified. We used functional magnetic resonance ...
Communicating hands: ERPs elicited by meaningful symbolic hand postures.
(2004-11-30)
Meaningful and meaningless hand postures were presented to subjects who had to carry out a semantic discrimination task while electrical brain responses were recorded. Both meaningful and control sets of hand postures were ...
Looking ahead: Anticipatory cueing of attention to objects others will look at.
(2016-01)
Seeing a face gaze at an object elicits rapid attention shifts toward the same object. We tested whether gaze cueing is predictive: do people shift their attention toward objects others are merely expected to look at? ...
Implicit action encoding influences personal-trait judgments.
(2007-02)
When an observed action (e.g., kicking) is compatible to a to be produced action (e.g., a foot-key response as compared to a finger-key response), then the self-produced action is more fluent, that is, it is more accurate ...
Action comprehension: deriving spatial and functional relations.
(2005-06)
A perceived action can be understood only when information about the action carried out and the objects used are taken into account. It was investigated how spatial and functional information contributes to establishing ...