Understanding the Goals of Everyday Instrumental Actions Is Primarily Linked to Object, Not Motor-Kinematic, Information: Evidence from fMRI
dc.contributor.author | Nicholson, T | |
dc.contributor.author | Roser, ME | |
dc.contributor.author | Bach, Patric | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-01-31T11:33:17Z | |
dc.date.available | 2017-01-31T11:33:17Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2017-01-12 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1932-6203 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1932-6203 | |
dc.identifier.other | ARTN e0169700 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/8337 | |
dc.description.abstract |
Prior research conceptualised action understanding primarily as a kinematic matching of observed actions to own motor representations but has ignored the role of object information. The current study utilized fMRI to identify (a) regions uniquely involved in encoding the goal of others' actions, and (b) to test whether these goal understanding processes draw more strongly on regions involved in encoding object semantics or movement kinematics. Participants watched sequences of instrumental actions while attending to either the actions' goal (goal task), the movements performed (movement task) or the objects used (object task). The results confirmed, first, a unique role of the inferior frontal gyrus, middle temporal gyrus and medial frontal gyrus in action goal understanding. Second, they show for the first time that activation in the goal task overlaps directly with object- but not movement-related activation. Moreover, subsequent parametric analyses revealed that movement-related regions become activated only when goals are unclear, or observers have little action experience. In contrast to motor theories of action understanding, these data suggest that objects-rather than movement kinematics-carry the key information about others' actions. Kinematic information is additionally recruited when goals are ambiguous or unfamiliar. | |
dc.format.extent | e0169700-e0169700 | |
dc.format.medium | Electronic-eCollection | |
dc.language | en | |
dc.language.iso | en | |
dc.publisher | Public Library of Science (PLoS) | |
dc.subject | Adult | |
dc.subject | Behavior | |
dc.subject | Biomechanical Phenomena | |
dc.subject | Brain | |
dc.subject | Brain Mapping | |
dc.subject | Humans | |
dc.subject | Magnetic Resonance Imaging | |
dc.subject | Male | |
dc.subject | Movement | |
dc.subject | Prefrontal Cortex | |
dc.subject | Task Performance and Analysis | |
dc.subject | Temporal Lobe | |
dc.subject | Young Adult | |
dc.title | Understanding the Goals of Everyday Instrumental Actions Is Primarily Linked to Object, Not Motor-Kinematic, Information: Evidence from fMRI | |
dc.type | journal-article | |
dc.type | Journal Article | |
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plymouth.issue | 1 | |
plymouth.volume | 12 | |
plymouth.publication-status | Published | |
plymouth.journal | PLOS ONE | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1371/journal.pone.0169700 | |
plymouth.organisational-group | /Plymouth | |
plymouth.organisational-group | /Plymouth/Faculty of Health | |
plymouth.organisational-group | /Plymouth/Faculty of Health/School of Psychology | |
plymouth.organisational-group | /Plymouth/REF 2021 Researchers by UoA | |
plymouth.organisational-group | /Plymouth/REF 2021 Researchers by UoA/UoA04 Psychology, Psychiatry and Neuroscience | |
plymouth.organisational-group | /Plymouth/Research Groups | |
plymouth.organisational-group | /Plymouth/Research Groups/Centre for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour (CBCB) | |
plymouth.organisational-group | /Plymouth/Research Groups/Centre for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour (CBCB)/Brain | |
plymouth.organisational-group | /Plymouth/Users by role | |
plymouth.organisational-group | /Plymouth/Users by role/Academics | |
dc.publisher.place | United States | |
dcterms.dateAccepted | 2016-12-20 | |
dc.identifier.eissn | 1932-6203 | |
dc.rights.embargoperiod | Not known | |
rioxxterms.versionofrecord | 10.1371/journal.pone.0169700 | |
rioxxterms.licenseref.uri | http://www.rioxx.net/licenses/all-rights-reserved | |
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate | 2017-01-12 | |
rioxxterms.type | Journal Article/Review | |
plymouth.funder | One step ahead: Prediction of other people's behavior in healthy and autistic individuals.::ESRC | |
plymouth.oa-location | http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0169700 |