ArticleJournal of experimental psychology. General2016
One step ahead: The perceived kinematics of others' actions are biased toward expected goals.
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- Relationships between the magnitude of representational momentum and the spatial and temporal anticipatory judgments of opponent's kicks in taekwondo.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Predictive action perception from explicit intention information in autism.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2021Article
- Action biases perceptual decisions toward expected outcomes.Journal of experimental psychology. General · 2021Article
- Temporal-order judgement task suggests chronological action representations in motor experts and non-experts.Quarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006) · 2020Article
- Affordance matching predictively shapes the perceptual representation of others' ongoing actions.Journal of experimental psychology. Human perception and performance · 2020Article
- Cues to intention bias action perception toward the most efficient trajectory.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- Outcome-Based Evaluations of Social Interaction Valence in a Contingent Response Context.Frontiers in psychology · 2019Article
- Perceptual teleology: expectations of action efficiency bias social perception.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2018Article
- Timing of grip and goal activation during action perception: a priming study.Experimental brain research · 2018Article
- Sociomotor action control.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2018Review
- Limb apraxia and the left parietal lobe.Handbook of clinical neurology · 2018Review
- The Things You Do: Internal Models of Others' Expected Behaviour Guide Action Observation.PloS one · 2016Article
- Joint Action: Mental Representations, Shared Information and General Mechanisms for Coordinating with Others.Frontiers in psychology · 2016Review
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Abstract
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 predictive effect on action perception, biasing it toward these goals. In 3 experiments, participants observed hands reach for or withdraw from objects and judged whether a probe stimulus corresponded to the hand's final position. Before action onset, participants generated action expectations on the basis of either object types (safe or painful, Experiments 1 and 2) or abstract color cues (Experiment 3). Participants more readily mistook probes displaced in a predicted position (relative to unpredicted positions) for the hand's final position, and this predictive bias was larger when the movement and expectation were aligned. These effects were evident for low-level movement and high-level goal expectancies. Expectations bias action observation toward the predicted goals. These results challenge current bottom-up views and support recent predictive models of action observation.
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