Hudson, Matthew, Nicholson, Toby, Simpson, William A, Ellis, Rob and Bach, Patric
(2016)
One step ahead: The perceived kinematics of others’ actions are biased toward expected goals.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 145 (1).
pp. 1-7.
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.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | representational momentum, action prediction, predictive coding, mirror neurons, prediction error |
| Depositing User: | Symplectic Admin |
| Date Deposited: | 06 Jan 2020 11:15 |
| Last Modified: | 17 Mar 2024 23:33 |
| DOI: | 10.1037/xge0000126 |
| Open Access URL: | https://psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/2015-52471-001.ht... |
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| URI: | https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3069370 |
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