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Gepubliceerd in: Psychological Research 6/2012

01-11-2012 | Original Article

Action mirroring and action understanding: an ideomotor and attentional account

Auteur: Markus Paulus

Gepubliceerd in: Psychological Research | Uitgave 6/2012

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Abstract

Research over the last years has provided compelling evidence that the perception of an action leads to an activation of the perceiver’s own motor system. Furthermore, it has been suggested that such a mirroring process supports the understanding of the other’s action. However, the precise neurocognitive mechanisms behind this process remained unclear. Moreover, the hypothesis that activation in the motor system is directly related to the ascription of an intention to another person has been repeatedly criticized on conceptual grounds. This article suggests a conceptual framework that deals with both issues. Applying the ideomotor theory to the realm of action perception, it is suggested that the activation of one’s own motor system through the perception of another person’s action leads to an activation of the associated representation of the action’s typical effect. This activation, in turn, modulates (visual) attention and leads to a facilitated processing of potentially relevant information in the environment and may so contribute to action understanding.
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Following the terminology of Jacob (2009) that “a mindreader’s belief about an individual’s psychological state is a metarepresentation” (p. 230), the proposed model is a not-metarepresentational account. However, note that others have used this terminology differently. Perner (1991), for example, defines metarepresentation as the representation of a representational relation. The ascription of an intention to somebody else is, in this account, not a metarepresentation.
 
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It should be noted that in these studies a goal is commonly defined as an object or an arrangement of objects and leaves aside the possibility that also other kinds of actions can be goal-directed, e.g. stretching to release one’s muscles. It might thus be better to speak about object-directed actions.
 
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Metagegevens
Titel
Action mirroring and action understanding: an ideomotor and attentional account
Auteur
Markus Paulus
Publicatiedatum
01-11-2012
Uitgeverij
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Gepubliceerd in
Psychological Research / Uitgave 6/2012
Print ISSN: 0340-0727
Elektronisch ISSN: 1430-2772
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-011-0385-9

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