The predictive mirror: interactions of mirror and affordance processes during action observation

Bach, Patric, Bayliss, Andrew P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4810-7758 and Tipper, Steven P. (2011) The predictive mirror: interactions of mirror and affordance processes during action observation. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 18 (1). pp. 171-176. ISSN 1531-5320

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Abstract

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 in oneself. Key issues include (1) the automaticity of such processes, and (2) the role object affordances play in establishing motor representations of others’ actions. Participants were asked to move a lever to the left or right to respond to the grip width of a hand moving across a workspace. Stimulus-response compatibility effects were modulated by two task-irrelevant aspects of the visual stimulus: the observed reach direction and the match between hand-grasp and the affordance evoked by an incidentally presented visual object. These findings demonstrate that the observation of another person’s actions automatically evokes sophisticated motor representations that reflect the relationship between actions and objects even when an action is not directed towards an object.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	compatibility,stimulus-response,action observation,object affordances,mirror neurons
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Psychology
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Social Cognition Research Group Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Cognition, Action and Perception Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Centres > Centre for Behavioural and Experimental Social Sciences
Depositing User:	Pure Connector
Date Deposited:	22 Oct 2015 14:00
Last Modified:	21 Apr 2023 23:55
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/54762
DOI:	10.3758/s13423-010-0029-x

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