Macerollo, A;
Bose, S;
Ricciardi, L;
Edwards, MJ;
Kilner, JM;
(2015)
Linking differences in action perception with differences in action execution.
Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
, 10
(8)
pp. 1121-1127.
10.1093/scan/nsu161.
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Abstract
Successful human social interactions depend upon the transmission of verbal and non-verbal signals from one individual to another. Non-verbal social communication is realized through our ability to read and understand information present in other people's actions. It has been proposed that employing the same motor programs, we use to execute an action when observing the same action underlies this action understanding. The main prediction of this framework is that action perception should be strongly correlated with parameters of action execution. Here, we demonstrate that subjects' sensitivity to observed movement speeds is dependent upon how quickly they themselves executed the observed action. This result is consistent with the motor theory of social cognition and suggests that failures in non-verbal social interactions between individuals may in part result from differences in how those individuals move.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Linking differences in action perception with differences in action execution |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1093/scan/nsu161 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsu161 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © The Author (2015). Published by Oxford University Press. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
| Keywords: | mirror neurons, action observation, action perception, perception deficits, movement disorders |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology > Clinical and Movement Neurosciences |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1464894 |
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