Abstract (may include machine translation)
This chapter provides an overview of the evidence suggesting that action perception depends upon the interplay of perceptual and motor processes and discusses the implications of such perception-action coupling. The existence of the mirror neuron system, the impact of motor expertise on action perception, and the influence of motor constraints on action perception are discussed as support for the common coding hypothesis. The coupling of the perception and action systems also allows observers to accurately predict the actions of others and to differentiate self-generated from othergenerated actions.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | People Watching |
Subtitle of host publication | Social, Perceptual, and Neurophysiological Studies of Body Perception |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 101–118 |
Number of pages | 18 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9780199979271 |
ISBN (Print) | 9780195393705 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 24 Jan 2013 |
Keywords
- Action perception
- Auditory perception
- Common coding
- Embodied perception
- Expertise
- Ideomotor principle
- Kinematics
- Perception-action coupling
- Perceptual prediction
- Simulation theory