Recognition of self-generated actions from kinematic displays of drawing

Günther Knoblich*, Wolfgang Prinz

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Abstract (may include machine translation)

Five experiments addressed the question of whether individuals can distinguish between self-generated and other-generated actions when seeing their visual effects. Each experiment consisted of a recording session in which participants drew familiar and unfamiliar characters without receiving visual feedback and a recognition session in which they provided self-or-other judgments (SOJs) to indicate whether a kinematic display reproduced the visual effects of their own actions. The main results were that self-generated and other-generated drawing can be distinguished, that the familiarity of character shapes does not influence the accuracy of SOJs, and that velocity information is crucial for the identification of self-generated drawing. The ability to determine authorship from kinematic displays of drawing provides evidence for the contribution of action-planning structures to perception.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)456-465
Number of pages10
JournalJournal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance
Volume27
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - Apr 2001
Externally publishedYes

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