An Information-Based Approach to Action Understanding

Autor/inn/en	Ramenzoni, Veronica C.; Riley, Michael A.; Shockley, Kevin; Davis, Tehran
Titel	An Information-Based Approach to Action Understanding
Quelle	In: Cognition, 106 (2008) 2, S.1059-1070 (12 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0010-0277
DOI	10.1016/j.cognition.2007.04.008
Schlagwörter	Body Height; Action Research; Evaluative Thinking; Eye Movements; Prediction; Cognitive Processes + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Körpergröße; Projektforschung; Augenbewegung; Vorhersage; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess
Abstract	It has been proposed that the ability to make sense of other agents' behavior relies on the activation of internal mechanisms that map action perception onto action execution. In this study we explored the constraints on this ability introduced by eyeheight-scaled information in the optic array. Short and tall participants provided maximum overhead reaching judgments for themselves and another participant. Perceptual information was manipulated by changing the participants' optically specified eyeheight. Observers were modestly accurate in perceiving maximum overhead reach for themselves and for another actor whose action capabilities differed. Perceived maximum overhead reach increased for both self- and other-judgments when the perceiver's eyeheight was increased. The results suggest an important role of perceptual information that has gone unrecognized in existing accounts of action understanding and prediction. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10