Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Tsai, Chia-Chin
• Kuo, Wen-Jui
• Hung, Daisy L.
• Tzeng, Ovid J. L.

Titel

Action Co-representation is Tuned to Other Humans

Ist Teil von

• Journal of cognitive neuroscience, 2008-11, Vol.20 (11), p.2015-2024

Ort / Verlag

One Rogers Street, Cambridge, MA 02142-1209, USA: MIT Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2008

Quelle

Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The present study attempts to explore the process by which knowledge of another's intentional behavior in a joint-action scenario is represented through the action observation and execution network—also known as the common coding system. Participants ( = 18) were instructed to perform the complementary social Simon task under the implemented belief of interaction with either an unseen human (biological agent) or a computer program, where in fact, all response sequences from either “partner” were generated by computer. Results provide behavioral and neurophysiological evidence (P3 and S-LRP) that the believed intentionality of another person's actions is sufficient to facilitate a strong-enough agency-dependent social Simon effect to modulate action planning and anticipation. We suggest that the co-representation of human action may be an evolved biologically tuned default of the human motor system.