Towards an integrative approach to action observation processes
(2016)
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- This thesis aims to investigate whether observed action understanding benefits from integrative mechanisms exploiting different sources of information to approximate and anticipate the observed behaviors of others. We demonstrated evidence that observers are efficient at predicting, imitating, and understanding observed action goals, well before the action reaches the end goal. We advocate that for successful navigation within the social world, specialized mechanisms integrating different sources of information, and recruiting the observer’s motor system appears to provide the observer with an effective understanding of actions performed by others. The integration of different cues certainly occurs effortlessly in everyday life situations, but requires complex computations, involving the interplay between mirroring and additional inferential processes, that cannot be solely restricted to motor resources. Even though complementary work needs to be conducted, this thesis constitutes a first important step towards an integrative approach to action observation processes.
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Letesson, C. (2016). Towards an integrative approach to action observation processes. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/39481