I see where you're going : behavioral studies on the role of cognition in the perception of others' body movements
(2024)
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- The work conducted in this thesis aims to test whether knowledge of the biomechanical constraints of human bodies influences movement perception. In the first experimental chapter, we showed that knowledge of the biomechanical constraints influences judgments of the final position of moving bodies. In the second experimental chapter, we showed that knowledge of the biomechanical constraints influencing judgments of the final position of human bodies comes from models of how other bodies can move, learned by visual experience, rather than a model of how our own body moves. In the last experimental chapter, we showed that the effect of knowledge of the biomechanical constraints on perceptual judgments does not require consciousness about actors’ differential biomechanics and therefore does not originate from strategies consciously used by the participants to influence their judgments. Instead, our findings support the hypothesis that knowledge influences the perception of body movements.
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UCLouvain SSH/IPSY - Psychological Sciences Research Institute
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Vandenberghe, A. (2024). I see where you’re going : behavioral studies on the role of cognition in the perception of others’ body movements. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/233211