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Proactive gaze is present during biological and non-biological motion observation

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卷 206, 期 -, 页码 -

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DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2020.104461

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Eye movements; Biological motion perception; Action anticipation; Predictive eye movements; Point-light-displays; Motor resonance

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  1. Ministero dell'Istruzione dell'Universita e della Ricerca, MIUR, Programmi di Ricerca Scientifica di Rilevante Interesse Nazionale (PRIN) PRIN 2010-2011 [2010XPMFW4_002]
  2. Regione Emilia-Romagna (Delibera di Giunta Regionale) [1786/2012]
  3. Programma di Ricerca Regione Universita 2010-2012
  4. University of Ferrara (FAR)

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The study found that observers exhibit proactive gaze when observing both biological and non-biological motions, even in the presence of barriers. Proactive gaze is also present when an object is present at the end point of the movement trajectory. Therefore, the involvement of the observer's motor system is not only dependent on the natural kinematics of the agent, but also on the presence of a goal or agent.
Others' action observation activates in the observer a coordinated hand-eye motor program, covert for the hand (i.e. motor resonance), and overt for the eye (i.e. proactive gaze), similar to that of the observed agent. The biological motion hypothesis of action anticipation claims that proactive gaze occurs only in the presence of biological motion, and that kinematic information is sufficient to determine the anticipation process. The results of the present study did not support the biological motion hypothesis of action anticipation. Specifically, proactive gaze was present during observation of both a biological accelerated-decelerated motion and a non-biological constant velocity motion (Experiment 1), in the presence of a barrier able to restrict differences between the two kinematics to the motion profile of individual markers prior to contact (Experiment 2), but only if an object was present at the end point of the movement trajectory (Experiment 3). Furthermore, proactive gaze was found independently of the presence of end effects temporally congruent with the instant in which the movement stopped (Experiments 4, and 5). We propose that the involvement of the observer's motor system is not restricted to when the agent moves with natural kinematics, and it is mandatory whenever the presence of an agent or a goal is evident, regardless of physical appearance, natural kinematics, and the possibility to identify the action behind the stimulus.

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