期刊
PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE
卷 24, 期 6, 页码 828-835出版社
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/0956797612459766
关键词
infant development; social cognition; goals; action understanding; neuroimaging
资金
- Wellcome Trust [088427/Z/09/Z] Funding Source: Medline
- Wellcome Trust [088427/Z/09/Z] Funding Source: Wellcome Trust
Although it is undeniable that the motor system is recruited when people observe others' actions, the inferences that the brain generates from motor activation and the mechanisms involved in the motor system's recruitment are still unknown. Here, we challenged the popular hypothesis that motor involvement in action observation enables the observer to identify and predict an agent's goal by matching observed actions with existing and corresponding motor representations. Using a novel neural indication of action predictionsensorimotor-cortex activation measured by electroencephalographywe demonstrated that 9-month-old infants recruit their motor system whenever a context suggests an impending action, but that this recruitment is not dependent on being able to match the observed action with a corresponding motor representation. Our data are thus inconsistent with the view that action prediction depends on motor correspondence; instead, they support an alternative view in which motor activation is the result of, rather than the cause of, goal identification.
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