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. 2008:2008:981-985.

Action Anticipation and Interference: A Test of Prospective Gaze

Erin N Cannon  1 , Amanda L Woodward  1
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Action Anticipation and Interference: A Test of Prospective Gaze

Erin N Cannon et al. Cogsci. 2008.

Abstract

In the current study we investigate the proposal that one aspect of social perception, action anticipation, involves the recruitment of representations for self-produced action. An eye tracking paradigm was implemented to measure prospective gaze to a goal while performing either a motor or working memory task. Results indicate an effect of the motor task, suggesting the interference of a shared motor and action perception representation.

Keywords: Action Perception; Eye tracking; Motor representation; Working Memory.

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Figure 1
Define Areas of Interest (AOIs) within the scene. Start AOI encompassed the balls, the Trajectory AOI encompassed the region between the balls and the bucket, and the Goal AOI was the region surrounding the bucket.
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Figure 2
Mean Gaze Arrival to the Goal AOI relative to the Ball Arrival for all trials across conditions
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Figure 3
Mean Gaze Arrival to the Goal AOI relative to the Ball Arrival for the first and last two trials across conditions.
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