Learning associations between action and perception: Effects of incompatible training on body part and spatial priming

Wiggett, Alison J., Hudson, Matthew, Tipper, Steven P. and Downing, Paul E. (2011) Learning associations between action and perception: Effects of incompatible training on body part and spatial priming. Brain and Cognition, 76 (1). pp. 87-96. ISSN 0278-2626

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Abstract

Observation of another person executing an action primes the same action in the observer’s motor system. Recent evidence has shown that these priming effects are flexible, where training of new associations, such as making a foot response when viewing a moving hand, can reduce standard action priming effects (Gillmeister, Catmur, Liepelt, Brass, & Heyes, 2008). Previously, these effects were obtained after explicit learning tasks in which the trained action was cued by the content of a visual stimulus. Here we report similar learning processes in an implicit task in which the participant’s action is self-selected, and subsequent visual effects are determined by the nature of that action. Importantly, we show that these learning processes are specific to associations between actions and viewed body parts, in that incompatible spatial training did not influence body part or spatial priming effects. Our results are consistent with models of visuomotor learning that place particular emphasis on the repeated experience of watching oneself perform an action.

Item Type:	Article
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > Psychology B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > Psychology > Cognition
Divisions:	School of Business > Staff Research and Publications
Depositing User:	Caoimhe Ní Mhaicín
Date Deposited:	03 Oct 2018 09:04
Last Modified:	03 Oct 2018 09:04
URI:	https://norma.ncirl.ie/id/eprint/3225

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