Temporal hierarchy of observed goal-directed actions.

ABSTRACT: During social interactions, we continuously integrate current and previous information over varying timescales to infer other people's action intentions. Motor cognition theories argue for a hierarchical organization of goal-directed actions based on temporal scales. Accordingly, transient motor primitives are represented at lower levels of the hierarchy, a combination of primitives building motor sequences at subordinate levels, and more stable overarching action goals at superordinate levels. A neural topography of hierarchal timescales for information accumulation was previously shown in the visual and auditory domains. However, whether such a temporal hierarchy can also account for observed goal-directed action representations in motor pathways remains to be determined. Thus, the curre

SUBMITTER: Aberbach-Goodman S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10640622 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature