Differential contributions of body form, motion, and temporal information to subjective action understanding in naturalistic stimuli.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

We investigated the factors underlying naturalistic action recognition and understanding, as well as the errors occurring during recognition failures.

Methods

Participants saw full-light stimuli of ten different whole-body actions presented in three different conditions: as normal videos, as videos with the temporal order of the frames scrambled, and as single static representative frames. After each stimulus presentation participants completed one of two tasks-a forced choice task where they were given the ten potential action labels as options, or a free description task, where they could describe the action performed in each stimulus in their own words.

Results

While generally, a combination of form, motion, and temporal information led to the highest

SUBMITTER: Smekal V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10963482 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature