Communicative modulations of early action components support the prediction of distal goals.

ABSTRACT: The successful unfolding of many social interactions relies on our capacity to predict other people's action goals, whether these are proximal (i.e., immediate) or distal (i.e., upcoming). The present set of studies asks whether observers can predict the distal goal of two-step action sequences when presented with communicative modulations of the first movement component of the sequence. We conducted three online experiments in which we presented participants with animations of a box moving to a first target location before moving onwards to a final, either near or far, target location. The second movement component and the target locations were occluded. After observing the first movement, participants were asked to select the most likely final target location, i.e., the distal goal of th

SUBMITTER: Dockendorff M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11210802 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature