Additive Routes to Action Learning: Layering Experience Shapes Engagement of the Action Observation Network.

ABSTRACT: The way in which we perceive others in action is biased by one's prior experience with an observed action. For example, we can have auditory, visual, or motor experience with actions we observe others perform. How action experience via 1, 2, or all 3 of these modalities shapes action perception remains unclear. Here, we combine pre- and post-training functional magnetic resonance imaging measures with a dance training manipulation to address how building experience (from auditory to audiovisual to audiovisual plus motor) with a complex action shapes subsequent action perception. Results indicate that layering experience across these 3 modalities activates a number of sensorimotor cortical regions associated with the action observation network (AON) in such a way that the more modalities th

SUBMITTER: Kirsch LP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4635920 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature