Action Intentions, Predictive Processing, and Mind Reading: Turning Goalkeepers Into Penalty Killers.

ABSTRACT: The key to action control is one's ability to adequately predict the consequences of one's actions. Predictive processing theories assume that forward models enable rapid "preplay" to assess the match between predicted and intended action effects. Here we propose the novel hypothesis that "reading" another's action intentions requires a rich forward model of that agent's action. Such a forward model can be obtained and enriched through learning by either practice or simulation. Based on this notion, we ran a series of studies on soccer goalkeepers and novices, who predicted the intended direction of penalties being kicked at them in a computerized penalty-reading task. In line with hypotheses, extensive practice in penalty kicking improved performance in penalty reading among goalke

SUBMITTER: Ridderinkhof KR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8812381 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature