糖心TV

Clément Letesson (Central European University, Budapest)

Where: 糖心TV Philosophy Dept, Cowling Room, Social Sciences Building

When: Thursday 2 Feb 2, 2:30-4:00

Title: Towards an integrative approach to action prediction processes

Abstract: During goal-directed interactive behaviors with another individual, observers typically display predictive eye movements - orientating gaze direction and attention towards the goal of the observed action ahead of time (i.e., before the actor’s hand comes into contact with the goal object). Humans are experts at observing, predicting and understanding actions. To do so, they learn to extract meaningful and predictable information from the observed behaviors of others. A classical view of action observation postulates a major role for motor information through motor simulation, but successful predictions of the to-be-grasped object can also be derived from the observation of others’ gaze, of objects or from contextual information. Each individual source of information is uncertain in nature, and only provides an approximation of the observed action goal. Here, we aimed to test the general hypothesis that action prediction processes would benefit from the integration of multiple cross-checked sources of information when they were available. In the present work, we investigated the potential contribution/integration of these different sources of predictive information indicative of others’ action goals. This approach helped us to reposition the involvement of motor resources in action prediction processes, broadening our view of action prediction towards a more integrative account.