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  Adaptation aftereffects reveal representations for encoding of contingent social actions

Fedorov, L., Chang, D.-S., Giese, M., Bülthoff, H., & de la Rosa, S. (2018). Adaptation aftereffects reveal representations for encoding of contingent social actions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 115(29), 7515-7520. doi:10.1073/pnas.1801364115.

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Fedorov, LA, Author           
Chang, D-S1, 2, Author           
Giese, MA, Author           
Bülthoff, HH1, 2, 3, Author           
de la Rosa, S1, 2, 4, Author           
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1Department Human Perception, Cognition and Action, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Max Planck Society, ou_1497797              
2Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Max Planck Society, ou_1497794              
3Project group: Cybernetics Approach to Perception & Action, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Max Planck Society, ou_2528701              
4Project group: Social & Spatial Cognition, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Max Planck Society, ou_2528706              

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 Abstract: A hallmark of human social behavior is the effortless ability to relate one's own actions to that of the interaction partner, e.g. when stretching out one's arms to catch a tripping child. What are the behavioral properties of the neural substrates that support this indispensable human skill? Here we examined the processes underlying the ability to relate actions to each other, namely the recognition of spatio-temporal contingencies between actions (e.g. a 'giving' that is followed by a 'taking'). We used a behavioral adaptation paradigm to examine the response properties of perceptual mechanisms at a behavioral level. In contrast to the common view that action sensitive units are primarily selective for one action (i.e. primary action, e.g. 'throwing'), we demonstrate that these processes also exhibit sensitivity to a matching contingent action (e.g. 'catching'). Control experiments demonstrate that the sensitivity of action recognition processes to contingent actions cannot be explained by lower-level visual features or amodal semantic adaptation. Moreover, we show that action recognition processes are only sensitive to contingent actions, but not to non-contingent actions, demonstrating their selective sensitivity to contingent actions. Our findings provide first evidence for the selective coding mechanism of action contingencies by action-sensitive processes and demonstrate how the representations of individual actions in social interactions can be linked in a unified representation.

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 Dates: 2018-07
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 Identifiers: BibTex Citekey: FedorovCGBd2018
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1801364115
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Title: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
  Other : Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA
  Other : Proc. Acad. Sci. USA
  Other : Proc. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.
  Abbreviation : PNAS
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Publ. Info: Washington, D.C. : National Academy of Sciences
Pages: - Volume / Issue: 115 (29) Sequence Number: - Start / End Page: 7515 - 7520 Identifier: ISSN: 0027-8424
CoNE: https://pure.mpg.de/cone/journals/resource/954925427230