Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: Anticipating to be imitated by another agent primes corresponding action plans in action models. Here we assessed whether being imitated by more than one coactor boosts anticipated imitation. This prediction was based on corresponding findings from motor priming by perceiving rather than anticipating movements of multiple agents. In contrast to this previous work, the effects of anticipated imitation were similar for imitation by a single agent and joint imitation by two agents. Anticipated imitation, therefore, appears to be based on sparse representations of only selected features rather than including a full representation of all possible consequences of one's own movements.
Authors: Bence Neszmélyi, Roland Pfister
Institutions: University of Würzburg, Universität Trier
Language: English
Subfield: Social Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
Awards: G1782280649, G2483892238
OpenAlex ID: W4409075593