Motor learning enhances perceptual judgment: a case for action-perception transfer

Hecht, Heiko; Vogt, Stefan; Prinz, Wolfgang

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“…An important aspect appears to be that perceptual or "observational learning" has to be explicit, i.e., conscious (Willingham, 1999;Kelly and Burton, 2001). More recent experiments have provided evidence that transfer between perception and action is bidirectional, as transfer both from action to perception and from perception to action was found (Hecht et al, 2001). These findings were taken to support the assumption of a "common coding" of perceptual and motor events (Prinz, 1997).…”

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A Blueprint for Target Motion: fMRI Reveals Perceived Sequential Complexity to Modulate Premotor Cortex

Schubotz

Cramon

2002

NeuroImage

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The execution of movements that are guided by an increasingly complex target motion is known to draw on premotor cortices. Whole-brain functional magnetic resonance imaging was used to investigate whether, in the absence of any movement, attending to and predicting increasingly complex target motion also rely on premotor cortices. Complexity was varied as a function of number of sequential elements and amount of dynamic sequential trend in a pulsing target motion. As a result, serial prediction caused activations in premotor and parietal cortices, particularly within the right hemisphere. Parametric analyses revealed that the right ventrolateral premotor cortex and the right anterior intraparietal sulcus were the only areas that, in addition, covaried positively with both behavioral and physical measures of sequential complexity. Further areas that covaried positively with increasing task difficulty reflected influences of both number and trend manipulation. In particular, increasing element number drew on dorsal premotor and corresponding posterior intraparietal regions, whereas increasing trend drew on the visual motion area and area V4. The present findings demonstrate that premotor involvement directly reflects perceptual complexity in attended and predicted target motion. It is suggested that when we try to predict how a target will move, the motor system generates a "blueprint" of the observed motion that allows potential sensorimotor integration. In the absence of any motor requirement, this blueprint appears to be not a byproduct of motor planning, but rather the basis for target motion prediction.

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Section: Serial Prediction Activates Ventrolateral Premotor Cortex Anmentioning

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A Blueprint for Target Motion: fMRI Reveals Perceived Sequential Complexity to Modulate Premotor Cortex

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Cramon

2002

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“…Casile and Giese showed that the discrimination of point-light displays of gait patterns was selectively enhanced after purely motor training of a corresponding, novel phase relationship of the upper limbs, thus providing further evidence for direct matching. However, the authors did not study whether the kinaesthetic information available during motor training might have been sufficient for the transfer effect; thus the same caveat applies to this study as to the original work by Hecht et al (2001).…”

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“…A timing task was also used to explore actionperception transfer (APT; Hecht, Vogt, & Prinz, 2001). Whereas the study of observational learning, or transfer from perception to action (PAT), has a long history, virtually no research was available to indicate if motor practice would transfer to perceptual skills.…”

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“…This result is in line with the beneficial effects of verbal and visual attentional cueing during observational learning (Janelle, Champenoy, Coombes, & Mousseau, 2003). Casile and Giese (2006) employed an inter-limb coordination task to study action -perception transfer, using a similar design to that of Hecht et al (2001). Casile and Giese showed that the discrimination of point-light displays of gait patterns was selectively enhanced after purely motor training of a corresponding, novel phase relationship of the upper limbs, thus providing further evidence for direct matching.…”

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From visuo-motor interactions to imitation learning: Behavioural and brain imaging studies

Vogt

Thomaschke

2007

Journal of Sports Sciences

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We review three areas of research and theory relating to the involvement of motor processing in action observation: behavioural studies on imitation learning, behavioural work on short-term visuomotor interactions, and related neurophysiological and neuroimaging work. A large number of behavioural studies now indicate bi-directional links between perception and action: visual processing can automatically induce related motor processes, and motor actions can direct future visual processing. The related concept of direct matching (Rizzolatti et al., 2001) does not, however, imply that observed actions are transduced into a corresponding motor representation that would guarantee an instant and accurate imitation. Rather, studies on the mirror neuron system indicate that action observation engages the observer's own motor prototype of the observed action. This allows for enhanced action recognition, imitation recognition, and, predominantly in humans, imitation and observational learning. Despite the clear impact of action observation on motor representations, recent neuroimaging work also indicates the overlap of imitation learning with processes of non-imitative skill acquisition.

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“…Alpha was set at p < 0.05, and eta squared (ƞ 2 ) expressed the size of the effect. 20 facilitate positive transfer from imitation to subsequent motor performance (Hecht, et al, 2001). In the 21 current study, we further examined whether higher-order processes developed using reduced-22 frequency feedback procedures in motor training transfer to imitation.…”

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Complimentary lower-level and higher-order systems underpin imitation learning

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Elliott

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Brain and Cognition

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Motor learning enhances perceptual judgment: a case for action-perception transfer

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Cited by 147 publications

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A Blueprint for Target Motion: fMRI Reveals Perceived Sequential Complexity to Modulate Premotor Cortex

A Blueprint for Target Motion: fMRI Reveals Perceived Sequential Complexity to Modulate Premotor Cortex

From visuo-motor interactions to imitation learning: Behavioural and brain imaging studies

Complimentary lower-level and higher-order systems underpin imitation learning

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