Recognition of self-generated actions from kinematic displays of drawing.
Five experiments addressed the question of whether individuals can distinguish between self-generated and other-generated actions when seeing their visual effects. Each experiment consisted of a recording session in which participants drew familiar and unfamiliar characters without receiving visual feedback and a recognition session in which they provided self-or-other judgments (SOJs) to indicate whether a kinematic display reproduced the visual effects of their own actions. The main results were that self-generated and other-generated drawing can be distinguished, that the familiarity of character shapes does not influence the accuracy of SOJs, and that velocity information is crucial for the identification of self-generated drawing. The ability to determine authorship from kinematic displays of drawing provides evidence for the contribution of action-planning structures to perception.
Knoblich
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Arbeitsgruppe Kognition und Handlung (Department of Cognition and Action), Max Planck Institute for Psychological Research, Munich, Germany. knoblich@mpipf-muenchen.mpg.de
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D000328:Adult; D001696:Biomechanical Phenomena; D003463:Cues; D004532:Ego; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009039:Motion Perception; D021641:Recognition, Psychology; D012858:Size Perception; D013028:Space Perception; D013998:Time Perception