title: Inferring another's expectation from action: the role of peripheral sensation.
abstract: It is unclear how knowledge of one's actions and one's body contribute to the understanding of others' actions. Here we show that two subjects lacking cutaneous touch and sense of movement and position show a selective deficit in interpreting another person's anticipation of weight when seeing him lifting boxes. We suggest that this ability occurs through mental simulation of action dependent on internal motor representations, which require peripheral sensation for their maintenance.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Amalienstr. 33, 80799 Munich, Germany. bosbach@cbs.mpg.de
authors.forename: Simone
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Bosbach
authors.forename: Jonathan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Cole
authors.forename: Wolfgang
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Prinz
authors.forename: Günther
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Knoblich
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D005544:Forecasting; D006801:Humans; D007600:Judgment / Q000502:physiology*; D007699:Kinesthesis; D008297:Male; D008606:Mental Processes / Q000502:physiology*; D012677:Sensation / Q000502:physiology*; D012683:Sensory Deprivation; D014891:Weight Lifting