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Eye Movements During Action Observation.

Gustaf Gredebäck¹, Terje Falck-Ytter²

¹Department of Psychology, Uppsala University gustaf.gredeback@psyk.uu.se.

Perspectives on Psychological Science : a Journal of the Association for Psychological Science

|September 20, 2015

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Observing actions involves predicting goals. Research shows the motor system causally guides predictive gaze shifts toward another person's future goal, evident even in infants.

Keywords:

action development: infant neuroscience performance social cognition

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Area of Science:

Cognitive Neuroscience
Developmental Psychology
Social Cognition

Background:

Predicting others' goals is crucial for social interaction.
Flanagan and Johansson (2007) proposed embodied processes mediate predictive gaze during action observation.
This predictive gaze shifts to the goal before action completion.

Purpose of the Study:

To review and scrutinize research following Flanagan and Johansson's seminal work.
To investigate the causal role of the motor system in predictive gaze.
To examine developmental evidence in infants.

Main Methods:

Review of studies using eye-tracking and transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) in adults.
Analysis of developmental studies on infant gaze behavior.
Testing causal hypotheses about brain circuits underlying predictive eye movements.

Main Results:

Evidence strongly suggests the motor system plays a causal role in predictive gaze shifts.
Predictive gaze is directed towards the observed person's future goal.
Early emergence of predictive gaze in infants highlights its importance.

Conclusions:

The motor system is causally involved in guiding predictive gaze during action observation.
Predictive eye movements are fundamental to social cognition and interaction.
Further clarification of embodied processes in predictive gaze is needed.