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  • * Action and perception science
  • * Human-computer interaction
  • * Motor control and learning

Background:

  • * Previous research confirms individuals' ability to accurately judge their own interceptability.
  • * The capacity for perceiving another person's action affordances remains less understood.

Purpose of the Study:

  • * To investigate if observers can accurately perceive the affordance of interceptability for another individual (the actor).
  • * To examine the influence of prior training and visual occlusion on this perception.

Main Methods:

  • * A manual lateral interception task was employed with an actor and three groups of observers.
  • * Observers judged when a ball was uninterceptable for the actor, with varying visual conditions and training.
  • * Judgments were compared to the actor's performance metrics.

Main Results:

  • * Observer judgments (frequency and timing) closely matched the actor's performance.
  • * Perceptual performance was characterized by analogous task variables for both observers and the actor.
  • * Neither prior training nor visual occlusion significantly affected observer judgments.

Conclusions:

  • * Individuals can perceive action possibilities (affordances) for others, akin to self-perception.
  • * This suggests a shared mechanism for perceiving affordances, whether for oneself or another.