Abstract
The tendency to imitate others is a fundamental social skill which could develop via associative learning or some more specialized mechanism, such as observation-execution matching. In this paper, we employ a stimulus-response compatibility paradigm to evaluate whether ideomotor compatibility conforms to the same processes as other S-R responses. The findings reveal a dissociation between spatial and ideomotor compatibility. A set of connectionist models are developed, which show that the differences between spatial and ideomotor compatibility are attributable to structural differences and in part to the relative strengths of an inhibitory node mediating the involuntary S-R response.
Original language | American English |
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State | Published - 2009 |
Event | Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society - Duration: Jan 1 2009 → … |
Conference
Conference | Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society |
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Period | 01/1/09 → … |
Disciplines
- Psychiatry and Psychology
- Psychology
Keywords
- Action perception
- Ideomotor compatibility
- Spatial compatibility
- Connectionist modeling