Investigating action understanding: inferential processes versus action simulation.

By Marcel Brass, Ruth M. Schmitt, Stephanie Spengler, György Gergely. 2007

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Social Psychology

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Theory of Mind: A Neural Prediction Problem (2013, neutral): “Activity in STS is highest when the action appears least efficient, and lowest when the action appears most efficient (Brass et al., 2007).”
Understanding others' actions and goals by mirror and mentalizing systems: A meta-analysis (2009, neutral): “For instance, in the study by Brass et al. (2007), the actors always engaged in the same behavior involving the same task goal and goal object (switching on the light with their knee) but under different contextual conditions so that some behaviors were plausible (while holding a stack of books)…”
Reintegrating the Study of Accuracy Into Social Cognition Research (2011, background): “Consistent with this, both the ESS and MSAS are concurrently engaged by “naturalistic” mind perception tasks, such as viewing videos of complex social cues (Brass, Schmitt, Spengler, & Gergely, 2007 ; de Lange, Spronk, Willems, Toni, & Bekkering, 2008; Spunt et al, 2010 ; Wolf, Dziobek, & Heekeren”
The Observation and Execution of Actions Share Motor and Somatosensory Voxels in all Tested Subjects: Single-Subject Analyses of Unsmoothed fMRI Data (2008, background): “Three studies for instance have looked at where the brain might process why individuals perform certain actions, but have identified 3 different brain regions: the IFG (Iacoboni et al. 2005), the temporoparietal junction (Brass et al. 2007) and midline structures (de Lange et al. 2008).”
A developmental, mentalization-based approach to the understanding and treatment of borderline personality disorder (2009, background): “…Brass’s group, using a within-subject experimental design with reflective mentalizing and imitation–inhibition tasks, suggests that there is a functional relationship between the extent an individual can inhibit imitative behavior and the capacity for belief–desire reasoning (Brass et al., 2007).”
Action observation: inferring intentions without mirror neurons. (2008, background): “[10]: here, the goal of the action, to operate the light switch with the knee, was the same in every video.”
Abstraction Levels for Robotic Imitation: Overview and Computational Approaches (2010, background): “In [19] an experiment is presented where a person turns a light on using its knee.”
A Computational Model of Social-Learning Mechanisms (2009, methodology): “In this section we model three well-known social learning experimental paradigms to assess how well our model can replicate the corresponding results.”
The role of prediction in social neuroscience (2012, background): “…related to expertise and familiarity of actions in motor cortex activity during action observation, and by studies showing neural activity outside of the mirror neuron system during observation of actions that are unfamiliar or difficult to understand (Brass et al., 2007; Kilner and Frith, 2008).”
Do humans have two systems to track beliefs and belief-like states? (2009, neutral): “Human infants and nonhuman animals”
The functional role of the parieto-frontal mirror circuit: interpretations and misinterpretations (2010, result): “Activation of the same network was also shown in a study that investigated unusual actions performed in implausible versus plausible context”