The Theory of Event Coding (TEC): a framework for perception and action planning.

By Bernhard Hommel, Jochen Müsseler, Gisa Aschersleben, Wolfgang Prinz. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2001

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology

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A critical look at the embodied cognition hypothesis and a new proposal for grounding conceptual content. (2008, neutral): “This does not mean that an embodied cognition hypothesis would not face its own challenges about specifying the nature of the interface between perceptual and motor systems (Hommel et al., 2001).”
Language and action: creating sensible combinations of ideas (2007, neutral): “For example, the model predicts that many aspects of motor control (e.g. the common coding principle; Hommel et al., 2001) should apply to language understanding.”
The neural bases of complex tool use in humans. (2004, background): “The validity of this approach for studying representations of skill depends on whether or not the same mechanisms contribute both to action comprehension and production, the so-called ‘Common-Coding Hypothesis’ [54, 55 ].”
Psychological research on joint action: Theory and data (2011, background): “Whereas processes of entrainment can explain why two actors’ rhythmic actions get aligned, perception–action matching can explain why individuals tend to perform similar actions (Brass & Heyes, 2005) or actions that lead to similar perceptual consequences (Hommel et al., 2001; Prinz, 1997) while obs”
Neural Coding of Cognitive Control: The Representational Similarity Analysis Approach. (2020, background): “One expansive cognitive theory proposes that, during goal-driven behavior, perceptual, action, and contextual information is intermediately bound into conjunctive representations, so-called ‘event files’, that are used to guide action selection [43,62].”
Why is conversation so easy? (2004, background): “motor imitation arising from the firing of mirror neurons in monkey premotor cortex [36,37]) and in the psychological literature [ 38 ].”
Your highness: vertical positions as perceptual symbols of power. (2005, background): “In line with the theory of event coding (Hommel et al., 2001), I interpret this result as showing that action codes (up and down) are mentally represented as external events (top vs.”
Embodied Language: A Review of the Role of the Motor System in Language Comprehension (2008, methodology): “Depending on one’s interpretation, the common coding view, as represented in TEC, either offers an even more reductive role for cognition (because all goal-directed planning eventually dissolves into the common feature representations for perception and action), or else successfully abandons the con”