TY  - JOUR
A1  - Neszmélyi, Bence
A1  - Weller, Lisa
A1  - Kunde, Wilfried
A1  - Pfister, Roland
T1  - Social action effects: representing predicted partner responses in social interactions
T2  - Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
N2  - The sociomotor framework outlines a possible role of social action effects on human action control, suggesting that anticipated partner reactions are a major cue to represent, select, and initiate own body movements. Here, we review studies that elucidate the actual content of social action representations and that explore factors that can distinguish action control processes involving social and inanimate action effects. Specifically, we address two hypotheses on how the social context can influence effect-based action control: first, by providing unique social features such as body-related, anatomical codes, and second, by orienting attention towards any relevant feature dimensions of the action effects. The reviewed empirical work presents a surprisingly mixed picture: while there is indirect evidence for both accounts, previous studies that directly addressed the anatomical account showed no signs of the involvement of genuinely social features in sociomotor action control. Furthermore, several studies show evidence against the differentiation of social and non-social action effect processing, portraying sociomotor action representations as remarkably non-social. A focus on enhancing the social experience in future studies should, therefore, complement the current database to establish whether such settings give rise to the hypothesized influence of social context.
KW  - motor control
KW  - action effects
KW  - action representation
KW  - sociomotor control
KW  - ideomotor theory
Y1  - 2022
UR  - https://opus.bibliothek.uni-wuerzburg.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/27660
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-276609
SN  - 1662-5161
VL  - 16
ER  -