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
JF  - 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
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-276609
SN  - 1662-5161
VL  - 16
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Pfister, Roland
A1  - Obhi, Sukhvinder S.
A1  - Rieger, Martina
A1  - Wenke, Dorit
T1  - Action and perception in social contexts: intentional binding for social action effects
N2  - The subjective experience of controlling events in the environment alters the perception of these events. For instance, the interval between one's own actions and their consequences is subjectively compressed—a phenomenon known as intentional binding. In two experiments, we studied intentional binding in a social setting in which actions of one agent prompted a second agent to perform another action. Participants worked in pairs and were assigned to a “leader” and a “follower” role, respectively. The leader's key presses triggered (after a variable interval) a tone and this tone served as go signal for the follower to perform a keypress as well. Leaders and followers estimated the interval between the leader's keypress and the following tone, or the interval between the tone and the follower's keypress. The leader showed reliable intentional binding for both intervals relative to the follower's estimates. These results indicate that human agents experience a pre-reflective sense of agency for genuinely social consequences of their actions.
KW  - intentional binding
KW  - action effects
KW  - social actions
KW  - action and perception
KW  - sense of agency
Y1  - 2014
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-112828
ER  -