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  - Liesner, Marvin
A1  - Kirsch, Wladimir
A1  - Pfister, Roland
A1  - Kunde, Wilfried
T1  - Spatial action-effect binding depends on type of action-effect transformation
JF  - Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics
N2  - Spatial action–effect binding denotes the mutual attraction between the perceived position of an effector (e.g., one’s own hand) and a distal object that is controlled by this effector. Such spatial binding can be construed as an implicit measure of object ownership, thus the belonging of a controlled object to the own body. The current study investigated how different transformations of hand movements (body-internal action component) into movements of a visual object (body-external action component) affect spatial action–effect binding, and thus implicit object ownership. In brief, participants had to bring a cursor on the computer screen into a predefined target position by moving their occluded hand on a tablet and had to estimate their final hand position. In Experiment 1, we found a significantly lower drift of the proprioceptive position of the hand towards the visual object when hand movements were transformed into laterally inverted cursor movements, rather than cursor movements in the same direction. Experiment 2 showed that this reduction reflected an elimination of spatial action–effect binding in the inverted condition. The results are discussed with respect to the prerequisites for an experience of ownership over artificial, noncorporeal objects. Our results show that predictability of an object movement alone is not a sufficient condition for ownership because, depending on the type of transformation, integration of the effector and a distal object can be fully abolished even under conditions of full controllability.
KW  - action–effect compatibility
KW  - agency
KW  - body ownership
KW  - ideomotor theory
KW  - proprioceptive drift
KW  - spatial binding
KW  - tool use
Y1  - 2020
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-232781
SN  - 1943-3921
VL  - 82
ER  -