Visual objects can potentiate a grasping neural simulation which interferes with manual response execution

Olivier, Gérard; Velay, Jean Luc

doi:10.1016/j.actpsy.2008.11.004

Cited by 15 publications

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“…There appears to be a capacity limitation in state estimation during on-line control. Under some conditions, adding distracter targets in a precision grasp task does not necessarily influence initial planning or action selection, but it can modify on-line behavior (Olivier and Velay 2009). This may be due to an inability to represent multiple action goals and their desired outcomes.…”

Section: Controlling Grasps On-line: State Estimationmentioning

confidence: 99%

The cognitive neuroscience of prehension: recent developments

2010

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Prehension, the capacity to reach and grasp, is the key behavior that allows humans to change their environment. It continues to serve as a remarkable experimental test case for probing the cognitive architecture of goal-oriented action. This review focuses on recent experimental evidence that enhances or modifies how we might conceptualize the neural substrates of prehension. Emphasis is placed on studies that consider how precision grasps are selected and transformed into motor commands. Then, the mechanisms that extract action relevant information from vision and touch are considered. These include consideration of how parallel perceptual networks within parietal cortex, along with the ventral stream, are connected and share information to achieve common motor goals. On-line control of grasping action is discussed within a state estimation framework. The review ends with a consideration about how prehension fits within larger action repertoires that solve more complex goals and the possible cortical architectures needed to organize these actions.

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Section: Controlling Grasps On-line: State Estimationmentioning

confidence: 99%

The cognitive neuroscience of prehension: recent developments

2010

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“…Commonly referred to as motor theories of perception, these theories indicate that we mentally simulate movements and actions even though we only see (or only hear; or only touch) them. Research data from cognitive neuroscience and neurophysiology (Fogassi & Gallese, 2004;Jensenius, 2008;Olivier & Velay, 2009) show how motor areas in the brain (e.g., premotor and parietal area; Broca's area) are activated when subjects are watching someone else performing an action, when they are watching images of tools requiring certain actions (e.g., a hammer; a pair of scissors; a pen, or a keyboard; cf. Chao & Martin, 2000), and when action verbs are being read out loud (e.g.…”

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Digitizing Literacy: Reflections on the Haptics of Writing

Mangen¹,

Velay²

2010

Advances in Haptics

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“…Perceptual and motor characteristics of both perceived vowel articulation and silent labial response preparation could have interacted at an abstract level that is common to both perception and action preparation (Hommel, Müsseler, Aschersleben, & Prinz, 2001). However, to what extent could this perceptuomotor interaction rely on the dynamic compatibility (or incompatibility) between actual and mentally simulated gestures (Olivier & Velay, 2009)? In the domain of visual cognition, Olivier and Juan de Mendoza (2001) showed that, under certain conditions, participants can confuse the visual shape they perceive with the oculomotor scanpath that permits an imitation of its contours.…”

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Gestural Dimension of the Perceptuomotor Compatibility Effect in the Speech Domain

Olivier¹,

Bottineau

2015

Swiss Journal of Psychology

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This behavioral study shows for the first time that the auditory perception of vowels influences silent labial responses. During a perceptual decision task, participants were instructed to choose and execute a silent labial response (lip protrusion versus chin lowering) as quickly as possible depending on the vowel they had perceived auditorily. The main result showed that gestural compatibility between the silent labial response and the articulation of the perceived vowel led to better performance (in terms of response times and errors) than an incompatibility between them. By including a somatic compatibility effect in a more dynamic gestural compatibility effect, this new result suggests that the role of motor activity during speech auditory perception lies in mentally simulating an articulation of the perceived phoneme.

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Visual objects can potentiate a grasping neural simulation which interferes with manual response execution

Cited by 15 publications

References 32 publications

The cognitive neuroscience of prehension: recent developments

The cognitive neuroscience of prehension: recent developments

Digitizing Literacy: Reflections on the Haptics of Writing

Gestural Dimension of the Perceptuomotor Compatibility Effect in the Speech Domain

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