Methodological issues in measures of imitative reaction times
Methodological issues in measures of imitative reaction times
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DOI：
10.1016/j.bandc.2006.09.005
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发表时间：
2007-04-01
影响因子：
2.5
通讯作者：
Mon-Williams, Mark
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作者：
Aicken, Michael D.;Wilson, Andrew. D.;Mon-Williams, Mark
Ideomotor （IM）理论认为，观察别人的行为会激活观察者对该行为的内部运动表征。支持模仿的观念运动理论的证据来自于一些研究，这些研究表明，模仿反应比对空间线索的反应更快。为了复制这些发现，我们操纵了视觉线索的显著性，发现我们可以逆转模仿线索相对于空间线索的优势。我们认为，参与者利用一种简单的视觉运动机制来完成这项任务的各个方面，其表现是由刺激物的相对视觉显著性驱动的。模仿是一种更复杂的运动技能，它是一种低效的快速表现策略。(c) 2006爱思唯尔公司版权所有。
Ideomotor (IM) theory suggests that observing someone else perform an action activates an internal motor representation of that behaviour within the observer. Evidence supporting the case for an ideomotor theory of imitation has come from studies that show imitative responses to be faster than the same behavioural measures performed in response to spatial cues. In an attempt to replicate these findings, we manipulated the salience of the visual cue and found that we could reverse the advantage of the imitative cue over the spatial cue. We suggest that participants utilised a simple visuomotor mechanism to perform all aspects of this task, with performance being driven by the relative visual salience of the stimuli. Imitation is a more complex motor skill that would constitute an inefficient strategy for rapid performance. (c) 2006 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.