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  1. (1 other version)Joint action: bodies and minds moving together.Natalie Sebanz, Harold Bekkering & Günther Knoblich - 2006 - Trends in Cognitive Sciences 10 (2):70-76.
  2. Joint Action: Neurocognitive Mechanisms Supporting Human Interaction.Harold Bekkering, Ellen R. A. De Bruijn, Raymond H. Cuijpers, Roger Newman-Norlund, Hein T. Van Schie & Ruud Meulenbroek - 2009 - Topics in Cognitive Science 1 (2):340-352.
    Humans are experts in cooperating with each other when trying to accomplish tasks they cannot achieve alone. Recent studies of joint action have shown that when performing tasks together people strongly rely on the neurocognitive mechanisms that they also use when performing actions individually, that is, they predict the consequences of their co‐actor’s behavior through internal action simulation. Context‐sensitive action monitoring and action selection processes, however, are relatively underrated but crucial ingredients of joint action. In the present paper, we try (...)
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    Joint attention: Inferring what others perceive (and don't perceive).Pines Nuku & Harold Bekkering - 2008 - Consciousness and Cognition 17 (1):339-349.
    Research has shown that observers automatically align their attention with another’s gaze direction. The present study investigates whether inferring another’s attended location affects the observer’s attention in the same way as observing their gaze direction. In two experiments, we used a laterally oriented virtual human head to prime one of two laterally presented targets. Experiment 1 showed that, in contrast to the agent with closed eyes, observing the agent with open eyes facilitated the observer’s alignment of attention with the primed (...)
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    Communicative intent modulates production and comprehension of actions and gestures: A Kinect study.James P. Trujillo, Irina Simanova, Harold Bekkering & Asli Özyürek - 2018 - Cognition 180 (C):38-51.
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  5. What do mirror neurons mirror?Sebo Uithol, Iris van Rooij, Harold Bekkering & Pim Haselager - 2011 - Philosophical Psychology 24 (5):607 - 623.
    Single cell recordings in monkeys provide strong evidence for an important role of the motor system in action understanding. This evidence is backed up by data from studies of the (human) mirror neuron system using neuroimaging or TMS techniques, and behavioral experiments. Although the data acquired from single cell recordings are generally considered to be robust, several debates have shown that the interpretation of these data is far from straightforward. We will show that research based on single-cell recordings allows for (...)
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    Motor system contribution to action prediction: Temporal accuracy depends on motor experience.Janny C. Stapel, Sabine Hunnius, Marlene Meyer & Harold Bekkering - 2016 - Cognition 148 (C):71-78.
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    Embodied Language Comprehension Requires an Enactivist Paradigm of Cognition.Michiel van Elk, Marc Slors & Harold Bekkering - 2010 - Frontiers in Psychology 1.
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    Contrasting Similar Words Facilitates Second Language Vocabulary Learning in Children by Sharpening Lexical Representations.Peta Baxter, Mienke Droop, Marianne van den Hurk, Harold Bekkering, Ton Dijkstra & Frank Leoné - 2021 - Frontiers in Psychology 12.
    This study considers one of the cognitive mechanisms underlying the development of second language vocabulary in children: The differentiation and sharpening of lexical representations. We propose that sharpening is triggered by an implicit comparison of similar representations, a process we call contrasting. We investigate whether integrating contrasting in a learning method in which children contrast orthographically and semantically similar L2 words facilitates learning of those words by sharpening their new lexical representations. In our study, 48 Dutch-speaking children learned unfamiliar orthographically (...)
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    Hierarchy of Idea-Guided Action and Perception-Guided Movement.Sasha Ondobaka & Harold Bekkering - 2012 - Frontiers in Psychology 3.
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    Flexibility in Embodied Language Processing: Context Effects in Lexical Access.Wessel O. Dam, Inti A. Brazil, Harold Bekkering & Shirley‐Ann Rueschemeyer - 2014 - Topics in Cognitive Science 6 (3):407-424.
    According to embodied theories of language (ETLs), word meaning relies on sensorimotor brain areas, generally dedicated to acting and perceiving in the real world. More specifically, words denoting actions are postulated to make use of neural motor areas, while words denoting visual properties draw on the resources of visual brain areas. Therefore, there is a direct correspondence between word meaning and the experience a listener has had with a word's referent on the brain level. Behavioral and neuroimaging studies have provided (...)
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    Flexibility in Embodied Language Processing: Context Effects in Lexical Access.Wessel O. van Dam, Inti A. Brazil, Harold Bekkering & Shirley-Ann Rueschemeyer - 2014 - Topics in Cognitive Science 6 (3):407-424.
    According to embodied theories of language (ETLs), word meaning relies on sensorimotor brain areas, generally dedicated to acting and perceiving in the real world. More specifically, words denoting actions are postulated to make use of neural motor areas, while words denoting visual properties draw on the resources of visual brain areas. Therefore, there is a direct correspondence between word meaning and the experience a listener has had with a word's referent on the brain level. Behavioral and neuroimaging studies have provided (...)
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    When one sees what the other hears: Crossmodal attentional modulation for gazed and non-gazed upon auditory targets.Pines Nuku & Harold Bekkering - 2010 - Consciousness and Cognition 19 (1):135-143.
    Three experiments investigated the nature of visuo-auditory crossmodal cueing in a triadic setting: participants had to detect an auditory signal while observing another agent’s head facing one of the two laterally positioned auditory sources. Experiment 1 showed that when the agent’s eyes were open, sounds originating on the side of the agent’s gaze were detected faster than sounds originating on the side of the agent’s visible ear; when the agent’s eyes were closed this pat-tern of responses was reversed. Two additional (...)
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    Fifteen-month-old infants use velocity information to predict others’ action targets.Janny C. Stapel, Sabine Hunnius & Harold Bekkering - 2015 - Frontiers in Psychology 6.
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    Communicative intentions can modulate the linguistic perception-action link.Yoshihisa Kashima, Harold Bekkering & Emiko S. Kashima - 2013 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 36 (4):361-362.
    Although applauding Pickering & Garrod's (P&G's) attempt to ground language use in the ideomotor perception-action link, which provides an of embodied social interaction, we suggest that it needs to be complemented by an additional control mechanism that modulates its operation in the service of the language users' communicative intentions. Implications for intergroup relationships and intercultural communication are discussed.
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    Higher-level processes in the formation and application of associations during action understanding.Lieke Heil, Stan van Pelt, Johan Kwisthout, Iris van Rooij & Harold Bekkering - 2014 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 37 (2):202-203.
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    Goals are not implied by actions, but inferred from actions and contexts.Iris van Rooij, Willem Haselager & Harold Bekkering - 2008 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 31 (1):38-39.
    People cannot understand intentions behind observed actions by direct simulation, because goal inference is highly context dependent. Context dependency is a major source of computational intractability in traditional information-processing models. An embodied embedded view of cognition may be able to overcome this problem, but then the problem needs recognition and explication within the context of the new, layered cognitive architecture.
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    What has to be learned in motor learning?Harold Bekkering, Detlef Heck & Fahad Sultan - 1996 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 19 (3):436-437.
    The present commentary considers the question of what must be learned in different types of motor skills, thereby limiting the question of what should be adjusted in the APG model in order to explain successful learning. It is concluded that an open loop model like the APG might well be able to describe the learning pattern of motor skills in a stable, predictable environment. Recent research on saccadic plasticity, however, illustrates that motor skills performed in an unpredictable environment depend heavily (...)
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    When actions are carved at the joints.Merideth Gattis, Harold Bekkering & Andreas Wohlschläger - 1998 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 21 (5):691-692.
    We focus on Byrne & Russon's argument that program-level imitation is driven by hierarchically organized goals, and the related claim that to establish whether observed behavior is evidence of program-level imitation, empirical studies of imitation must use multi-stage actions as imitative tasks. We agree that goals play an indispensable role in the generation of action and imitative behavior but argue that multi-goal tasks, not only multi-stage tasks, reveal program-level imitation.
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    Symbols in numbers: from numerals to magnitude information.Oliver Lindemann, Shirley-Ann Rueschemeyer & Harold Bekkering - 2009 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 32 (3-4):341-342.
    A dual-code model of number processing needs to take into account the difference between a number symbol and its meaning. The transition of automatic non-abstract number representations into intentional abstract representations could be conceptualized as a translation of perceptual asemantic representations of numerals into semantic representations of the associated magnitude information. The controversy about the nature of number representations should be thus related to theories on embodied grounding of symbols.
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    The processing of task-irrelevant emotion and colour in the Approach-Avoidance Task.Xijia Luo, Mike Rinck, Harold Bekkering & Eni S. Becker - 2019 - Cognition and Emotion 33 (3):548-562.
    ABSTRACTWhen processing information about human faces, we have to integrate different sources of information like skin colour and emotional expression. In 3 experiments, we investigated how these features are processed in a top-down manner when task instructions determine the relevance of features, and in a bottom-up manner when the stimulus features themselves determine process priority. In Experiment 1, participants learned to respond with approach-avoidance movements to faces that presented both emotion and colour features. For each participant, only one of these (...)
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    Stability through variability: Homeostatic plasticity and psychological resilience.Dennis J. L. G. Schutter, Miles Wischnewski & Harold Bekkering - 2015 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 38.
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    Predicting Choice Behavior of Group Members.Lukas Spieß & Harold Bekkering - 2020 - Frontiers in Psychology 11.
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    How to link the specificity of cerebellar anatomy to motor learning?Fahad Sultan, Detlef Heck & Harold Bekkering - 1996 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 19 (3):474.