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Is action understanding an automatic process? Both cognitive and perceptual processing are required for the identification of actions and intentions

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The ability to identify others’ actions and intentions, “action understanding,” is crucial for successful social interaction. Under direct accounts, action understanding takes place without the involvement of inferential processes, a claim that has yet to be tested using behavioural measures. Using a dual-task paradigm, the present study aimed to establish whether the identification of others’ actions and intentions depends on automatic or inferential processing, by manipulating working memor...

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Published
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Peer reviewed

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10.1177/17470218221078019

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
MSD
Department:
Experimental Psychology
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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
MSD
Department:
Experimental Psychology
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SAGE Publications
Journal:
Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology More from this journal
Volume:
76
Issue:
1
Pages:
70-83
Publication date:
2022-02-18
Acceptance date:
2022-01-17
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EISSN:
1747-0226
ISSN:
1747-0218
Language:
English
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1233083
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pubs:1233083
Deposit date:
2022-01-20

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