What to do if I can do what you can do?
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2011-01-03
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en
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Action prediction is a complex and interesting quality from human beings. It is necessary to live in a normal way with other living creatures and even robots in the future. It is commonly believed that motor resonance (i.e., the overlap in neural activity during action execution and action observation) plays a role in action prediction. This idea motivates the hypothesis that action prediction may be more effective when the action one observes resembles actions oneself could perform. This hypothesis is
tested by comparing the action prediction of infants when they look at someone walking the way they do to (i.e., other infants) or when they look at someone who walks differently ( i.e., adults). This experiment is to find out how the human action prediction system works, so we know more about it and can use it for creating robots. To take all cues besides movement away, there were point-light displays created of walking
adults and infants. In this thesis a new technique is described how and
why to use point-light displays. Eye tracking was used to measure the action prediction during the experiment, the results were to discuss action prediction theories.
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Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen