Massen Cristina, Prinz Wolfgang
Department of Psychology, Max-Planck-Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Stephanstrasse 1a, 04103 Leipzig, Germany.
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2009 Aug 27;364(1528):2349-58. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2009.0059.
In this article we discuss both merits and limitations of the ideomotor approach to action control and action imitation. In the first part, we give a brief outline of ideomotor theory and its functional implications for imitation and related kinds of behaviours. In the subsequent sections, we summarize pertinent experimental studies on action imitation and action induction. These studies show that action perception modulates action planning in a number of ways, of which imitation is but one. In the last part, we move from regular actions to tool-use actions, raising the issue of whether and how watching others' tool-use actions leads to corresponding behaviours in observers. Here, we discuss experiments aimed at dissociating the relative roles of environmental targets, bodily movements and target-to-movement-mappings (action rules) in the observation of tool-use actions. Our findings indicate a strong role for action rules in the observation and imitation of tool-use actions. We argue that, in order to account for these findings, ideomotor theory needs to be extended to take mappings between bodily movements and environmental effects into account.
在本文中，我们讨论了动作控制和动作模仿的观念运动方法的优点和局限性。在第一部分，我们简要概述了观念运动理论及其对模仿和相关行为类型的功能影响。在随后的章节中，我们总结了关于动作模仿和动作诱导的相关实验研究。这些研究表明，动作感知以多种方式调节动作规划，其中模仿只是其中之一。在最后一部分，我们从常规动作转向工具使用动作，提出观察他人的工具使用动作是否以及如何导致观察者产生相应行为的问题。在这里，我们讨论了旨在区分环境目标、身体动作和目标到动作映射（动作规则）在工具使用动作观察中的相对作用的实验。我们的研究结果表明动作规则在工具使用动作的观察和模仿中起着重要作用。我们认为，为了解释这些发现，观念运动理论需要扩展，以考虑身体动作与环境效果之间的映射。
