Univ. Lille, CNRS, UMR 9193, SCALab-Sciences Cognitives et Sciences Affectives, 59000, Lille, France.
Univ. Paris Nanterre, LICAÉ-Laboratoire Sur Les Interactions Cognition-Action-Émotion, Nanterre, France.
Psychol Res. 2022 Sep;86(6):1858-1870. doi: 10.1007/s00426-021-01617-z. Epub 2021 Nov 21.
Although goals often drive action understanding, this ability is also prone to important variability among individuals, which may have its origin in individual social characteristics. The present study aimed at evaluating the relationship between the tendency to prioritize goal information over grip information during early visual processing of action and several social dimensions. Visual processing of grip and goal information during action recognition was evaluated in 64 participants using the priming protocol developed by Decroix and Kalénine (Exp Brain Res 236(8):2411-2426, 2018). Object-directed action photographs were primed by photographs sharing the same goal and/or the same grip. The effects of goal and grip priming on action recognition were evaluated for different prime durations. The same participants further fulfilled questionnaires characterizing the way individuals deal with their social environment, namely their sense of social power, dominance, perspective taking, and construal level. At the group level, results confirmed greater goal than grip priming effects on action recognition for the shortest prime duration. Regression analyses between the pattern of response times in the action priming protocol and scores at the questionnaires further showed that the advantage of goal over grip priming was associated with higher sense of social power, and possibly to lower dominance. Overall, data confirm that observers tend to prioritize goal-related information when processing visual actions but further indicate that this tendency is sensitive to individual social characteristics. Results suggest that goal information may not always drive action understanding and point out the connection between low-level processing of observed actions and more general individual characteristics.
虽然目标通常会推动行动的理解，但这种能力在个体之间也容易出现重要的变化，其起源可能在于个体的社会特征。本研究旨在评估在动作早期视觉处理过程中，个体对目标信息的优先程度与几个社会维度之间的关系。本研究使用 Decroix 和 Kalénine（Exp Brain Res 236(8):2411-2426, 2018）开发的启动协议，评估了 64 名参与者在动作识别过程中对握力和目标信息的视觉处理。目标导向动作照片通过共享相同目标和/或相同握力的照片进行启动。评估了不同启动持续时间下目标和握力启动对动作识别的影响。同一批参与者进一步填写了描述个人与社会环境互动方式的问卷，即他们的社会权力感、支配感、换位思考和构念水平。在群体水平上，结果证实了最短启动持续时间下目标启动对动作识别的影响大于握力启动。在动作启动协议中反应时间模式与问卷得分之间的回归分析进一步表明，目标优先于握力启动与更高的社会权力感相关，可能与较低的支配感相关。总体而言，数据证实了观察者在处理视觉动作时倾向于优先考虑与目标相关的信息，但进一步表明这种倾向对个体社会特征敏感。结果表明，目标信息并不总是驱动动作理解，并指出了观察到的动作的低级处理与更一般的个体特征之间的联系。
