what are they up to the role of sensory evidence and prior knowledge in action understanding他们的角色感觉证据和先验知识在行动的理解.pdfVIP

What Are They Up To? The Role of Sensory Evidence and Prior Knowledge in Action Understanding 1 1 2 3 1 Valerian Chambon *, Philippe Domenech , Elisabeth Pacherie , Etienne Koechlin , Pierre Baraduc , ¨ ´ 4,5 Chloe Farrer ´ 1 Centre de Neuroscience Cognitive, Universite de Lyon, CNRS, Bron, France, 2 Institut Jean Nicod, EHESS, DEC-ENS, CNRS, Paris, France, 3 INSERM, Ecole Normale ´ ´ ´ ´ Superieure, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France, 4 Centre de Recherche Cerveau et Cognition, Universite de Toulouse, UPS-CNRS, Toulouse, France, 5 Faculte de ´ Medecine de Rangueil, Toulouse, France Abstract Explaining or predicting the behaviour of our conspecifics requires the ability to infer the intentions that motivate it. Such inferences are assumed to rely on two types of information: (1) the sensory information conveyed by movement kinematics and (2) the observer’s prior expectations – acquired from past experience or derived from prior knowledge. However, the respective contribution of these two sources of information is still controversial. This controversy stems in part from the fact that ‘‘intention’’ is an umbrella term that may embrace various sub-types each being assigned different scopes and targets. We hypothesized that variations in the scope and target of intentions may account for variations in the contribution of visual kinematics and prior knowledge to the intention inference process. To test this hypothesis, we conducted four behavioural experiments in which part