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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"action intention"”.
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Action, intention and knowledge
… knowledge’; the knowledge we have of our own intentional actions. Part One introduces the target notion by describing three philosophically interesting features it appears to have (Ch. 1) and dismisses two broad approaches to understanding it – a ‘consciousness-based’ and an ‘inferentialist’ …
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Action Intention Modulates the Activity Pattern in Early Visual Areas
… cortex (EVC) can be used to predict upcoming actions as it is functionally connected to higher-order motor areas. However, the mechanism by which the EVC enhances action-relevant features is unclear. We explored this using fMRI. Participants performed Align or Open Hand movements to two …
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Action Intention Modulates the Temporal Dynamics of Object Feature Representation: An Electrophysiological Approach
Action intention has been shown to influence the computation of visual features in a task-relevant manner. Ideomotor theories would suggest that the intention to act on an object is sufficient to integrate its task-relevant visual features, however, support for these theories draw from paradigms …
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Who are you and how many? The role of individual knowledge and group knowledge in social predictions
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Action Intentions and the Puzzle of Non-Willed Behaviour
It feels intuitive that our actions are intentional, but there is considerable debate about whether (and how) humans control their behaviour. Ideomotor models of action argue that action intentions have a fundamentally perceptual format. In these views, actions are not only controlled by …
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Children’s recognition of emotional tone-of-voice
… than positive, offering some support to action intention and negativity bias. Overall, passages were well-recognised but not necessarily better than shorter, sentence-stimuli. A third investigation considered whether practice/training could improve children’s emotion recognition. Children …
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Designing Robot Non-Verbal Behaviour: Using Performing Art Techniques as Frameworks for Human–Robot Interaction
… and work, achieving natural and efficient interaction has become a central concern in human–robot interaction (HRI). Robot behaviour design plays a key role in enabling interpretable and effective interaction. This thesis adopts a bibliometric approach to review robot behaviour research from …
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The influence of the past in visual perception in autism
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One little world: Investigating context-driven object transformations in brain and behavior
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Inside out: How can the internal structure of the mental lexicon support autonomous foreign vocabulary learning?
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What determines vision? Bottom-up and top-down influences on visual perception
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Temporal crossroads: Probing the dynamics of experience to refine theories of consciousness
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Cerebral mechanisms of processing action goals in self and others
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Eyeing and grasping the other's intentions: When inferring another's acts affects our own attention
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Multisensory integration in spatial orientation and self-motion perception
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Predictive adaptation in early auditory processing
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Action prediction and the development thereof
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A Developmental Theory of Intention
… I advance a developmental theory of intention, according to which an intention is an action under development. In chapter 1, I define and explain the major theories in contention and offer some motivations for each. The theory that an intention is a belief (cognitivism) can help us …