AUTHOR=Elsner Claudia , Falck-Ytter Terje , Gredebäck Gustaf 

TITLE=Humans Anticipate the Goal of other People’s Point-Light Actions

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Psychology

VOLUME=Volume 3 - 2012

YEAR=2012

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00120

DOI=10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00120

ISSN=1664-1078

ABSTRACT=This eye tracking study investigated the degree to which low-level kinematic information from manual point-light (PL) displays provides sufficient information to elicit anticipatory eye movements. We compared gaze performance of adults observing a biological point-light animation of a manual reaching action or a non-biological version of the same event. Participants anticipated the biological motion PL display but not a non-biological control condition. The present study is the first to demonstrate that low-level kinematic information can be used to anticipate the goal of other people's point-light actions.