Wolfgang Prinz
Biographic Data
| ID | 6027717 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Wolfgang Prinz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Wolfgang |
| FAMILY NAME | Prinz |
| SIGNATURE | PRINZ W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6846-5945 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 24 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Contingency and similarity in response selection
This paper explores issues of task representation in choice reaction time tasks. How is it possible, and what does it take, to represent such a task in a way that enables a performer to do the task in line with the prescriptions entailed in the instructions? First, a framework for task representation is outlined which combines the implementation of task sets and their use for performance with different kinds of representational operations (pertai…
Modeling self on others
Self in the mirror
Action science
Disorders of Volition
Philosophers, psychologists, neuroscientists, and psychiatrists examine the will and its pathologies from theoretical and empirical perspectives, offering a conceptual overview and discussing schizophrenia, depression, prefrontal lobe damage, and substance abuse as disorders of volition. Science tries to understand human action from two perspectives, the cognitive and the volitional. The volitional approach, in contrast to the more dominant "outs…
Means‐End Behavior in Young Infants
In 2 experiments, the interplay of action perception and action production was investigated in 6‐month‐old infants. In Experiment 1, infants received 2 versions of a means‐end task in counterbalanced order. In the action perception version, a preferential looking paradigm in which infants were shown an actor performing means‐end behavior with an expected and an unexpected outcome was used. In the action production version, infants had to pull a c…
Disentangling embodied and symbolic modes of social understanding
Becoming a social agent
In this paper, we argue that young infants serve as ideal models for disentangling the relative contributions of embodied and symbolic processes to mature social cognition and behavior. Based on evidence suggesting that infants possess a nascent ability to understand others' actions, and to interact and communicate with others in meaningful ways, we argue that the embodiment processes underlying these skills in infancy may also account for a sign…
Modelling Shared Contexts in Cooperative Environments
Representing others' actions
Neurons don’t represent
Emerging selves
A hypothetical evolutionary scenario is offered meant to account for the emergence of mental selves. According to the scenario, mental selves are constructed to solve a source-attribution problem. They emerge when internally generated mental contents (e.g., thoughts and goals) are treated like messages arising from external personal sources. As a result, mental contents becomes attributed to the self as an internal personal source. According to t…
The early origins of goal attribution in infancy
Situative cooperation support for communities
This paper describes new ways for virtual communities to create and share information, to structure and rate the relevant aspects of shared information, and to be aware of the ongoing activities in communities. It presents the Community Toolbar, a browser integrated portal solution which provides functions for communities so that they become a lively and growing. Especially the paper focuses the support of group awareness in communities. First, w…
The Theory of Event Coding (TEC)
Traditional approaches to human information processing tend to deal with perception and action planning in isolation, so that an adequate account of the perception-action interface is still missing. On the perceptual side, the dominant cognitive view largely underestimates, and thus fails to account for, the impact of action-related processes on both the processing of perceptual information and on perceptual learning. On the action side, most app…
Der Computer als soziales Medium
From Web to Workplace
Compatibility between Observed and Executed Finger Movements
PoliawaC
Web-Browsing on stage
In many situations users can benefit from group awareness--information about remote users' presence, availability, activities and other information about the remote environment. In this paper we present the Theatre of Work Enabling Relationships (TOWER) awareness environment. We particularly focus on the presentation of the awareness information in a 3D world and on mobile devices. Furthermore, we introduce awareness contexts for structuring awar…
GROUP'97 conference report
No abstract available
Perception and Action Planning
A new framework for the understanding of functional relationships between perception and action is discussed. According to this framework, perceived events and planned actions share a common representational domain (common-coding approach). Supporting evidence from two classes of experimental paradigms is presented: induction paradigms and interference paradigms. Induction paradigms study how certain stimuli induce certain actions by virtue of si…
The Politeam project
No abstract available
Introducing groupware in organizations
No abstract available
Contexts, work processes, and workspaces
Becoming a social agent
In this paper, we argue that young infants serve as ideal models for disentangling the relative contributions of embodied and symbolic processes to mature social cognition and behavior. Based on evidence suggesting that infants possess a nascent ability to understand others' actions, and to interact and communicate with others in meaningful ways, we argue that the embodiment processes underlying these skills in infancy may also account for a sign…
Contexts, work processes, and workspaces
Perception and Action Planning
A new framework for the understanding of functional relationships between perception and action is discussed. According to this framework, perceived events and planned actions share a common representational domain (common-coding approach). Supporting evidence from two classes of experimental paradigms is presented: induction paradigms and interference paradigms. Induction paradigms study how certain stimuli induce certain actions by virtue of si…
The Politeam project
No abstract available
Introducing groupware in organizations
No abstract available
GROUP'97 conference report
No abstract available
Compatibility between Observed and Executed Finger Movements
PoliawaC
Web-Browsing on stage
In many situations users can benefit from group awareness--information about remote users' presence, availability, activities and other information about the remote environment. In this paper we present the Theatre of Work Enabling Relationships (TOWER) awareness environment. We particularly focus on the presentation of the awareness information in a 3D world and on mobile devices. Furthermore, we introduce awareness contexts for structuring awar…
The Theory of Event Coding (TEC)
Traditional approaches to human information processing tend to deal with perception and action planning in isolation, so that an adequate account of the perception-action interface is still missing. On the perceptual side, the dominant cognitive view largely underestimates, and thus fails to account for, the impact of action-related processes on both the processing of perceptual information and on perceptual learning. On the action side, most app…
Der Computer als soziales Medium
From Web to Workplace
Situative cooperation support for communities
This paper describes new ways for virtual communities to create and share information, to structure and rate the relevant aspects of shared information, and to be aware of the ongoing activities in communities. It presents the Community Toolbar, a browser integrated portal solution which provides functions for communities so that they become a lively and growing. Especially the paper focuses the support of group awareness in communities. First, w…
Representing others' actions
Neurons don’t represent
Emerging selves
A hypothetical evolutionary scenario is offered meant to account for the emergence of mental selves. According to the scenario, mental selves are constructed to solve a source-attribution problem. They emerge when internally generated mental contents (e.g., thoughts and goals) are treated like messages arising from external personal sources. As a result, mental contents becomes attributed to the self as an internal personal source. According to t…
The early origins of goal attribution in infancy
Modelling Shared Contexts in Cooperative Environments
Disorders of Volition
Philosophers, psychologists, neuroscientists, and psychiatrists examine the will and its pathologies from theoretical and empirical perspectives, offering a conceptual overview and discussing schizophrenia, depression, prefrontal lobe damage, and substance abuse as disorders of volition. Science tries to understand human action from two perspectives, the cognitive and the volitional. The volitional approach, in contrast to the more dominant "outs…
Means‐End Behavior in Young Infants
In 2 experiments, the interplay of action perception and action production was investigated in 6‐month‐old infants. In Experiment 1, infants received 2 versions of a means‐end task in counterbalanced order. In the action perception version, a preferential looking paradigm in which infants were shown an actor performing means‐end behavior with an expected and an unexpected outcome was used. In the action production version, infants had to pull a c…
Disentangling embodied and symbolic modes of social understanding
Becoming a social agent
In this paper, we argue that young infants serve as ideal models for disentangling the relative contributions of embodied and symbolic processes to mature social cognition and behavior. Based on evidence suggesting that infants possess a nascent ability to understand others' actions, and to interact and communicate with others in meaningful ways, we argue that the embodiment processes underlying these skills in infancy may also account for a sign…
Self in the mirror
Action science
Modeling self on others
Contingency and similarity in response selection
This paper explores issues of task representation in choice reaction time tasks. How is it possible, and what does it take, to represent such a task in a way that enables a performer to do the task in line with the prescriptions entailed in the instructions? First, a framework for task representation is outlined which combines the implementation of task sets and their use for performance with different kinds of representational operations (pertai…
Psychology (15 works) · Computer Science (13 works) · Action Observation and Synchronization (12 works) · Cognitive psychology (12 works) · Cognitive science (9 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Child and Animal Learning Development (7 works) · Cognition (7 works) · Engineering (6 works) · Epistemology (6 works)