What's your point? Insights from virtual reality on the relation between intention and action in the production of pointing gestures
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21307262 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Renuka Raghavan (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics), Limor Raviv (0000-0002-0716-3553, University of Glasgow), David Peeters (0000-0002-7974-9246, Tilburg University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 240 |
| Pages | 105581 |
| Publication date | 2023-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cognition (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0010-0277 • E-ISSN: 1873-7838 |
| Publisher | Elsevier BV (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.cognition.2023.105581 |
| PMID | 37573692 |
| OpenAlex | W4385759218 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 75 |
Human communication involves the process of translating intentions into communicative actions. But how exactly do our intentions surface in the visible communicative behavior we display? Here we focus on pointing gestures, a fundamental building block of everyday communication, and investigate whether and how different types of underlying intent modulate the kinematics of the pointing hand and the brain activity preceding the gestural movement. In a dynamic virtual reality environment, participants pointed at a referent to either share attention with their addressee, inform their addressee, or get their addressee to perform an action. Behaviorally, it was observed that these different underlying intentions modulated how long participants kept their arm and finger still, both prior to starting the movement and when keeping their pointing hand in apex position. In early planning stages, a neurophysiological distinction was observed between a gesture that is used to share attitudes and knowledge with another person versus a gesture that mainly uses that person as a means to perform an action. Together, these findings suggest that our intentions influence our actions from the earliest neurophysiological planning stages to the kinematic endpoint of the movement itself
Action (physics) · Cognitive psychology · Focus (optics) · Gesture · Kinematics · Linguistics · Movement (music) · Nonverbal communication · Referent · Action Observation and Synchronization · Artificial Intelligence · Communication · Computer Science · Hearing Impairment and Communication · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |