Motor Priming
One consequence of the functional equivalence between perception and action is that watching an action performed by another person facilitates the later reproduction of that action in the observer. For instance, in one study, participants executed arm movements while observing either a robot or another human producing the same or qualitatively different arm movements. The results show that observing another human make incongruent movements interferes with movement execution but observing a robotic arm making incongruent movements does not.
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