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The Social Brain: Motor Similarity Sharpens Affective Intention Decoding

2025-09-10

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<p>Humans readily infer others’ feelings from how they move, yet the computational principlesthat support this ability remain debated. Two prominent accounts propose either direct motormatching or predictive coding mechanisms. Here we combine motion-capture, behavior asses-sments, and fMRI multivoxel pattern analysis to test whether an observer’s own motor reper-toire operates as an embodied prior during affective...

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Literature Corpus work: ed6a73cc-3da7-56ff-9fb4-4e083cb04749
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/9ak4m_v1

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