How motor representation shapes action experience?

There is a great deal of studies showing that motor processes and representations are involved in sub-personal processing of observed actions. However, so far little research has directly explored whether our own motor system may affect the way we make experience of others’ actions. How and to what extent our motor processing of others’ actions may influence our perceptual experience of them?We designed and tested a behavioural model. The protocol consist in two phases: (i) assessing the power of the tool as a good measure for apparent movement judgments (ii) manipulating the observer’s motor system state.