The second-agent effect: communicative gestures increase the likelihood of perceiving a second agent.

BACKGROUND: Beyond providing cues about an agent's intention, communicative actions convey information about the presence of a second agent towards whom the action is directed (second-agent information). In two psychophysical studies we investigated whether the perceptual system makes use of th...

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Main Authors: Valeria Manera, Marco Del Giudice, Bruno G Bara, Karl Verfaillie, Cristina Becchio
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3145660?pdf=render