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An enhanced experimental procedure to rationalize on the impairment of perception of action capabilities

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It is well documented that changes in the physiological states of the perceiver–actor influence the perception of action capabilities. However, because experimental procedures of most studies involved a limitless availability for stimuli visual encoding and perceptual strategies, it remains difficult to adopt a single position among the large range of alternative interpretations for impaired perception. A reaching-to-grasp paradigm under breathing restriction was adapted from Graydon et al. (Cogn Emot 26:1301–1305, 2012) to standardize the time for encoding of stimuli information and narrowed the involvement of perceptual strategies. In the present study, we propose a highly controlled environment where the discrete information is presented during 300 ms, congruently with neurophysiological studies focused on visuomotor transformation. An underestimation of the perception of action capabilities is found under breath restriction, suggesting that 300 ms for stimuli encoding is sufficient to induce altered visuomotor brain transformations when limiting the involvement of perceptual strategies. This result suggests that such behavior could refer to an impaired brain potentiation of the perceptual occurrence, providing strong hypotheses on the brain dynamics of sensorimotor integration that underlie impaired perception of action capabilities in stressful situations.

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  1. Laboratory “Motricité, Interactions, Performance” (UPRES EA 4334), University of Nantes, 25 bis boulevard Guy Mollet, BP 72206, 44322, Nantes Cedex 3, France

    Yannick Daviaux, Christophe Cornu & Thibault Deschamps

  2. Laboratory “PRISSMH” (EA 4651), University of Paul Sabatier Toulouse 3, 31062, Toulouse, France

    Sylvain Cremoux & Jessica Tallet

  3. LAMIH, UMR CNRS 8201, Université de Valenciennes et du Hainaut-Cambrésis, Valenciennes, France

    Sylvain Cremoux

  4. Inserm, Imagerie cérébrale et handicaps neurologiques UMR 825, Toulouse, France

    David Amarantini

  5. UPS, Imagerie cérébrale et handicaps neurologiques UMR 825, Université de Toulouse, Toulouse, France

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Daviaux, Y., Cremoux, S., Tallet, J. et al. An enhanced experimental procedure to rationalize on the impairment of perception of action capabilities. Psychological Research 80, 224–234 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-015-0653-1

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