One possible limitation in this analysis is the possibility that participants implicitly made facial movements during perception trials.
Outside the scanner, electromyographic recordings were taken from some subjects to test this possibility, and these results of this analysis, indicating a lack of facial muscle movement during perception trials, are included in the supplementary materials (File S1).
After the pre-action perception trials, participants walked down an 8 m walkway, stepped over a single obstacle (placed at 4 m), and progressed to the end of the walkway.
This shows that one of the core predictions of simulation and common coding theories is correct: a pattern classifier that has learnt to decode which action was heard based on the pattern of brain activity in the premotor cortex during action perception trials can successfully deduce which action was executed in action execution trials.
When comparing imaging data from simple singing trials with data from voice perception trials prior to auditory training, the experimental group recruited a network comprised of auditory cortical regions, sensorimotor cortex, premotor areas, insulae, thalamus, basal ganglia, and cerebellum (Table S1), which is similar to the functional network that we and others previously reported [16] [18].
In total, each participant completed 200 perception trials (eight blocks × 25 trials per block).
This was the sign to prepare for the next trial.During each of the three practice sessions, the participants in the action-training group performed 48 putting trials, while the participants in the perception-training group performed 48 perception trials.
Finally, the retention test was conducted between 2 and 4 days after the posttest.During the pretest, posttest, and retention test, the participants performed a block of 12 perception trials and a block of 12 putting trials, the order of which was counterbalanced across participants.
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