Preprints
Parrotta, E., Bach, P., Pezzulo, G., Costantini, M., Ferri, F. (2023). Exposure to false cardiac feedback alters pain perception and anticipatory cardiac frequency. eLife12:RP90013. Preprint
Parrotta, E., McDonough, K., Enwereuzor, C, Bach, P., (2023). Observers translate information about other agents’ higher-order goals into expectations about their forthcoming action kinematics. OSF. Preprint
Parrotta, E., McDonough, K., Bach, P. (2023). Imagery as predicted perception: imagery predictively biases perceptual judgments of action kinematics. PsyArXiv. Preprint.
Pulling, V., Phillips, L.H., Bach, P., Newlands, A. & Jackson, M. (2023). Using Predictions to Resolve Emotional Ambiguity: Facial Expression Intensity Influences the Reliance on Prior Expectation. PsyArXiv, DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/f75cv. Preprint.
Published
Currie, J., Giannaccini, E.M., & Bach, P. (2024). Sonic Sleight of Hand: Sound Induces Illusory Distortions in the Perception and Prediction of Robot Action. International Journal of Social Robotics, 1-19. Publisher — PDF
Parrotta, E., Bach, P., Perrucci, M. G., Costantini, M., & Ferri, F. (2024). The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things: illusory perception of heartbeat is induced by pain expectation. Cognition, 245, 105719. Publisher
McDonough, K., Bach, P. (2023). Expectations of efficient actions bias social perception: a preregistered online replication. Royal Society Open Science, 10(2). Publisher— PDF — Data
Bach, P., Frank, C., & Kunde, W. (2022). Why motor imagery is not really motoric: Towards a reconceptualization in terms of effect-based action control. Psychological Research. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-022-01773-w. Publisher — PDF
D'Mello, A. M., Bach, P., Corlett, P. R., & Rozenkrantz, L. (2022). Editorial to the special issue: Predictive mechanisms in action, perception, cognition, and clinical disorders. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 598. Publisher
Ward, E., Bach, P., McDonough, K., & Ganis, G. (2022). Is Implicit Level-2 Visual perspective taking embodied? Perceptual simulation of others’ perspectives is not impaired by motor restriction. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. PDF — Preprint — Data
Hudson, M., Nicholson, Kharko, A., T., McKenzie, R., & Bach, P. (2021). Predictive Action Perception from Explicit Intention Information in Autism. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review. Publisher — PDF — Data
Kumar, S., Bach, P. & Kourtis, D (2021). Editorial to the Special Issue: Behavioral and Neural Bases of Object Affordance Processing and its Clinical Implications. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. Publisher
Schenke, K. C., Wyer, N., Tipper, S., & Bach, P. (2020). Predictive person models elicit motor biases: the face-inhibition effect revisited. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 74(1), 54-67. Publisher — PDF — Data
McDonough, K.L., Costantini, M., Hudson, M., Ward, E. & Bach, P. (2020). Affordance matching predictively shapes the perceptual representation of others’ ongoing actions. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. Publisher — PDF — Data
Ward, E., Ganis, G., McDonough, K., & Bach, P. (2020). Perspective taking as virtual navigation? Perceptual simulation of what others see reflects their location in space but not their gaze. Cognition, 199, 104241. Publisher — Preprint — Data
McDonough, K.L., Hudson, M., & Bach, P. (2019). Cues to intention bias action perception toward the most efficient trajectory. Scientific Reports, 9. PDF -- Data
Ward, E., Ganis, G., Bach, P. (2019). Spontaneous Vicarious Perception of the Content of Another’s Visual Perspective. Current Biology. Publisher – PDF — Data
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Hudson, M., McDonough, K. L., Edwards, R., & Bach, P. (2018). Perceptual teleology: expectations of action efficiency bias social perception. Proc. R. Soc. B, 285(1884), 20180638. Publisher -- PDF -- Data
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Colton, J., Bach, P., Whalley, B., & Mitchell, C. J. (2018). Intention insertion: activating an action’s perceptual consequences is sufficient to induce non-willed motor behaviour. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. Publisher -- PDF -- Data
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Hudson, M., Nicholson, T., & Bach, P. (2018). You Said You Would! The Predictability of Other's Behavior from their Intentions Determines Predictive Biases in Action Perception. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. Publisher – PDF – Data
Lange, N., Hollins, T.J., Bach, P. (2017). Testing the Motor Simulation Account of Source Errors for Actions in Recall. Frontiers in Psychology. Publisher -- PDF
Bach, P. & Schenke, K. (2017). Predictive social perception: towards a unifying framework from action observation to person knowledge. Social and Personality Psychology Compass. Publisher – PDF
Nicholson. T., Roser, M., Bach, P. (2017). Action goal understanding is primarily driven by object (not motor) information: evidence from fMRI. PLOS One, 12(1), e0169700. Publisher – PDF – Data
Schenke, K. C., Wyer, N. A., & Bach, P. (2016). The Things You Do: Internal Models of Others’ Expected Behaviour Guide Action Observation. PLoS One, 11(7), e0158910. Publisher – PDF – Data
Hudson, M., Nicholson, T., Simpson, W. A., Ellis, R., & Bach, P. (2016). One step ahead: The perceived kinematics of others’ actions are biased toward expected goals. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 145(1), 1-7. Publisher – PDF – Data
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Hudson, M., Nicholson, T., Ellis, R., & Bach, P. (2016). I see what you say: Prior knowledge of other's goals automatically biases the perception of their actions. Cognition, 146, 245-250. Publisher – PDF – Data
Bach, P., Nicholson, T., & Hudson, M. (2015). Pattern completion does not negate matching: a response to Uithol and Maranesi. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. Publisher – PDF
Joyce, K., Schenke, K., Bayliss, A. & Bach, P. (2015). Looking ahead: Anticipatory cuing of attention to objects others will look at. Cognitive Neuroscience, 1-8. Publisher – PDF – Data
Bach, P., Nicholson, T. and Hudson, M. (2014) The affordance-matching hypothesis: how objects guide action understanding and prediction. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 8:254. Publisher – PDF
Bach, P., Allami, B., Tucker, M. & Ellis, R.(2014). Planning-related motor processes underlie mental practice and imitation learning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. Publisher – PDF
Bach, P., Fenton-Adams, W., & Tipper, S.P. (2014). Can't touch this: the first-person perspective provides privileged access to predictions of sensory action outcomes. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. Publisher – PDF – Data
Morrison, I., Tipper, S. P., Fenton‐Adams, W. L., & Bach, P. (2012). “Feeling” others' painful actions: The sensorimotor integration of pain and action information. Human Brain Mapping, 34(8), 1982–1998. PDF
Hudson, M., Burnett, H.G. & Jellema, T. (2012). Anticipation of intentional actions in high-functioning autism. Journal of Autism & Developmental Disorders, 42(8), PDF
Hudson, M., Nijboer, T. & Jellema, T. (2012). Implicit learning of social information and its relation to autistic traits. Journal of Autism & Developmental Disorders, 42(12), 2534-2545. PDF
Wiggett, A.J., Hudson, M., Clifford, A., Tipper, S.P. & Downing, P. (2012). Doing, seeing, or both: Effects of learning condition on subsequent action perception. Social Neuroscience, 7(6), 606-621. PDF
Bach, P. (2013). The embodiment of linguistic meaning. In: A. Schalley (ed.). Practical Theories and Empirical Practice: A linguistic perspective. John Benjamins Publishing Company. PDF
Bach, P., Bayliss, A.P., Tipper, S.P. (2011). The predictive mirror: interactions of mirror and affordance processes during action observation. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 18(1), 171-6. PDF
Hudson, M. & Jellema, T. (2011). Resolving ambiguous behavioural intentions by means of involuntary prioritisation of gaze processing. Emotion. 11(3), 681-686. PDF
Tipper, S.P. & Bach, P. (2011). The face inhibition effect: Social contrast or motor competition? Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 23(1), 45-51. PDF
Wiggett, A, Hudson, M, Tipper, S. & Downing, P. (2011). Learning associations between action and perception: Effects of incompatible training on body part and spatial priming. Brain and Cognition. 76, 87-96. PDF
Bach, P., Griffiths, D., Weigelt, M., Tipper, S.P. (2010). Gesturing meaning. Non-action words activate the motor system. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 4:214. PDF
Bach, P., Peelen, V.M., Tipper, S.P. (2010). On the role of object information in action observation: an fMRI study. Cerebral Cortex. PDF
Bach, P. & Zaefferer, D. (2010). What exactly is the question-assertion distinction based on? An exploration in experimental speech act theory. In: Hans-Jörg Schmid, Susanne Handl (eds). Cognitive Foundations of pnguistic Usage Patterns. Empirical Studies. Berpn, New York (De Gruyter Mouton).
Bach, P., Gunter, T.C., Knoblich, G., Prinz, W., & Friederici, A.D. (2009). N400-like negativities in action perception reflect two components of an action representation. Social Neuroscience, 4(3), 213-232. PDF
Hudson, M, Hong-Liu, C. & Jellema, T. (2009). Anticipating intentional actions: The effect of eye gaze direction on the judgment of head rotation. Cognition. 112, 423-434. PDF
Tipper, S.P. & Bach, P. (2008). Your own actions influence how you perceive other persons: a misattribution of action appraisals. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. 44, (4), 1082-1090. PDF
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Bach, P., Peatfield, N.A., & Tipper, S.P. (2007). Focusing on body sites: the role of spatial attention in action perception. Experimental Brain Research, 178, 509-517. PDF
Bach, P. & Tipper, S.P. (2007). Implicit action encoding influences personal-trait judgments. Cognition, 102, 151-178. PDF
Bach, P. & Tipper, S.P. (2006). Bend it like Beckham: embodying the motor skills of famous athletes. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 59(12), 2033-2039. PDF
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Bach, P., Knobpch, G., Gunter, T.C., Friederici, A.D., Prinz, W. (2005). Action Comprehension: Deriving Spatial and Functional Relations. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, 31(3), 465-479. PDF
Gunter, T. C., & Bach, P. (2004). Communicating hands: ERPs elcited by meaningful symbolic hand postures. Neuroscience Letters, 372(1-2), 52-56. PDF
Nakamura, A., Maeß, B., Gunter, T.C., Knösche, T.R., Bach, P., Kato, T., et al. (2004). Cooperation of different neural systems during hand sign recognition. NeuroImage, 23, 25-34. PDF
Nakamura, A., Maess, B., Gunter, T.C., Knösche, T.R., Bach, P., Kato, T., Friederici, A.D. (2002). Visual event-related magnetic fields to hand postures. In: Haueisen, J.; Nowak, H.; Gießler, F.; Huonker, R. (eds.). Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Biomagnetism (BIOMAG 2002), 481–483.
Bach, P., Knoblich, G., Friederici, A. D., & Prinz, W. (2001). Comprehension of action sequences: The case of paper, scissors, rock. In K. Stenning & J. D. Moore (Ed.), Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (S. 39-44). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. PDF