{"id":7543,"date":"2019-05-22T15:58:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T15:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/common_coding\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T15:58:00","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T15:58:00","slug":"common_coding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/common_coding\/","title":{"rendered":"Common coding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A recent hypothesis in cognitive neuroscience, put forward by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbs.mpg.de\/staff\/prinz-10359\" target=\"_self\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/www.cbs.mpg.de\/staff\/prinz-10359  &amp;target=_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wolfgang Prinz i<\/a>n 1997, stating that perception and action are not independent systems, but rather share resources and mutually influence each other. &nbsp;Thus, action perception and action planning draw on common psychological codes and amodal representational frameworks. &nbsp;As suggested by Prinz, common coding may most appropriately apply to &#8216;high-level&#8217; processing at cognitive levels of representation. &nbsp;There is as yet no conclusive evidence in support of a well-identified neural substrate for a common coding between perception and action. &nbsp;Nevertheless, the hypothesis, a close cousin of the two visual systems hypothesis, continues to have an important influence on studies of imitation as it holds that action planning is activated during perception.<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"active_intermodal_matching_-aim-\">Active intermodal matching (AIM)<\/a>, <a href=\"amodal\">Amodal<\/a>, <a href=\"cognitive_neuroscience\">Cognitive neuroscience<\/a>, <a href=\"correspondence_problem\">Correspondence problem<\/a>, <a href=\"dorsal_visual_pathway_-or_stream-\">Dorsal visual pathway (or stream)<\/a>, <a href=\"imitation\">Imitation<\/a>, <a href=\"mirror_neurons\">Mirror neurons<\/a>, <a href=\"perception-action_coupling\">Perception-action coupling<\/a>, <a href=\"shared_neural_representations\">Shared neural representations<\/a>, <a href=\"representation_-mental-\">Representation (mental)<\/a>, <a href=\"two_visual_systems_hypothesis\">Two visual systems hypothesis<\/a>, Ventral visual pathway (or stream)<\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent hypothesis in cognitive neuroscience, put forward by Wolfgang Prinz in 1997, stating that perception and action are not independent systems, but rather share resources and mutually influence each other. &nbsp;Thus, action perception and action planning draw on common psychological codes and amodal representational frameworks. &nbsp;As suggested by Prinz, common coding may most appropriately &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/common_coding\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Common coding&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-7543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}