[4] This theory, put forward by Wolfgang Prinz and his colleagues from the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, claims parity between perception and action.
Its core assumption is that actions are coded in terms of the perceivable effects (i.e., the distal perceptual events) they should generate.
Second, a common cognitive system predicts facilitation of action based on directly prior perception and vice versa.
Third, such a system predicts interference effects when action and perception attempt to access shared representations simultaneously.
From the year 2000 onwards, a growing number of results have been interpreted in favor of the common coding theory.
Compliance with this law was reflected in the activation of a large network of brain areas subserving motor production, visual motion processing, and action observation functions.
Actions are represented like any other events, the sole distinctive feature being that they are (or can be) generated through bodily movements.
While most traditional approaches tend to stress the relative independence of perception and action, some theories have argued for closer links.
[22][23] Common coding theory has further sparked refined theoretical frameworks that build on its notion of a shared representational format for action and perception.