Grasping the pain: Motor resonance with dangerous affordances

Anelli, Filomena; Borghi, Anna M.; Nicoletti, Roberto

doi:10.1016/j.concog.2012.09.001

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“…It is possible that motor resonance had a positive impact on learning the stories in the present study. In the context of motion perception, males have been found to show stronger motor resonance when observing males' than females' movements (Anelli, Borghi, & Nicoletti, 2012). In the present study, a male's storytelling might have triggered stronger motor resonance in males compared to a female's storytelling, thus resulting in a better story recall.…”

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Learning under your gaze: the mediating role of affective arousal between perceived direct gaze and memory performance

Helminen

Pasanen

Hietanen

2015

Psychological Research

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Previous studies have shown that cognitive performance can be affected by the presence of an observer and self-directed gaze. We investigated whether the effect of gaze direction (direct vs. downcast) on verbal memory is mediated by autonomic arousal. Male participants responded with enhanced affective arousal to both male and female storytellers' direct gaze which, according to a path analysis, was negatively associated with the performance. On the other hand, parallel to this arousal-mediated effect, males' performance was affected by another process impacting the performance positively and suggested to be related to effort allocation on the task. The effect of this process was observed only when the storyteller was a male. The participants remembered more details from a story told by a male with a direct vs. downcast gaze. The effect of gaze direction on performance was the opposite for female storytellers, which was explained by the arousal-mediated process. Surprisingly, these results were restricted to male participants only and no effects of gaze were observed among female participants. We also investigated whether the participants' belief of being seen or not (through an electronic window) by the storyteller influenced the memory and arousal, but this manipulation had no effect on the results.

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Learning under your gaze: the mediating role of affective arousal between perceived direct gaze and memory performance

Helminen

Pasanen

Hietanen

2015

Psychological Research

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“…27 Remember that AIP is involved in a functional interplay with the inferotemporal areas (TEm, TE and TEO). facilitating motor response, dangerous objects that pose a potential risk evoke aversive action possibilities, generating an interference-effect: information about an object's potential risks conflicts with the motor actions that are activated while observing that object (Anelli, Borghi, & Nicoletti, 2012). I cannot go into great detail here.…”

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Through the forest of motor representations

Ferretti

2016

Consciousness and Cognition

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“…The level of dangerousness of the objects has been evaluated in the original studies and the categorization of the noxious and neutral objects have been demonstrated to be valid (Anelli et al, 2012, 2013). There were four kinds of pictures: grasping a noxious object, grasping a neutral object, withdrawing from a noxious object, and withdrawing from a neutral object.…”

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The Temporal Dynamics of Perceiving Other’s Painful Actions

Cui

Zhu

et al. 2016

Front. Psychol.

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The present study investigates the temporal dynamics of the brain activity predicting the sensory outcomes of observed hand–object interactions of others. Participants are presented with pictures of a hand grasping or withdrawing from noxious and neutral objects. They are then asked to judge whether this hand–object interaction causes painful consequences. In the early stages of stimulus processing, the effect of action was observed in the event-related potential components N1 and N2. Significant interactions of action × object were observed in the later components P3 and late positive potential (LPP): only when the object was noxious, the action “grasp” elicited a significantly larger amplitude than the action “withdrawal”. These results suggest that: on the one hand, when observing the hand–object interaction from the third-person perspective, the action type of others can be processed in an automatic style. On the other hand, integrating the information of action and object to predict the sensory consequence of this interaction is a top–down, cognitive controlled processing. The current findings are different from previous studies using first-person perspective visual stimuli which support that the processing of hand–object interaction is rapid and automatic.

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Grasping the pain: Motor resonance with dangerous affordances

Cited by 63 publications

References 33 publications

Learning under your gaze: the mediating role of affective arousal between perceived direct gaze and memory performance

Learning under your gaze: the mediating role of affective arousal between perceived direct gaze and memory performance

Through the forest of motor representations

The Temporal Dynamics of Perceiving Other’s Painful Actions

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