Knowledge of response location alone is not sufficient to generate social inhibition of return

Welsh, Timothy N.; Manzone, Joseph; McDougall, Laura

doi:10.1016/j.actpsy.2014.10.007

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“…In healthy individuals, this task generally elicits both individual and social IOR, both reliable and of the same magnitude 20 , and several recent studies have deeply explored this phenomenon 13 34 35 . Data from Experiment 1, in which healthy individuals were tested, confirmed this pattern of results.…”

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Altered social attention in anorexia nervosa during real social interaction

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Castelli

Scatturin

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The capacity to devote attentional resources in response to body-related signals provided by others is still largely unexplored in individuals with Anorexia Nervosa (AN). Here, we tested this capacity through a novel paradigm that mimics a social interaction with a real partner. Healthy individuals (Experiment 1) and individuals with AN (Experiment 2) completed a task with another person which consisted in performing, alternatively, rapid aiming movements to lateralised targets. Generally, this task leads to a form of Inhibition of Return (IOR), which consists of longer reaction times when an individual has to respond to a location previously searched by either himself (individual IOR) or by the partner (social IOR) as compared to previously unexplored locations. IOR is considered as an important attentional mechanism that promotes an effective exploration of the environment during social interaction. Here, healthy individuals displayed both individual and social IOR that were both reliable and of the same magnitude. Individuals with AN displayed a non-significant individual IOR but a reliable social IOR that was also significantly stronger than individual IOR. These results suggest the presence of a reduced sensitivity in processing body-related stimuli conveyed by oneself in individuals with AN which is reflected in action-based attentional processes.

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Altered social attention in anorexia nervosa during real social interaction

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Castelli

Scatturin

et al. 2016

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“…Further work has shown that participants' belief that an observed action is made to a specific location is not sufficient to generate social IOR. Welsh, Manzone, and McDougall (2014) found that an auditory cue which featured no spatial dimension failed to induce social IOR, indicating that some direct visual input is necessary for the effect. This study shows that whether the effect is due to corepresentation or attentional cueing, some direct visual signal of action, head or gaze movement is required.…”

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Visual attention and action: How cueing, direct mapping, and social interactions drive orienting

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Despite considerable interest in both action perception and social attention over the last 2 decades, there has been surprisingly little investigation concerning how the manual actions of other humans orient visual attention. The present review draws together studies that have measured the orienting of attention, following observation of another's goal-directed action. Our review proposes that, in line with the literature on eye gaze, action is a particularly strong orienting cue for the visual system. However, we additionally suggest that action may orient visual attention using mechanisms, which gaze direction does not (i.e., neural direct mapping and corepresentation). Finally, we review the implications of these gaze-independent mechanisms for the study of attention to action. We suggest that our understanding of attention to action may benefit from being studied in the context of joint action paradigms, where the role of higher level action goals and social factors can be investigated.

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“…Only one published report has examined whether knowing where another person has searched induces social IOR. Welsh et al (2014) obscured all visible partner responses via the use of goggles, but co-actors received auditory information (a high or low tone in one study, and Bblue^or Bgreen^indicating the color of the target in a second study) that informed them as to where their co-actor had just reached to. Results showed no social IOR effect in this scenario.…”

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“…This pattern of response initiation times (reaction times or RTs) has come to be known as the social inhibition of return effect (social IOR) because the task and pattern of RTs mimic the inhibition of return phenomenon observed in paradigms in which individuals perform alone (see Klein, 2000, for review). A large number of experiments have now been published that have employed this joint action paradigm, all of which have helped to determine the effect's various characteristics and parameters (e.g., Atkinson, Skarratt, Simpson, & Cole, 2014;Cole, Skarratt, & Billing, 2012;Cole, Wright, Doneva, & Skarratt, 2015;Cole, Atkinson, D'Souza, Welsh, & Skarratt, 2018;Doneva & Cole, 2014;Hayes, Hansen, & Elliott, 2010;Janczyk, Welsh, & Dolk, 2016;Lyons, Weeks, & Elliott, 2013;Ondobaka, de Lange, Newman-Norlund, Wiemers, & Bekkering, 2012;Skarratt, Cole, & Kingstone, 2010;Welsh et al, 2005;Welsh et al, 2007;Welsh, Manzone, & McDougall, 2014;Welsh, McDougall, & Weeks, 2009a;Welsh, Ray, Weeks, Dewey, & Elliott, 2009b). In the present article, we review the literature with a view to identifying why so-called Bsocial IOR^occurs.…”

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The role of transients in action observation

Cole

Welsh

Skarratt

2019

Atten Percept Psychophys

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A large number of studies have now described the various ways in which the observation of another person's dynamic movement can influence the speed with which the observer is able to prepare a motor action themselves. The typical results are most often explained with reference to theories that link perception and action. Such theories argue that the cognitive structures associated with each share common representations. Consequently, action preparation and action observation are often said to be functionally equivalent. However, the dominance of these theories in explaining action observation effects has masked the potential contribution from processes associated with the detection of low-level Btransients^resulting from observing a body movement, such as motion and sound. In the present review, we describe work undertaken in one particular action observation phenomenon (Bsocial inhibition of return^) and show that the transient account provides the best explanation of the effect. We argue that future work should consider attention capture and orienting as a potential contributing factor to action observation effects more broadly.

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Knowledge of response location alone is not sufficient to generate social inhibition of return

Cited by 9 publications

References 19 publications

Altered social attention in anorexia nervosa during real social interaction

Altered social attention in anorexia nervosa during real social interaction

Visual attention and action: How cueing, direct mapping, and social interactions drive orienting

The role of transients in action observation

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