Motor familiarity: Brain activation when watching kinematic displays of one's own movements

Bischoff, Matthias; Zentgraf, Karen; Lorey, Britta; Pilgramm, Sebastian; Balser, Nils; Baumgartner, Elisabeth; Hohmann, Tanja; Stark, Rudolf; Vaitl, Dieter; Munzert, Jörn

doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2012.05.009

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“…Participants generally made more accurate predictions when viewing ''self'' stimuli versus ''other'' stimuli and the interference effects observed for the force-production task were more pronounced for the ''self'' condition. These results are congruent with the hypothesis that self-stimuli are more likely to promote action simulation than observation of a stranger's actions (Knoblich & Prinz, 2001), which has been shown to be true even when participants were unaware that they were watching themselves (Bischoff et al, 2012).…”

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confidence: 84%

“…There is also evidence that predictions made on the basis of ''self'' actions (e.g., Bischoff et al, 2012) lead to increased brain activation in regions of the medial frontal cortex, associated with implicit self-processing, as well as areas of the inferior parietal lobe, thought to involve internal models and the processing of self-other kinematics Ruby & Decety, 2003). The fact that explicit awareness of one's own actions was not needed for simulation to occur in these prior studies, and we did see evidence of simulation with awareness, suggests that awareness is not likely to be a moderator of this process.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This is said to come about because the action being simulated in the observer is the same as that being observed (Bischoff et al, 2012;Knoblich & Flach, 2001;Loula et al, 2005;Repp & Knoblich, 2004). With this in Psychological Research mind, we used both 'self' and 'other' stimuli in the prediction tasks.…”

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An action-incongruent secondary task modulates prediction accuracy in experienced performers: evidence for motor simulation

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Lohse

Hodges

2015

Psychological Research

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We provide behavioral evidence that the human motor system is involved in the perceptual decision processes of skilled performers, directly linking prediction accuracy to the (in)ability of the motor system to activate in a response-specific way. Experienced and non-experienced dart players were asked to predict, from temporally occluded video sequences, the landing position of a dart thrown previously by themselves (self) or another (other). This prediction task was performed while additionally performing (a) an action-incongruent secondary motor task (right arm force production), (b) a congruent secondary motor task (mimicking) or (c) an attention-matched task (tone-monitoring). Non-experienced dart players were not affected by any of the secondary task manipulations, relative to control conditions, yet prediction accuracy decreased for the experienced players when additionally performing the force-production, motor task. This interference effect was present for 'self' as well as 'other' decisions, reducing the accuracy of experienced participants to a novice level. The mimicking (congruent) secondary task condition did not interfere with (or facilitate) prediction accuracy for either group. We conclude that visual-motor experience moderates the process of decision making, such that a seemingly visual-cognitive prediction task relies on activation of the motor system for experienced performers. This fits with a motor simulation account of action prediction in sports and other tasks, and alerts to the specificity of these simulative processes.

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An action-incongruent secondary task modulates prediction accuracy in experienced performers: evidence for motor simulation

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“…Both the activation in the novices and the deactivation in the experienced subjects were more pronounced in the right SM than the left SM. Based on both possibilities discussed earlier this could be expected; the right SM has been reported to be the neural coder of peripersonal space and corporeal awareness [11,13,18,19,[28][29][30], also its role in attention reorienting/inhibition is often with right side dominancy [26,27]. Interestingly, most studies on SM activation during IAA have reported right-lateralized results [5,[8][9][10].…”

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“…Several of such neuroimaging studies have reported supramarginal (SM) recruitment, especially in the right hemisphere, during execution of IAA tasks [5,[8][9][10] to play a role in encoding peripersonal space [11,12] to form an egocentric representation of the corporeal self [13]. It has been suggested that the inferior parietal regions form a suitable hub for integrating sensory information across modalities [14].…”

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Supramarginal activity in interoceptive attention tasks

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Sugiura

Nozawa

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Neuroscience Letters

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Interoceptive (feelings from inside organs) attention/awareness (IAA) is a body-related aspect of cognition that pursues homeostasis by detecting afferent signals, and there are practices aimed at focusing one's attention and awareness towards such feelings inside one's own body. There is a claim that these practices improve health which is one reason that neural correlates of such practices and IAA in general have been investigated in previous imaging studies. In several of these studies which used subjects with no or limited experience in IAA practices there was a report of supramarginal (SM) activity during IAA tasks, but the role of SM in IAA remain unclear. We first investigated if we could find similar results in novices, and if this activity is sensitive to the designated body part in the IAA task. We further investigated if these regions would be similarly recruited in subjects with extensive experience of IAA tasks while comparing results with a group of age and gender matched novices. Results in the novices replicated that of previous studies, and we showed this is the same for IAA tasks regarding two different parts of the body. Group comparison results showed opposite profiles of SM activation for the two groups; novices showed activation and the experts showed deactivation of the SM. The results suggest that novices recruit SM during IAA possibly due to lack of experience in those tasks but this could be alleviated for performing IAA as illustrated by activation profile in experts.

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Prediction of human actions: Expertise and task‐related effects on neural activation of the action observation network

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Lorey

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Human Brain Mapping

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The action observation network (AON) is supposed to play a crucial role when athletes anticipate the effect of others' actions in sports such as tennis. We used functional magnetic resonance imaging to explore whether motor expertise leads to a differential activation pattern within the AON during effect anticipation and whether spatial and motor anticipation tasks are associated with a differential activation pattern within the AON depending on participant expertise level. Expert (N=16) and novice (N=16) tennis players observed video clips depicting forehand strokes with the instruction to either indicate the predicted direction of ball flight (spatial anticipation) or to decide on an appropriate response to the observed action (motor anticipation). The experts performed better than novices on both tennis anticipation tasks, with the experts showing stronger neural activation in areas of the AON, namely, the superior parietal lobe, the intraparietal sulcus, the inferior frontal gyrus, and the cerebellum. When novices were contrasted with experts, motor anticipation resulted in stronger activation of the ventral premotor cortex, the supplementary motor area, and the superior parietal lobe than spatial anticipation task did. In experts, the comparison of motor and spatial anticipation revealed no increased activation. We suggest that the stronger activation of areas in the AON during the anticipation of action effects in experts reflects their use of the more fine-tuned motor representations they have acquired and improved during years of training. Furthermore, results suggest that the neural processing of different anticipation tasks depends on the expertise level.

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Motor familiarity: Brain activation when watching kinematic displays of one's own movements

Cited by 25 publications

References 52 publications

An action-incongruent secondary task modulates prediction accuracy in experienced performers: evidence for motor simulation

An action-incongruent secondary task modulates prediction accuracy in experienced performers: evidence for motor simulation

Supramarginal activity in interoceptive attention tasks

Prediction of human actions: Expertise and task‐related effects on neural activation of the action observation network

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