My face through the looking-glass: The effect of mirror reversal on reflection size estimation

Diéguez, Sebastian; Scherer, J.; Blanke, Olaf

doi:10.1016/j.concog.2011.06.003

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“…The visual body identity can be considered a perceptual element of the more general concept of the 'body image' which has been defined as the perceptual, conceptual and emotional representations of the body which are not related to action (de Vignemont, 2010). Many studies have focused on the behavioral and neural mechanisms underlying the visual recognition of one's own face (Devue & Bredart, 2011;Dieguez, Scherer, & Blanke, 2011;Kircher et al, 2000;Platek et al, 2006;Uddin, Kaplan, Molnar-Szakacs, Zaidel, & Iacoboni, 2005) and body (Frassinetti, Ferri, Maini, Benassi, & Gallese, 2011;Frassinetti et al, 2009;Myers & Sowden, 2008;Sugiura et al, 2006). For example, one study investigated the neural correlates of recognition of the self, a familiar other and a stranger from facial and body movies and pictures.…”

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“…In this way we controlled for the possible confound that eventual differences in the CCE are partly driven by familiarity (i.e. own body image is more familiar than the image of a stranger's body) (Dieguez et al, 2011) rather than by the identity of the body alone. In an additional experiment we tested whether CCEs would be larger for bodies then for a body sized object.…”

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I feel who I see: Visual body identity affects visual–tactile integration in peripersonal space

Salomon

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Consciousness and Cognition

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a b s t r a c tRecent studies have shown the importance of integrating multisensory information in the body representation for constituting self-consciousness. However, one idea that has received only scant attention is that our body representation is also constituted by knowledge of bodily visual characteristics (i.e. 'what I look like'). Here in two experiments we used a full body crossmodal congruency task in which visual distractors were presented on a photograph of the participant, another person, who was either familiar or unfamiliar, or an object. Results revealed that during the 'self-condition' CCEs were enhanced compared to the 'other condition'. The CCE was similar for unfamiliar and familiar others. CCEs for the object condition were significantly smaller. The results show that presentation of an irrelevant image of a body affects multimodal processing and that the effect is enhanced when that image is of the self. The results hold intriguing implications for body representation in social situations.

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I feel who I see: Visual body identity affects visual–tactile integration in peripersonal space

Salomon

Elk

Aspell

et al. 2012

Consciousness and Cognition

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“…This has led us to perceive our normally oriented face as less familiar and possibly harder to recognize than our mirror-oriented face, an effect that is reversed for the faces of other people (Rhodes, 1986). Therefore, Dieguez et al. (2011) highlight the importance of taking face orientation into account when using faces as stimulus materials.…”

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Self-Approach Tendencies: Relations With Explicit and Implicit Self-Evaluations

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We used a newly developed Self-Approach-Avoidance Task (Self-AAT) to measure self-approach tendencies in female students. In this task, participants use a joystick to pull portraits of themselves and of others closer or to push them away. In the three studies, we found a significant self-approach tendency: participants were faster to pull mirror-imaged portraits of themselves closer than to push them away. This approach tendency was reduced for non-mirrored self-portraits, and absent for control pictures showing unknown males, unknown females, or empty backgrounds. Moreover, in two out of the three studies, the self-approach tendency was weakly related to explicit self-valuations measured with the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (RSES), and in one out of two studies, it was related to implicit self-evaluations measured with the Implicit Association Task (IAT). Implications and potential applications of the findings are discussed.

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“…Visual scientists have long studied the mechanisms, development, disorders, and neural correlates of size perception, often exploiting specific visual illusions and examples from natural phenomena and perspective in the visual arts. Most notably, the phenomenon of size-constancy, or “phenomenal regression to the “real” object,” whereby changes in distance do not alter perception of an object’s size, has afforded much insights and experimental paradigms (see e.g., Ross and Plug, 1998 ; Dieguez et al, 2011 ). However, in recent years ecological approaches to perception have been revived, reinstalling bodily and motor processes at the center of the general perceptual mechanisms allowing size perception and estimation.…”

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Micromégas: Altered Body–Environment Scaling in Literary Fiction

Diéguez

2016

Front. Psychol.

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Architectonic embodiment postulates a bidirectional link between bodily awareness and the architectural environment. The standard size and features of the human body, for instance, are thought to influence the structure of interiors and buildings, as well as their perception and appreciation. Whereas architectural practice and theory, the visual arts and more recently the cognitive sciences have explored this relationship of humans with their crafted environments, many fictional literary works have long experimented with alterations of body–environment scaling. This so-called Gulliver theme – popular in the science-fiction genre but also in children’s literature and philosophical satire – reveals, as a recurrent thought-experiment, our preoccupation with proportions and our fascination for the infinitely small and large. Here I provide an overview of the altered scaling theme in literature, including classics such as Voltaire’s Micromégas, Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels, Caroll’s Alice, and Matheson’s The Shrinking man, closely examining issues relevant to architectonic embodiment such as: bodily, perceptual, cognitive, affective, and social changes related to alterations in body size relative to people, objects and architectural environments. I next provide a taxonomy of the Gulliver theme and highlight its main psychological features, and then proceed to review relevant work from cognitive science. Although fictional alterations of body-environment scaling far outreach current possibilities in experimental research, I argue that the peripetiae and morals outlined in the literary realm, as products of the human imagination, provide a unique window into the folk-psychology of body and space.

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My face through the looking-glass: The effect of mirror reversal on reflection size estimation

Cited by 8 publications

References 29 publications

I feel who I see: Visual body identity affects visual–tactile integration in peripersonal space

I feel who I see: Visual body identity affects visual–tactile integration in peripersonal space

Self-Approach Tendencies: Relations With Explicit and Implicit Self-Evaluations

Micromégas: Altered Body–Environment Scaling in Literary Fiction

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