Specifying social cognitive processes with a social dual-task paradigm

Liepelt, Roman; Stenzel, Anna; Lappe, Markus

doi:10.3389/fnhum.2012.00086

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“…Most previous neuroimaging studies were not designed to reveal behavioral effects for different action-word types, which requires some sort of context or task manipulation, and their results cannot be compared to ours. Several behavioral studies have reported an interference between semantic sensorimotor features of linguistic stimuli and response execution (e.g., Boulenger et al., 2006 , Glenberg and Kaschak, 2002 , Liepelt et al., 2012 , Meteyard et al., 2008 ). The strongest evidence for a causal role of sensorimotor systems in semantic processing would be a specific break-down or facilitation of semantic processing after specific impairment or stimulation of sensorimotor systems.…”

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“…Thus, rather than showing that word processing activates motor areas, we can potentially reveal whether the activation state of the motor system affects language processing. Similar paradigms have already been used in behavioral and event-related potential (ERP) research ( Boulenger et al., 2006 , Dalla Volta et al., 2009 , Glenberg et al., 2010 , Helbig et al., 2010 , Liepelt et al., 2012 , Sato et al., 2008 , Shebani and Pulvermüller, 2013 , Van Elk et al., 2008 , Van Elk et al., 2010 ). In our approach, we can study the effect of motor priming on both behavior and spatio-temporal brain dynamics.…”

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Movement priming of EEG/MEG brain responses for action-words characterizes the link between language and action

Mollo

Pulvermüller

Hauk

2016

Cortex

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Activation in sensorimotor areas of the brain following perception of linguistic stimuli referring to objects and actions has been interpreted as evidence for strong theories of embodied semantics. Although a large number of studies have demonstrated this “language-to-action” link, important questions about how activation in the sensorimotor system affects language performance (“action-to-language” link) are yet unanswered. As several authors have recently pointed out, the debate should move away from an “embodied or not” focus, and rather aim to characterize the functional contributions of sensorimotor systems to language processing in more detail. For this purpose, we here introduce a novel movement priming paradigm in combination with electro- and magnetoencephalography (EEG/MEG), which allows investigating effects of motor cortex pre-activation on the spatio-temporal dynamics of action-word evoked brain activation. Participants initiated experimental trials by either finger- or foot-movements before executing a two alternative forced choice task employing action-words. We found differential brain activation during the early stages of subsequent hand- and leg-related word processing, respectively, albeit in the absence of behavioral effects. Distributed source estimation based on combined EEG/MEG measurements revealed that congruency effects between effector type used for response initiation (hand or foot) and action-word category (hand- or foot-related) occurred not only in motor cortex, but also in a classical language comprehension area, posterior superior temporal cortex, already 150 msec after the visual presentation of the word stimulus. This suggests that pre-activation of hand- and leg-motor networks may differentially facilitate the ignition of semantic cell assemblies for hand- and leg-related words, respectively. Our results demonstrate the usefulness of movement priming in combination with neuroimaging to functionally characterize the link between language and sensorimotor systems.

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Movement priming of EEG/MEG brain responses for action-words characterizes the link between language and action

Mollo

Pulvermüller

Hauk

2016

Cortex

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“…Furthermore, we also observed an SSE in blindfolded-sighted and seeing individuals who only differed in the amount of visual feedback during task performance. Indeed, it has been shown that vision substantially contributes to the coordination of shared actions and the understanding of others' intentions [47]–[49]. For example, there is evidence that the observation of others' gaze direction facilitates nonverbal communication in cooperative interaction [50] and changes the control of motor acts on the behavioral level [51]–[52], as well as on the cortical level [53]–[55].…”

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Visual Experience Determines the Use of External Reference Frames in Joint Action Control

Dolk

Liepelt²,

Prinz

et al. 2013

PLoS ONE

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Vision plays a crucial role in human interaction by facilitating the coordination of one's own actions with those of others in space and time. While previous findings have demonstrated that vision determines the default use of reference frames, little is known about the role of visual experience in coding action-space during joint action. Here, we tested if and how visual experience influences the use of reference frames in joint action control. Dyads of congenitally-blind, blindfolded-sighted, and seeing individuals took part in an auditory version of the social Simon task, which required each participant to respond to one of two sounds presented to the left or right of both participants. To disentangle the contribution of external—agent-based and response-based—reference frames during joint action, participants performed the task with their respective response (right) hands uncrossed or crossed over one another. Although the location of the auditory stimulus was completely task-irrelevant, participants responded overall faster when the stimulus location spatially corresponded to the required response side than when they were spatially non-corresponding: a phenomenon known as the social Simon effect (SSE). In sighted participants, the SSE occurred irrespective of whether hands were crossed or uncrossed, suggesting the use of external, response-based reference frames. Congenitally-blind participants also showed an SSE, but only with uncrossed hands. We argue that congenitally-blind people use both agent-based and response-based reference frames resulting in conflicting spatial information when hands are crossed and, thus, canceling out the SSE. These results imply that joint action control functions on the basis of external reference frames independent of the presence or (transient/permanent) absence of vision. However, the type of external reference frames used for organizing motor control in joint action seems to be determined by visual experience.

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“…Some authors conclude from their results that people do co-represent them (e.g., Baus et al, 2014; Demiral et al, 2016; Dudarev & Hassin, 2016; Kuhlen & Abdel Rahman, 2017; Sebanz et al, 2003), while others conclude that they do not (e.g., Dolk et al, 2014; Liepelt et al, 2012; Saunders et al, 2017; Wenke et al, 2011; Yamaguchi et al, 2017b). Most alternative accounts of the mechanisms underlying seemingly social phenomena are “task-content-free.” For instance, they suggest that people use the partner as a spatial reference (Dolk et al, 2014) or that they represent who is going to respond (Wenke et al, 2011) and when the partner is going to respond (Liepelt et al, 2012). Thus, they do not speak to the possibility that an absence of action co-representation can still mean that people represent something about the content of what the partner is doing.…”

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“…In the joint action literature, there is an ongoing debate whether and how people co-represent a partner’s task (e.g., Böckler et al, 2012; Dolk et al, 2014; Gambi et al, 2015; Liepelt et al, 2012; Sebanz et al, 2003; Wenke et al, 2011). Most studies have used paradigms, such as the Joint Simon task, in which two people share one task and each partner performs half of it.…”

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How do partner reactions affect task set selection: Specific imitation or abstract tasks?

Müller

2020

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

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Task set selection is facilitated when people expect a partner to perform the same task, suggesting that the features of the partner’s performance are represented. However, it is unclear how similar the partner’s reactions must be to promote compatibility effects: does a partner have to imitate subjects’ specific actions or is it enough to perform the same task while responding to different stimuli with different actions? This present study investigated this question in a joint picture–word interference paradigm. Subjects either named pictures or read words, and a partner responded by performing the same or the competing task. In Experiment 1, the partner used the same picture–word combinations as the subject and thus compatible trials implied a complete imitation. Compatibility benefits were observed. In Experiment 2, the partner performed the same or the competing task on different stimuli, producing different actions. Compatibility effects were absent. To test whether this indicates that an overlap in abstract task features is insufficient or resulted from excessive task difficulty, Experiment 3 replicated Experiment 2 with a smaller stimulus set. Compatibility benefits were found. Taken together, the results suggest that a partner’s abstract task can be represented and affect task set selection processes even without an overlap in stimulus-response mappings.

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Specifying social cognitive processes with a social dual-task paradigm

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Movement priming of EEG/MEG brain responses for action-words characterizes the link between language and action

Movement priming of EEG/MEG brain responses for action-words characterizes the link between language and action

Visual Experience Determines the Use of External Reference Frames in Joint Action Control

How do partner reactions affect task set selection: Specific imitation or abstract tasks?

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