Shared representations in body perception
Shared representations in body perception
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DOI：
10.1016/j.actpsy.2005.08.002
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发表时间：
2006-03-01
影响因子：
1.8
通讯作者：
Haggard, P
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作者：
Thomas, R;Press, C;Haggard, P
理解发生在他人身上的事件的能力是人类思维的一个特征。在这里，我们研究自己身体的心理表征与他人身体之间的联系是否可以构成人类社会表征的基础。我们通过一系列行为暗示实验研究了人际身体表征（IBR）。在模型身体的相应解剖位置或非相应位置呈现视觉事件后，受试者对自己身体上的触觉事件做出反应。我们发现，当视觉提示与触觉刺激一致时，反应会更快。当在非身体控制刺激上呈现相同的视觉事件时，这种效应不存在，这表明纯感觉事件的人际记录存在身体特定的机制。类似的人际系统之前已经被证明可以用于行为和情感的编码，但我们相信我们的结果为纯粹感觉层面上的人际身体表征提供了第一个行为证据。我们证明，当看到另一个宠物儿子时，身体特有的感觉处理机制会自动激活。人际身体表征可能是同理心和心理理论的重要先驱。在我们的社交世界中，我们通过将他人的感知与用于感知我们自己身体的表征进行登记来理解他人的感知，这种机制涉及人际躯体图。 (c) 2005 Elsevier B.V. 保留所有权利。
The ability to understand events that happen to other people is a characteristic feature of the human mind. Here, we investigate whether the links between mental representation of one's own body and the bodies of other people could form the basis of human social representations. We studied interpersonal body representation (IBR) in a series of behavioural cueing experiments. Subjects responded to tactile events oil their own body after a visual event was presented in either the corresponding anatomical location oil a model's body, or in a non-corresponding location. We found that reactions were faster when the visual cue was in register with the tactile stimulation. This effect was absent when identical visual events were presented on a non-body control stimulus, suggesting a body specific mechanism for interpersonal registration of purely sensory events. similar interpersonal systems have been demonstrated previously for the coding of action and emotion, but we believe that our results provide the first behavioural evidence for interpersonal body representation at the purely sensory level. We show that a sensory processing mechanism specific for bodies is automatically activated when viewing another pet-son. Interpersonal body representation may be an important precursor to empathy and theory of mind. In our social world, we understand the percepts of others by registering them against the representations used to perceive our own body, and this mechanism involves an interpersonal somatotopic map. (c) 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.