Imitation or Polarity Correspondence? Behavioural and
Neurophysiological Evidence for the Confounding Influence of
Orthogonal Spatial Compatibility on Measures of Automatic
Imitation

J 2021

Imitation or Polarity Correspondence? Behavioural and Neurophysiological Evidence for the Confounding Influence of Orthogonal Spatial Compatibility on Measures of Automatic Imitation

CZEKÓOVÁ, Kristína, Daniel Joel SHAW, Martin LAMOŠ, Beáta HAVLICE ŠPILÁKOVÁ, Miguel SALAZAR ADAMS et. al.

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Original name

Imitation or Polarity Correspondence? Behavioural and Neurophysiological Evidence for the Confounding Influence of Orthogonal Spatial Compatibility on Measures of Automatic Imitation

Authors

CZEKÓOVÁ, Kristína (703 Slovakia, belonging to the institution), Daniel Joel SHAW (826 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, guarantor, belonging to the institution), Martin LAMOŠ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Beáta HAVLICE ŠPILÁKOVÁ (703 Slovakia, belonging to the institution), Miguel SALAZAR ADAMS (484 Mexico, belonging to the institution) and Milan BRÁZDIL (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution)

Edition

COGNITIVE AFFECTIVE & BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE, NEW YORK, SPRINGER, 2021, 1530-7026

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku

Field of Study

30103 Neurosciences

Country of publisher

United States of America

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

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Impact factor

Impact factor: 3.526

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14740/21:00118919

Organization unit

Central European Institute of Technology

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13415-020-00860-y

UT WoS

000607053700001

Keywords in English

Automatic imitation; Orthogonal spatial compatibility; Semantic control; Polarity correspondence

Abstract

V originále

During social interactions, humans tend to imitate one another involuntarily. To investigate the neurocognitive mechanisms driving this tendency, researchers often employ stimulus-response compatibility (SRC) tasks to assess the influence that action observation has on action execution. This is referred to as automatic imitation (AI). The stimuli used frequently in SRC procedures to elicit AI often confound action-related with other nonsocial influences on behaviour; however, in response to the rotated hand-action stimuli employed increasingly, AI partly reflects unspecific up-right/down-left biases in stimulus-response mapping. Despite an emerging awareness of this confounding orthogonal spatial-compatibility effect, psychological and neuroscientific research into social behaviour continues to employ these stimuli to investigate AI. To increase recognition of this methodological issue, the present study measured the systematic influence of orthogonal spatial effects on behavioural and neurophysiological measures of AI acquired with rotated hand-action stimuli in SRC tasks. In Experiment 1, behavioural data from a large sample revealed that complex orthogonal spatial effects exert an influence on AI over and above any topographical similarity between observed and executed actions. Experiment 2 reproduced this finding in a more systematic, within-subject design, and high-density electroencephalography revealed that electrocortical expressions of AI elicited also are modulated by orthogonal spatial compatibility. Finally, source localisations identified a collection of cortical areas sensitive to this spatial confound, including nodes of the multiple-demand and semantic-control networks. These results indicate that AI measured on SRC procedures with the rotated hand stimuli used commonly might reflect neurocognitive mechanisms associated with spatial associations rather than imitative tendencies.

Links

GA15-16738S, research and development project

Name: Individuální rozdíly v diferenciaci mezi reprezentací sebe a druhých lidí

Investor: Czech Science Foundation

LQ1601, research and development project

Name: CEITEC 2020 (Acronym: CEITEC2020)

Investor: Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the CR

90129, large research infrastructures

Name: Czech-BioImaging II

Citovat

CZEKÓOVÁ, Kristína, Daniel Joel SHAW, Martin LAMOŠ, Beáta HAVLICE ŠPILÁKOVÁ, Miguel SALAZAR ADAMS and Milan BRÁZDIL. Imitation or Polarity Correspondence? Behavioural and Neurophysiological Evidence for the Confounding Influence of Orthogonal Spatial Compatibility on Measures of Automatic Imitation. COGNITIVE AFFECTIVE & BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE. NEW YORK: SPRINGER, 2021, vol. 21, No 1, p. 212-230. ISSN 1530-7026. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13415-020-00860-y.

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CZEKÓOVÁ, Kristína, Daniel Joel SHAW, Martin LAMOŠ, Beáta HAVLICE ŠPILÁKOVÁ, Miguel SALAZAR ADAMS and Milan BRÁZDIL. Imitation or Polarity Correspondence? Behavioural and Neurophysiological Evidence for the Confounding Influence of Orthogonal Spatial Compatibility on Measures of Automatic Imitation. \textit{COGNITIVE AFFECTIVE \&{}amp; BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE}. NEW YORK: SPRINGER, 2021, vol.~21, No~1, p.~212-230. ISSN~1530-7026. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13415-020-00860-y.

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