Bach, Patric, Fenton-Adams, Wendy and Tipper, Steven Paul orcid.org/0000-0002-7066-1117 (2014) Can't touch this:the first-person perspective provides privileged access to predictions of sensory action outcomes. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. pp. 457-464. ISSN 1939-1277
Abstract
Previous studies have shown that viewing others in pain activates cortical somatosensory processing areas and facilitates the detection of tactile targets. It has been suggested that such shared representations have evolved to enable us to better understand the actions and intentions of others. If this is the case, the effects of observing others in pain should be obtained from a range of viewing perspectives. Therefore, the current study examined the behavioral effects of observed grasps of painful and nonpainful objects from both a first- and third-person perspective. In the first-person perspective, a participant was faster to detect a tactile target delivered to their own hand when viewing painful grasping actions, compared with all nonpainful actions. However, this effect was not revealed in the third-person perspective. The combination of action and object information to predict the painful consequences of another person’s actions when viewed from the first-person perspective, but not the third-person perspective, argues against a mechanism ostensibly evolved to understand the actions of others.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2014 American Psychological Association. This is an author produced version of a paper published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. This article may not exactly replicate the final version published in the APA journal. It is not the copy of record. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | vieiwng perspective, first person,third person,action observation,action prediction,mirror neurone |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Sciences (York) > Psychology (York) |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 21 Jul 2014 11:51 |
Last Modified: | 31 Mar 2025 23:05 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1037/a0035348 |
Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1037/a0035348 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:79321 |