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Other-self confusions in action memory: The role of motor processes
- Source :
- Cognition. 149:67-76
- Publication Year :
- 2016
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2016.
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Abstract
- People can come to falsely remember performing actions that they have not actually performed. Common accounts of such false action memories have invoked source confusion from the overlap of sensory features but largely ignored the role of motor processes. We addressed this lacuna with a paradigm in which participants first perform (vs. do not perform) actions and then observe another person performing some of the non-performed actions. In this paradigm, observation of videos showing another's actions can later induce false self-attributions of these actions, the observation-inflation effect. Contrary to a sensory-feature account but consistent with a motor-simulation account, we found the effect even with perceptually impoverished action videos in which the majority of sensory features is absent, but motion cues are preserved (Experiment 1). We then created conditions during action observation that should (vs. should not) impede motor simulation. As predicted we found that the effect of observation was reduced when participants executed movements that were incongruent (vs. congruent) with the observed actions (Experiment 2). We discuss the processes that can produce associations of self with observed others' actions and later affect observers' action memory.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
Linguistics and Language
Cognitive Neuroscience
Motion Perception
Self-concept
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Sensory system
False memory
Affect (psychology)
050105 experimental psychology
Language and Linguistics
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Developmental and Educational Psychology
Humans
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
Motion perception
05 social sciences
Self Concept
Motion cues
Action (philosophy)
Motor processes
Mental Recall
Female
Cues
Psychology
Social psychology
Psychomotor Performance
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Cognitive psychology
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 00100277
- Volume :
- 149
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Cognition
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....a054df0e4f453a8599573f42bbe91c81