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Self and other in the human motor system.

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Schütz-Bosbach, Simone, Mancini, Benedetta, Aglioti, Salvatore M., Haggard, Patrick·2006·Current Biology
DOI 10.1016/j.cub.2006.07.048
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Observation of another's action can selectively facilitate the brain's motor circuits for making the same action . A "mirror-matching mechanism" might map observed actions onto the observer's own motor representations . Crucially, this view suggests that the brain represents others' actions like one's own. However, this hypothesis has been difficult to test because the experience of one's own body differs from that of others' bodies with respect to viewpoint, morphological features, familiarity, and the hallmark feature of kinaesthetic experience. We used an established method for manipulating the sense of body ownership ("rubber-hand illusion") to compare effects of observing actions that either were or were not illusorily attributed to the subject's own body. We show that observing another's actions facilitated the motor system, whereas observing identical actions, which were illusorily attributed to the subject's own body, showed the opposite pattern. Thus, motor facilitation strongly depends on the agent to whom the observed action is attributed. This result contradicts previous concepts of equivalence between one's own actions and actions of others and suggests that social differentiation, not equivalence, is characteristic of the human action system.

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Authors
Schütz-Bosbach, S., Mancini, B., Aglioti, S. M., & Haggard, P.
Affiliations
  • Fondazione Santa Lucia (IT)
  • University College London (GB)
ORCID
Venue
Current Biology
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2006-09
Volume
16
Issue
18
Pages
1830-1834
ISSN
0960-9822 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1016/j.cub.2006.07.048
OpenAlex
W2091806562
Cited by
141
References
33
Citations by year
2026: 1 · 2025: 1 · 2024: 1 · 2023: 1 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 8 · 2020: 2 · 2019: 20 · 2018: 11 · 2017: 10 · 2016: 6 · 2015: 4 · 2014: 12 · 2013: 9 · 2012: 12
FWCI
9.90
Type
journal article
Language
en
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Locations
  • Current Biology (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (submittedVersion)
  • UCL Discovery (University College London) (submittedVersion)
  • Max Planck Digital Library (submittedVersion)
  • IRIS Research product catalog (Sapienza University of Rome) (submittedVersion)
  • MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society) (submittedVersion)
Funders
  • Royal Society
  • Economic and Social Research Council
  • Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
  • Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Action Observation and Synchronization
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Motor Control and Adaptation
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Free Will and Agency
Keywords
mirror system, action observation, motor facilitation, rubber hand illusion, body ownership, self-other distinction, social cognition, motor representations, kinesthesia
MeSH terms
Cognition, Hand, Humans, Illusions, Imitative Behavior, Movement, Physical Stimulation, Psychomotor Performance, Visual Perception, Evoked Potentials, Motor, Recognition, Psychology, Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation

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