Journal
BIOLOGY LETTERS
Volume 6, Issue 6, Pages 758-761Publisher
ROYAL SOC
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2010.0478
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action simulation; motor system; social interaction; EEG; favouritism
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The ability to anticipate others' actions is crucial for social interaction. It has been shown that this ability relies on motor areas of the human brain that are not only active during action execution and action observation, but also during anticipation of another person's action. Recording electroencephalograms during a triadic social interaction, we assessed whether activation of motor areas pertaining to the human mirror-neuron system prior to action observation depends on the social relationship between the actor and the observer. Anticipatory motor activation was stronger when participants expected an interaction partner to perform a particular action than when they anticipated that the same action would be performed by a third person they did not interact with. These results demonstrate that social interaction modulates action simulation.
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