Cross-modal self-recognition: The role of visual, auditory, and olfactory primes

Platek, Steven M.; Thomson, Jaime W.; Gallup, Gordon G.

doi:10.1016/j.concog.2003.10.001

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“…in empathy, imitation, communication), gives an idea of how much the functions of the nervous system are adapted to the interactive nature of human sociality. The study of single-and multi-modal cues to social perception has revealed that there are strong reciprocal influences between auditory, visual and chemical inputs (Kovács et al 2004;Platek et al 2004;Campanella & Belin 2007), and in this review we have attempted to summarize the current knowledge on their neural bases, with a focus on hemispheric asymmetries.…”

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“…These cues are principally conveyed by the visual, auditory and olfactory modalities. Moreover, there is ample evidence that visual, auditory and olfactory cues interact cross modally, forming integrated person perceptions (Kovács et al 2004;Platek et al 2004;Campanella & Belin 2007). Touch could be listed as another source of social information, but despite its non-irrelevant involvement in social perception and interaction, it has received comparatively less attention (but see Bufalari et al (2007) and Dunbar (in press) for recent theoretical and empirical work).…”

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Asymmetries of the human social brain in the visual, auditory and chemical modalities

Brancucci

Lucci

Mazzatenta

et al. 2008

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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Structural and functional asymmetries are present in many regions of the human brain responsible for motor control, sensory and cognitive functions and communication. Here, we focus on hemispheric asymmetries underlying the domain of social perception, broadly conceived as the analysis of information about other individuals based on acoustic, visual and chemical signals. By means of these cues the brain establishes the border between 'self ' and 'other', and interprets the surrounding social world in terms of the physical and behavioural characteristics of conspecifics essential for impression formation and for creating bonds and relationships. We show that, considered from the standpoint of single-and multi-modal sensory analysis, the neural substrates of the perception of voices, faces, gestures, smells and pheromones, as evidenced by modern neuroimaging techniques, are characterized by a general pattern of right-hemispheric functional asymmetry that might benefit from other aspects of hemispheric lateralization rather than constituting a true specialization for social information.

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Asymmetries of the human social brain in the visual, auditory and chemical modalities

Brancucci

Lucci

Mazzatenta

et al. 2008

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

109

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“…Note that although most research has focused on self-face recognition, other forms of self-recognition have been investigated as well. People are competent at identifying the identity of their body, including limbs (e.g., hands) and shadows produced by the body (Cameron & Gallup, 1988), their odour (olfactory selfrecognition-e.g., perspiration; Platek, Thompson & Gallup, 2004), and their name (visual name-recognition; Kaplan, Aziz-Zadeh, Uddin & Iacoboni, 2008). These different sensory modalities interact to generate cross-modal self-recognition-a more rapid self-face recognition following exposure to visual, auditory, or olfactory self-primes .…”

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Self-recognition, theory-of-mind, and self-awareness: What side are you on?

Morin

2011

Laterality: Asymmetries of Body, Brain and Cognition

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A fashionable view in comparative psychology states that primates possess self-awareness because they exhibit mirror self-recognition (MSR), which in turn makes it possible to infer mental states in others ("Theory-of-Mind"; ToM). In cognitive neuroscience, an increasingly popular position holds that the right hemisphere represents the center of self-awareness because MSR and ToM tasks presumably increase activity in that hemisphere. In this chapter I critically assess these two claims as follows. MSR should not be equated with full-blown selfawareness; for instance, evidence suggests that MSR only requires kinesthetic self-knowledge and does not involve access to one's mental events. ToM and self-awareness are fairly independent and should also not be taken as equivalent notions; to illustrate, ToM implies a focus of attention on others, not on the self, whereas self-awareness exclusively entails self-focus. MSR and ToM tasks engage medial and left brain areas-not sites solely located in the right hemisphere, as recent meta-analyses of brain-imaging studies clearly show. Other selfawareness tasks besides MSR and ToM tasks (e.g., self-description, autobiography) mostly recruit medial and left brain areas. And inner speech, produced by the left hemisphere and which primates lack, plays a significant role in self-referential activity; indeed, accidental loss of inner speech following brain injury leads to self-awareness deficits. The conclusions I will reach based on this analysis is that (1) primates that display MSR most probably do not possess introspective self-awareness, and (2) self-related processes most likely engage a distributed network of brain regions situated in both hemispheres.

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“…Cross-modal self recognition: The role of visual, auditory, and olfactory primes. Consciousness and Cognition, in press Recently, Platek, Thomson and Gallup (2004) reported a series of three experiments that were aimed at determining how information about the self from different modalities and domains affects self-face recognition. Their results indicated that being exposed to one's own body odour, and seeing or hearing one's own name all facilitated the recognition of one's own face.…”

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Cross-modal facilitation is not specific to self-face recognition

Brédart

2004

Consciousness and Cognition

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. Cross-modal self recognition: The role of visual, auditory, and olfactory primes. Consciousness and Cognition, in press Recently, Platek, Thomson and Gallup (2004) reported a series of three experiments that were aimed at determining how information about the self from different modalities and domains affects self-face recognition. Their results indicated that being exposed to one's own body odour, and seeing or hearing one's own name all facilitated the recognition of one's own face. No cross-modal facilitation was found for other familiar persons and for unfamiliar individuals. These authors claimed that this pattern of results suggests that the perceptions of self in the olfactory, auditory, and visual domains are not mutually exclusive but rather interact and provide for integrative processing of self-information. They concluded that "these priming effects on processing information about the self strongly suggest that rather than being modality specific/dependent, the sense of self is represented by a larger multi-modal phenomenon".In their paper, Platek et al. present cross-modal facilitation of face recognition as if this phenomenon was specific to self-face recognition. This interpretation is consistent with their own results that showed no priming of other (familiar or unfamiliar) individuals' faces from their respective odour, spoken name or written name. However, cross-modal facilitation of familiar face recognition, in general, was predicted by current Interactive Activation and Competition (IAC) models of face recognition (Brédart,

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Cross-modal self-recognition: The role of visual, auditory, and olfactory primes

Cited by 73 publications

References 28 publications

Asymmetries of the human social brain in the visual, auditory and chemical modalities

Asymmetries of the human social brain in the visual, auditory and chemical modalities

Self-recognition, theory-of-mind, and self-awareness: What side are you on?

Cross-modal facilitation is not specific to self-face recognition

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