Embodied Simulation of Others Being Touched in 1-Year-Old Infants

Müller, Barbara; Meinhardt, Jörg; Paulus, Markus

doi:10.1080/87565641.2017.1303702

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“…Within the first months of life, the somatotopic organization of the basic infant body map appears consistent with that of older children and adults (Dall'Orso et al, 2018;Meltzoff et al, , 2019Saby et al, 2015;Shen et al, 2018Shen et al, , 2020. Work with older infants has revealed an adult-like somatotopic pattern of mu rhythm responses, observed separately during the action observation and action execution (Marshall et al, 2013;Müller et al, 2017;Saby et al, 2013). In six-month-old infants, a somatotopic pattern of mu responses was evident following tactile stimulation of the infant's hand or foot, and concurrent observation of an adult hand or foot did not modulate these effects (Drew et al, 2018).…”

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Exploring developmental changes in infant anticipation and perceptual processing: EEG responses to tactile stimulation

Shen

Weiss

Meltzoff

et al. 2021

Infancy

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There is an increasing interest in alpha-range rhythms in the electroencephalogram (EEG) in relation to perceptual and attentional processes. The infant mu rhythm has been extensively studied in the context of linkages between action observation and action production in infancy, but less is known about the mu rhythm in relation to cross-modal processes involving somatosensation. We investigated differences in mu responses to cued vibrotactile stimulation of the hand in two age groups of infants: From 6 to 7 months and 13 to 14 months. We were also interested in anticipatory neural responses in the alpha frequency range prior to tactile stimulation. Tactile stimulation of infants' left or right hand was preceded by an audiovisual cue signaling which hand would be stimulated. In response to the tactile stimulus, infants demonstrated significant mu desynchronization over the central areas contralateral to the hand stimulated, with higher mu peak frequency and greater contralateral mu desynchronization for older infants. Prior to the tactile stimulus, both age groups showed significant bilateral alpha desynchronization over frontocentral sites, which may be indicative of generalized anticipation of an upcoming stimulus.

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Exploring developmental changes in infant anticipation and perceptual processing: EEG responses to tactile stimulation

Shen

Weiss

Meltzoff

et al. 2021

Infancy

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“…So it is necessary to develop virtual embodied experience measurement ahead of existing measurement solutions, which mainly focus on bodily experience (e.g., Eubanks et al, 2021; Peck & Gonzalez‐Franco, 2021) while rarely touching other experiential orientations. Considering that there are many subliminal or under‐conscious components in such an experience, conventional paper‐and‐pencil scales should be extended to include more measuring operations, such as ZMET (Jung et al, 2019), video analysis (Reinhard et al, 2020), eye‐tracking (Luis del Campo et al, 2018), EEG (Müller et al, 2017), fMRI (Seinfeld et al, 2021), and SCRs (Rosa et al, 2019).…”

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A systematic literature review of virtual embodied experience

Chen,

Ning,

Chen

2023

Psychology and Marketing

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Virtual scenarios have brought intriguing enhancements to the in‐reality experiences of individuals, and a paradigm of embodiment, rather than disembodiment, has evolved. Research on virtual embodied experience has connected the trends of virtualization and embodiment of experience but remains scattered and inconclusive. This systematic review of 125 peer‐reviewed journal papers in the Scopus database uncovers extant work on the contextualization, conceptualization, and causal links of virtual embodied experience. It finds that extant literature neglects certain cutting‐edge scenarios. Research still needs to identify more explicit dimensional structures of virtual embodied experience and more antecedents and consequences along the causal chain. Research has grounded itself in theoretical constellations across cognitive and behavioral science, sociology, and computer science. Nevertheless, flaws remain, not least the use of disembodiment‐oriented theories to explain embodied experience and insufficient emphasis on the subjectivity of technology. As the lack of suitable research frameworks has presented obstacles to quantitative research, this study proposes a framework highlighting virtual embodied experience bridging virtual scenario elements (technological and environmental factors) and multiple consequences (perception, responses, and performances). This study sets out a future research agenda, including promising research directions such as exploring virtual embodied experiences in multiple virtual scenarios, clarifying its dimensional structures, and underlining the complexity of how it mediates virtual scenario elements and commercial consequences and how it leads to possible negative consequences.

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“…The current findings add a developmental perspective from infancy to work on mu rhythm responses elicited to tactile stimulation, and are also consistent with previously reported somatotopic mu rhythm patterns in older infants (12- and 14-month-olds). In these prior studies, the infant mu rhythm showed a somatotopic response during observation of another’s hand being touched (Müller et al, 2017), or another person reaching toward and touching a toy with their hand or foot (Saby et al, 2013).…”

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“…The infant mu rhythm response displayed a somatotopic pattern during the observation of the hand and foot actions, with greater mu desynchronization occurring over sensorimotor areas corresponding to the observed body part (i.e., a lateralized event-related desynchronization (ERD) response for hands and a medial response for feet). In a converging study using older infants, 12-month-old infants viewed videos of a human hand being touched or not touched (i.e., no contact was made) by an object (Müller et al, 2017). The extent of desynchronization of the infant mu rhythm over central-parietal sites was significantly greater when the human hand was touched.…”

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Interpersonal Influences on Body Representations in the Infant Brain

2018

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Within cognitive neuroscience, there is burgeoning interest in how the body is represented in the adult brain. However, there are large gaps in the understanding of neural body representations from a developmental perspective. Of particular interest are the interconnections between somatosensation and vision, specifically infants’ abilities to register correspondences between their own bodies and the bodies of others. Such registration may play an important role in social learning and in engendering feelings of connectedness with others. In the current study, we further explored the interpersonal aspects of neural body representations by examining whether responses to tactile stimulation in 7-month-old infants are influenced by viewing another’s body. During EEG recording, infants (N= 60) observed a live presentation of an experimenter’s hand or foot being touched. During the presentation of touch to the adult’s hand or foot, the infant received a brief tactile touch to their right hand or right foot. This resulted in four conditions: (i) receive hand stimulation/observe hand stimulation, (ii) receive hand stimulation/observe foot stimulation, (iii) receive foot stimulation/observe hand stimulation, and (iv) receive foot stimulation/observe foot stimulation. Analyses compared responses overlying hand and foot regions when the observed limb matched the stimulated limb (congruent) and did not match (incongruent). In line with prior work, tactile stimulation elicited a somatotopic pattern of results in the somatosensory evoked potential (SEP) and the sensorimotor mu rhythm (6–9 Hz). Cross-modal influences were observed in the beta rhythm (11–13 Hz) response and in the late potential of the SEP response (400–600 ms). Beta desynchronization was greater for congruent compared to incongruent conditions. Additionally, tactile stimulation to the foot elicited larger mean amplitudes for congruent compared to incongruent conditions. The opposite was true for stimulation to the hand. This set of novel findings suggests the importance of considering cross-modal effects in the study of neural body representations in the infant brain. Continued work in this new area of infant neuroscience research can inform how interpersonal aspects of body representations may serve to undergird early social learning.

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Embodied Simulation of Others Being Touched in 1-Year-Old Infants

Cited by 8 publications

References 57 publications

Exploring developmental changes in infant anticipation and perceptual processing: EEG responses to tactile stimulation

Exploring developmental changes in infant anticipation and perceptual processing: EEG responses to tactile stimulation

A systematic literature review of virtual embodied experience

Interpersonal Influences on Body Representations in the Infant Brain

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