Interference of action perception on action production increases across the adult life span

Wermelinger, Stephanie; Gampe, Anja; Behr, Jannis; Daum, Moritz M.

doi:10.1007/s00221-017-5157-3

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“…, 2017 ; Catmur and Heyes, 2011 ). However, when treating age as a continuous variable, age was a significant linear predictor of the PCE (as in Wermelinger et al. , (2018 ), but see SM2.1 in the Supplementary material ).…”

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“…On the other hand, studies focusing on age-related differences in interference control in the context of automatic imitation in adolescence and across the adult lifespan are scarce (for review, see Rauchbauer and Grosbras, 2020 ). To the best of our knowledge, only a single behavioral study explored interference control in the context of automatic imitation using the finger-lifting task across the adult lifespan and found that it decreases with age ( Wermelinger et al. , 2018 ).…”

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Age-related differences in interference control in the context of a finger-lifting task: an fMRI study

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Pronizius

Lenger

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Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

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Humans tend to automatically imitate others and their actions whilst also being able to control such imitative tendencies. Interference control, necessary to suppress own imitative tendencies, develops rapidly in childhood and adolescence, plateaus in adulthood, and slowly declines with advancing age. It remains to be shown though, which neural processes underpin these differences across the lifespan. In a cross-sectional fMRI study with three age groups (adolescents 14-17 years, young adults 21-31, older adults 56-76, N=91 healthy female participants), we investigated the behavioral and neural correlates of interference control in the context of automatic imitation using the finger-lifting task. Adolescents showed the most efficient interference control, while no significant differences emerged between young and older adults, despite older adults showing longer reaction times. On the neural level, all age groups showed engagement of rTPJ, rSMG, and bilateral Insula, aligning well with studies previously using this task. However, our analyses did not reveal any age-related differences in brain activation, neither in these nor in other areas. This suggest that adolescents might have a more efficient use of the engaged brain networks, and on the other hand, older adults’ capacity for interference control and the associated brain functions might be largely preserved.

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Age-related differences in interference control in the context of a finger-lifting task: an fMRI study

Riva

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Lenger

et al. 2023

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

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“…Developmental work on inhibition of imitation would benefit our understanding of the constructs this task measures and how inhibition of imitation develops through life. Indeed, inhibiting imitation of others' actions may become increasingly difficult across the lifespan in older adults (Wermelinger, Gampe, Behr, & Daum, 2018).…”

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Three-year-olds’ Perspective-taking in Social Interactions: Relations with Socio-cognitive Skills

Brezack

Meyer

Woodward

2021

Journal of Cognition and Development

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Understanding others' perspectives and integrating this knowledge in social interactions is challenging for young children; even adults struggle with this skill. While young children show the capacity to understand what others can and cannot see under supportive laboratory conditions, more research is necessary to understand how children implement their perspective-taking (PT) skill during interactions and which socio-cognitive skills support their ability to do so. This preregistered study examined children's Level 1 visual PT in a real-time social interaction and tested whether social-cognitive skills (focusing on inhibition of imitation) predicted PT. Thirty-six 3-year-old children (mean age: 37.3 months) participated in a PT task and responded implicitly (via eye gaze) and explicitly (via toy choice) to situations where their communicative partner could see some objects but not others. Three-year-olds demonstrated sensitivity to another's perspective via implicit responses, but did not consistently take their partner's perspective into account in their actions when considering objects their partner could not see. Contrary to adult findings, children who struggled to inhibit imitating (those more affected by another's actions) demonstrated better PT, again when considering objects outside their partner's sight. Thus, 3-year-olds' sensitivity to others' perspectives was robust, while acting on PT knowledge may still be developing; further, children more affected by another's actions demonstrated improved PT skills.

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Interference of action perception on action production increases across the adult life span

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Age-related differences in interference control in the context of a finger-lifting task: an fMRI study

Age-related differences in interference control in the context of a finger-lifting task: an fMRI study

Three-year-olds’ Perspective-taking in Social Interactions: Relations with Socio-cognitive Skills

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