Peripersonal space in social context is modulated by action reward, but differently in males and females

Gigliotti, Maria Francesca; Coelho, Patrícia Soares; Coutinho, Joana; Yann, C.

doi:10.1007/s00426-019-01242-x

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“…This finding is in line with the observation that in a social context, people tend to automatically shift their attention away from others in order to subjectively increase the social distance and thus reduce the uncomfortable situation and associated physiological responses induced by the presence of a conspecific (Szpak et al, 2015). However, Coello et al (2018) showed that despite the reduction of the workspace considered by the confederates, the representation of their PPS extended after having performed a cooperative task (Gigliotti et al, 2021).…”

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The Interrelation Between Peripersonal Action Space and Interpersonal Social Space: Psychophysiological Evidence and Clinical Implications

Yann

Cartaud

2021

Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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The peripersonal space is an adaptive and flexible interface between the body and the environment that fulfills a dual-motor function: preparing the body for voluntary object-oriented actions to interact with incentive stimuli and preparing the body for defensive responses when facing potentially harmful stimuli. In this position article, we provide arguments for the sensorimotor rooting of the peripersonal space representation and highlight the variables that contribute to its flexible and adaptive characteristics. We also demonstrate that peripersonal space represents a mediation zone between the body and the environment contributing to not only the control of goal-directed actions but also the organization of social life. The whole of the data presented and discussed led us to the proposal of a new theoretical framework linking the peripersonal action space and the interpersonal social space and we highlight how this theoretical framework can account for social behaviors in populations with socio-emotional deficits.

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The Interrelation Between Peripersonal Action Space and Interpersonal Social Space: Psychophysiological Evidence and Clinical Implications

Yann

Cartaud

2021

Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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“…This hypothesis is consistent with previous research which showed that individuals are guided by the expected value of the different outcomes, by the associated degrees of uncertainty ( Tobler et al, 2007 ), and by the prediction of reward when initiating an approach behavior towards that reward ( Schultz, 2016 ). Moreover, with Gigliotti et al ( 2019 ), who revealed that an expected reward in the environment modifies peripersonal space representation. Furthermore, the hypothesis is in agreement with the idea of Kringelbach and Berridge ( 2017 ) who highlighted that incentive salience increases the availability of a reward, which helps to determine its motivational value and serves as a potent trigger of ‘wanting’.…”

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“…Such changes were also seen in increased receptive fields of neurons in intraparietal cortex ( Iriki et al, 2001 ). Also, reward expectations in relation to motor actions influenced peripersonal space representation ( Gigliotti et al, 2019 ) in humans, indicating that we simulate the actions we plan to perform on objects.…”

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Reaching Out for Food: How Food Incentives Modulate Peripersonal Space Perception

Bertonatti

Weymar

Sommer

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Journal of Cognition

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Two experiments were conducted to determine, first, whether food items influence participants' estimations of the size of their subjective peripersonal space. It was of particular interest whether this representation is influenced by satiated/hungry states and is differentially affected by valence and calorie content of depicted stimuli. Second, event-related brain potentials (ERPs) were used, in order to obtain information about the time course of the observed effects and how they depend on the spatial location of the food pictures. For that purpose, participants had to decide whether food items shown at various distances along a horizontal plane in front of them, were reachable or not. In Experiment 1, when participants were hungry, they perceived an increase of their peripersonal space modulated by high-calorie items which were experienced as being more reachable than low-calorie items. In Experiment 2, the reachability findings were replicated and early and late components of ERPs showed an attentional enhancement in far space for food items when participants were hungry. These findings suggest that participants' subjective peripersonal space increased while being hungry, especially for high-calorie contents. Attention also seems to be oriented more strongly to far space items due to their expected incentive-related salience, expanding the subjective representation of peripersonal space.

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“…One can also consider another line of research on the representation of peripersonal space (the space around the body), which is tightly linked to the representation of the body's spatial properties [66]. Research in this area indicates that the representation of peripersonal space varies according to personality traits, affective states and social context [68][69][70][71][72].…”

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Self-partner inclusion predicts performance of romantically involved individuals in a body-scaled action-anticipation task

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Previous research has shown that romantic relationships can lead to the cognitive inclusion of a romantic partner into one’s own self-representation, resulting in blurred boundaries between self and intimate other. Recent work suggests that this self-other integration process encompasses the two dimensions of the self–the conceptual and the bodily self. In line with this, it has been proposed that romantic love is associated with cognitive states that blur or reduce the saliency of self-boundaries in the bodily domain. The present study tested this hypothesis by investigating the influence of the self-other integration process in romantic love on passability judgments of door-like apertures, an action-anticipation task that rests on the representation of bodily boundaries. Romantically involved and single participants estimated whether they could pass through apertures of different widths. Moreover, inclusion of romantic partner in the self was assessed using the Inclusion of Other in the Self (IOS) scale. The pattern of correlation and the ratio between participants’ shoulder width and aperture judgments did not differ between romantically involved participants and singles. However, our results revealed that in romantically involved participants, the relationship between individuals’ shoulder width and aperture judgements was moderated by IOS scores. A greater inclusion of romantic partner in the self was associated with a weaker prediction of aperture judgment by participants’ shoulder width. A similar moderating effect of the intensity of romantic feelings (as measured by the passionate love scale) on shoulder width-aperture judgment relationship was found. IOS scores, but not romantic feelings, also moderated aperture judgments made for another individual (third person perspective). Together, these findings are consistent with the view that inclusion of romantic partner in the self triggers cognitive states affecting self-boundaries in the bodily domain.

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Peripersonal space in social context is modulated by action reward, but differently in males and females

Cited by 22 publications

References 69 publications

The Interrelation Between Peripersonal Action Space and Interpersonal Social Space: Psychophysiological Evidence and Clinical Implications

The Interrelation Between Peripersonal Action Space and Interpersonal Social Space: Psychophysiological Evidence and Clinical Implications

Reaching Out for Food: How Food Incentives Modulate Peripersonal Space Perception

Self-partner inclusion predicts performance of romantically involved individuals in a body-scaled action-anticipation task

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