Distinct sensitivities of the lateral prefrontal cortex and extrastriate body area to contingency between executed and observed actions

• Main Authors: Sasaki, Akihiro T., Okamoto, Yuko, Kochiyama, Takanori, Kitada, Ryo, Sadato, Norihiro
• Other Authors: School of Social Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Social sciences::Psychology; Social Contingency; Body Ownership
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/144237; https://doi.org/10.21979/N9/MBUUYK
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Detecting relationships between our own actions and the subsequent actions of others is critical for our social behavior. Self-actions differ from those of others in terms of action kinematics, body identity, and feedback timing. Thus, the detection of social contingency between self-actions and tho...