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Imagined own-body transformations during passive self-motion

van Elk, Michiel  
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Blanke, Olaf  
2014
Psychological research

Spatial perspective taking is a crucial social skill that underlies many of our everyday interactions. Previous studies have suggested that spatial perspective taking is an embodied process that involves the integration of both motor and proprioceptive information. Given the importance of vestibular signals for own-body perception, mental own-body imagery, and bodily self-consciousness, in the present study we hypothesized that vestibular stimulation due to passive own-body displacements should also modulate spatial perspective taking. Participants performed an own-body transformation task while being passively rotated in a clockwise or counter-clockwise direction on a human motion platform. A congruency effect was observed, reflected in faster reaction times if the implied mental body rotation direction matched the actual rotation direction of the chair. These findings indicate that vestibular stimulation modulates and facilitates mental perspective taking, thereby highlighting the importance of integrating multisensory bodily information for spatial perspective taking.

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research article
DOI
10.1007/s00426-013-0486-8
Web of Science ID

WOS:000329244200003

PubMed ID

23412705

Author(s)
van Elk, Michiel  
Blanke, Olaf  
Date Issued

2014

Published in
Psychological research
Volume

78

Issue

1

Start page

18

End page

27

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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EPFL

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LNCO  
Available on Infoscience
February 18, 2013
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/88905
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