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Giving, but not taking, actions are spontaneously represented as social interactions: Evidence from modulation of lower alpha oscillations.

Abstract：

:Unlike taking, which can be redescribed in non-social and object-directed terms, acts of giving are invariably expressed across languages in a three-argument structure relating agent, patient, and object. Developmental evidence suggests this difference in the syntactic entailment of the patient role to be rooted in a prelinguistic understanding of giving as a patient-directed, hence obligatorily social, action. We hypothesized that minimal cues of possession transfer, known to induce this interpretation in preverbal infants, should similarly encourage adults to perceive the patient of giving, but not taking, actions as integral participant of the observed event, even without cues of overt involvement in the transfer. To test this hypothesis, we measured a known electrophysiological correlate of action understanding (the suppression of alpha-band oscillations) during the observation of giving and taking events, under the assumption that the functional grouping of agent and patient should have induced greater suppression that the representation of individual object-directed actions. As predicted, the observation of giving produced stronger lower alpha suppression than superficially similar acts of object disposal, whereas no difference emerged between taking from an animate patient or an inanimate target. These results suggest that the participants spontaneously represented giving, but not kinematically identical taking actions, as social interactions, and crucially restricted this interpretation to transfer events featuring animate patients. This evidence gives empirical traction to the idea that such asymmetry, rather than being an interpretive propensity circumscribed to the first year of life, is attributable to an ontogenetically stable system dedicated to the efficient identification of interactions based on active transfer.

journal_name

Neuropsychologia

journal_title

Neuropsychologia

authors

Yin J,Tatone D,Csibra G

doi

10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2020.107363

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2020-03-02 00:00:00

pages

107363

eissn

0028-3932

issn

1873-3514

pii

S0028-3932(20)30033-6

journal_volume

139

pub_type

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Giving, but not taking, actions are spontaneously represented as social interactions: Evidence from modulation of lower alpha oscillations.