The relation between self-reported empathy and motor identification with imagined agents.

<h4>Background</h4>In a previous study, we found that when required to imagine another person performing an action, participants reported a higher correspondence between their own handedness and the hand used by the imagined person when the agent was seen from the back compared to when t...

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Autores principales:	Daniele Marzoli, Rocco Palumbo, Alberto Di Domenico, Barbara Penolazzi, Patrizia Garganese, Luca Tommasi
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:974f96cf15a1425a9277709e269a88552021-11-18T06:59:51ZThe relation between self-reported empathy and motor identification with imagined agents.1932-620310.1371/journal.pone.0014595https://doaj.org/article/974f96cf15a1425a9277709e269a88552011-01-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/21298089/?tool=EBIhttps://doaj.org/toc/1932-6203<h4>Background</h4>In a previous study, we found that when required to imagine another person performing an action, participants reported a higher correspondence between their own handedness and the hand used by the imagined person when the agent was seen from the back compared to when the agent was seen from the front. This result was explained as evidence of a greater involvement of motor areas in the back-view perspective, possibly indicating a greater proneness to put oneself in the agent's shoes in such a condition. In turn, the proneness to put oneself in another's shoes could also be considered as a cue of greater identification with the other, that is a form of empathy. If this is the case, the proportion of lateral matches vs mismatches should be different for subjects with high and low self-reported empathy. In the present study, we aimed at testing this hypothesis.<h4>Methodology/principal findings</h4>Participants were required to imagine a person performing a single manual action in a back view and to indicate the hand used by the imagined person during movement execution. Consistent with our hypothesis, the proportion of matching between the handedness of participants and the handedness of agents imagined was higher for participants scoring high in a self-report measure of empathy. Importantly, this relationship was specific for females.<h4>Conclusions/significance</h4>At least for females, our data seem to corroborate the idea of a link between self-reported empathy and motor identification with imagined agents. This sex-specific result is consistent with neuroimaging studies indicating a stronger involvement of action representations during emotional and empathic processing in females than in males. In sum, our findings underline the possibility of employing behavioral research as a test-bed for theories deriving from functional studies suggesting a link between empathic processing and the activation of motor-related areas.Daniele MarzoliRocco PalumboAlberto Di DomenicoBarbara PenolazziPatrizia GarganeseLuca TommasiPublic Library of Science (PLoS)articleMedicineRScienceQENPLoS ONE, Vol 6, Iss 1, p e14595 (2011)
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spellingShingle	Medicine R Science Q Daniele Marzoli Rocco Palumbo Alberto Di Domenico Barbara Penolazzi Patrizia Garganese Luca Tommasi The relation between self-reported empathy and motor identification with imagined agents.
description	<h4>Background</h4>In a previous study, we found that when required to imagine another person performing an action, participants reported a higher correspondence between their own handedness and the hand used by the imagined person when the agent was seen from the back compared to when the agent was seen from the front. This result was explained as evidence of a greater involvement of motor areas in the back-view perspective, possibly indicating a greater proneness to put oneself in the agent's shoes in such a condition. In turn, the proneness to put oneself in another's shoes could also be considered as a cue of greater identification with the other, that is a form of empathy. If this is the case, the proportion of lateral matches vs mismatches should be different for subjects with high and low self-reported empathy. In the present study, we aimed at testing this hypothesis.<h4>Methodology/principal findings</h4>Participants were required to imagine a person performing a single manual action in a back view and to indicate the hand used by the imagined person during movement execution. Consistent with our hypothesis, the proportion of matching between the handedness of participants and the handedness of agents imagined was higher for participants scoring high in a self-report measure of empathy. Importantly, this relationship was specific for females.<h4>Conclusions/significance</h4>At least for females, our data seem to corroborate the idea of a link between self-reported empathy and motor identification with imagined agents. This sex-specific result is consistent with neuroimaging studies indicating a stronger involvement of action representations during emotional and empathic processing in females than in males. In sum, our findings underline the possibility of employing behavioral research as a test-bed for theories deriving from functional studies suggesting a link between empathic processing and the activation of motor-related areas.
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author	Daniele Marzoli Rocco Palumbo Alberto Di Domenico Barbara Penolazzi Patrizia Garganese Luca Tommasi
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title	The relation between self-reported empathy and motor identification with imagined agents.
title_short	The relation between self-reported empathy and motor identification with imagined agents.
title_full	The relation between self-reported empathy and motor identification with imagined agents.
title_fullStr	The relation between self-reported empathy and motor identification with imagined agents.
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The relation between self-reported empathy and motor identification with imagined agents.

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