ArticleExperimental brain research2017
Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) of the inferior frontal cortex affects the "social scaling" of extrapersonal space depending on perspective-taking ability.
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- Stimulation of the Social Brain Improves Perspective Selection in Older Adults: A HD-tDCS Study.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2021Trial
- Editorial: Physical and psychological proximity in humans: From the body to the mind and vice-versa.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Regional accents modulate perspective in geographical space.Psychological research · 2022Article
- The influence of cooperative action intention on object affordance: evidence from the perspective-taking ability of individuals.Psychological research · 2022Article
- Transcranial electric stimulation as a neural interface to gain insight on human brain functions: current knowledge and future perspective.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2022Review
- Touched by loneliness-how loneliness impacts the response to observed human touch: a tDCS study.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2022Article
- Functional Autonomy Affects Elderly Spatial Perception in Body-Centered Coordinates.Journal of aging research · 2020Article
- The role of the inferior frontal gyrus in vicarious social touch: A transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) study.Developmental cognitive neuroscience · 2019Article
- The Action Constraints of an Object Increase Distance Estimation in Extrapersonal Space.Frontiers in psychology · 2019Article
- Individuals with Borderline Personality Disorder show larger preferred social distance in live dyadic interactions.Psychiatry research · 2018Article
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Abstract
When we have to judge the distance between another person and an object (social condition), we judge this distance as being smaller compared to judging the distance between two objects (nonsocial condition). It has been suggested that this compression is mediated by the attribution of a motor potential to the reference frame (other person vs. object). In order to explore the neural basis of this effect, we investigated whether the modulation of activity in the inferior frontal cortex (IFC) of the left hemisphere (recruited during visuospatial processes with a social component) changes the way we categorize space in a social compared with a nonsocial condition. We applied transcranial direct current stimulation to the left IFC, with different polarities (anodal, cathodal, and sham) while subjects performed an extrapersonal space categorization task. Interestingly, anodal stimulation of IFC induced an higher compression of space in the social compared to nonsocial condition. By contrast, cathodal stimulation induced the opposite effect. Furthermore, we found that this effect is modulated by interindividual differences in cognitive perspective taking. Our data support the idea that IFC is recruited during the social categorization of space.
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