Response-Specific Effects of Pain Observation on Motor Behavior

Autor/inn/en	Morrison, India; Poliakoff, Ellen; Gordon, Lucy; Downing, Paul
Titel	Response-Specific Effects of Pain Observation on Motor Behavior
Quelle	In: Cognition, 104 (2007) 2, S.407-416 (10 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0010-0277
DOI	10.1016/j.cognition.2006.07.006
Schlagwörter	Observation; Psychomotor Skills; Pain; Reaction Time; Videotape Recordings; Measures (Individuals); Task Analysis; Cognitive Processes + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Beobachtung; Psychomotorische Aktivität; Schmerz; Reaktionsvermögen; Messdaten; Aufgabenanalyse; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess
Abstract	How does seeing a painful event happening to someone else influence the observer's own motor system? To address this question, we measured simple reaction times following videos showing noxious or innocuous implements contacting corporeal or noncorporeal objects. Key releases in a go/nogo task were speeded, and key presses slowed, after subjects saw a video of a needle pricking a fingertip. No such effect was seen when the observed hand was replaced by a sponge, nor when the needle was replaced by a cotton bud. These findings demonstrate that pain observation modulates the motor system by speeding withdrawal movements and slowing approach movements of the finger. This illustrates a basic mechanism by which visual information about pain is used to facilitate appropriate behavioral responses. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10