Peylo, Charline; Sterner, Elisabeth; Zeng, Yifan; students, EMPRA; Friedrich, Elisabeth V.C. (2023): TMS-induced inhibition of the left premotor cortex modulates illusory social perception. iScience, 26 (8): 107297. pp. 1-18. ISSN 2589-0042
Abstract
Communicative actions from one person are used to predict another person’s response. However, in some cases, these predictions can outweigh the processing of sensory information and lead to illusory social perception such as seeing two people interact, although only one is present (i.e., seeing a Bayesian ghost). We applied either inhibitory brain stimulation over the left premotor cortex (i.e., real TMS) or sham TMS. Then, participants indicated the presence or absence of a masked agent that followed a communicative or individual gesture of another agent. As expected, participants had more false alarms in the communicative (i.e., Bayesian ghosts) than individual condition in the sham TMS session and this difference between conditions vanished after real TMS. In contrast to our hypothesis, the number of false alarms increased (rather than decreased) after real TMS. These pre-registered findings confirm the significance of the premotor cortex for social action predictions and illusory social perception.
Doc-Type: | Article (LMU) |
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Organisational unit (Faculties): | 12 Psychology and Education Science > Department Psychology |
DFG subject classification of scientific disciplines: | Humanities and social sciences |
Date Deposited: | 30. Aug 2023 09:59 |
Last Modified: | 07. Dec 2023 12:19 |
URI: | https://oa-fund.ub.uni-muenchen.de/id/eprint/825 |
DFG: | Funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) - 382409655 |
DFG: | Funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) - 491502892 |