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    Object ownership and action: The influence of social context and choice on the physical manipulation of personal property

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    Authors
    Constable, M.
    Kritikos, A.
    Lipp, Ottmar
    Bayliss, A.
    Date
    2014
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Constable, M. and Kritikos, A. and Lipp, O. and Bayliss, A. 2014. Object ownership and action: The influence of social context and choice on the physical manipulation of personal property. Experimental Brain Research. 232 (2): pp. 3749-3761.
    Source Title
    Experimental Brain Research
    DOI
    10.1007/s00221-014-4063-1
    ISSN
    00144819
    School
    School of Psychology
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/48000
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    Understanding who owns what is important for guiding appropriate action in a social context. Previously, we demonstrated that ownership influences our kinematic patterns associated with hand–object interactions (Constable et al. in Cognition 119(3):430–437, 2011). Here, we present a series of experiments aimed at determining the underlying mechanisms associated with this effect. We asked participants to lift mugs that differed in terms of ownership status (Experiments 1 and 2) and personal preference (Experiment 3) while recording spatial and acceleration measures. In Experiment 1, participants lifted their own mug with greater acceleration and drew it closer to themselves than they did the experimenter’s mug. They also lifted the experimenter’s mug further to the right compared with other mugs. In Experiment 2, spatial trajectory effects were preserved, but the acceleration effect abolished, when the owner of the ‘other-owned’ mug was a known—but absent—confederate. Experiment 3 demonstrated that merely choosing to use a mug was not sufficient to elicit rightward drift or acceleration effects. We suggest that these findings reflect separate and distinct mechanisms associated with socially related visuomotor processing.

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