Imitation of Touching Dangerous Animals Triggers Motor Inhibition in a Primed Target Grasping-Categorization Task

J Mot Behav. 2023 May 24:1-13. doi: 10.1080/00222895.2023.2217109. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThe present study adopted a primed target grasping-categorization task and selected pictures of animals as target stimuli to investigate whether motor inhibition influences the motor interference effect of dangerous animals. The results identified more positive P2 and P3 amplitudes accompanied by larger delta event-related synchronization in the dangerous condition than in the neutral condition, suggesting that compared to neutral animal targets, dangerous animal targets attracted increased attentional resources in early processing and that subjects recruited more cognitive resources to process dangerous animal targets than neutral animal targets. Moreover, the results identified larger theta event-related synchronization (reflecting motor inhibition) in the dangerous condition than in the neutral condition. Thus, the results suggested that prepared motor responses were inhibited to avoid touching dangerous animal targets in the current task, supporting that motor inhibition influences the motor interference effect of dangerous animals based on a primed target grasping-categorization task.PMID:37225178 | DOI:10.1080/00222895.2023.2217109

Source: Journal of Motor Behavior - May 24, 2023 Category: Neurology Authors: Peng Liu Jiali Zheng Jiaxin Wang Chunyuan Wang Yongchun Wang Leyun Lin Yonghui Wang Source Type: research