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Visuo-Motor Affective Interplay: Bonding Scenes Promote Implicit Motor Pre-dispositions Associated With Social Grooming–A Pilot Study

Proximity and interpersonal contact are prominent components of social connection. Giving affective touch to others is fundamental for human bonding. This brief report presents preliminary results from a pilot study. It explores if exposure to bonding scenes impacts the activity of specific muscles...

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Autores principales: Grichtchouk, Olga, Oliveira, Jose M., Campagnoli, Rafaela R., Franklin, Camila, Correa, Monica F., Pereira, Mirtes G., Vargas, Claudia D., David, Isabel A., Souza, Gabriela G. L., Gleiser, Sonia, Keil, Andreas, Rocha-Rego, Vanessa, Volchan, Eliane
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9022038/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35465505
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.817699
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author Grichtchouk, Olga
Oliveira, Jose M.
Campagnoli, Rafaela R.
Franklin, Camila
Correa, Monica F.
Pereira, Mirtes G.
Vargas, Claudia D.
David, Isabel A.
Souza, Gabriela G. L.
Gleiser, Sonia
Keil, Andreas
Rocha-Rego, Vanessa
Volchan, Eliane
author_facet Grichtchouk, Olga
Oliveira, Jose M.
Campagnoli, Rafaela R.
Franklin, Camila
Correa, Monica F.
Pereira, Mirtes G.
Vargas, Claudia D.
David, Isabel A.
Souza, Gabriela G. L.
Gleiser, Sonia
Keil, Andreas
Rocha-Rego, Vanessa
Volchan, Eliane
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description Proximity and interpersonal contact are prominent components of social connection. Giving affective touch to others is fundamental for human bonding. This brief report presents preliminary results from a pilot study. It explores if exposure to bonding scenes impacts the activity of specific muscles related to physical interaction. Fingers flexion is a very important component when performing most actions of affectionate contact. We explored the visuo-motor affective interplay by priming participants with bonding scenes and assessing the electromyographic activity of the fingers flexor muscle, in the absence of any overt movements. Photographs of dyads in social interaction and of the same dyads not interacting were employed. We examined the effects upon the electromyographical activity: (i) during the passive exposure to pictures, and (ii) during picture offset and when expecting the signal to perform a fingers flexion task. Interacting dyads compared to matched non-interacting dyads increased electromyographic activity of the fingers flexor muscle in both contexts. Specific capture of visual bonding cues at the level of visual cortex had been described in the literature. Here we showed that the neural processing of visual bonding cues reaches the fingers flexor muscle. Besides, previous visualization of bonding cues enhanced background electromyographic activity during motor preparation to perform the fingers flexion task, which might reflect a sustained leakage of central motor activity downstream leading to increase in firing of the respective motor neurons. These data suggest, at the effector level, an implicit visuo-motor connection in which social interaction cues evoke intrinsic dispositions toward affectionate social behavior.
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spelling pubmed-90220382022-04-22 Visuo-Motor Affective Interplay: Bonding Scenes Promote Implicit Motor Pre-dispositions Associated With Social Grooming–A Pilot Study Grichtchouk, Olga Oliveira, Jose M. Campagnoli, Rafaela R. Franklin, Camila Correa, Monica F. Pereira, Mirtes G. Vargas, Claudia D. David, Isabel A. Souza, Gabriela G. L. Gleiser, Sonia Keil, Andreas Rocha-Rego, Vanessa Volchan, Eliane Front Psychol Psychology Proximity and interpersonal contact are prominent components of social connection. Giving affective touch to others is fundamental for human bonding. This brief report presents preliminary results from a pilot study. It explores if exposure to bonding scenes impacts the activity of specific muscles related to physical interaction. Fingers flexion is a very important component when performing most actions of affectionate contact. We explored the visuo-motor affective interplay by priming participants with bonding scenes and assessing the electromyographic activity of the fingers flexor muscle, in the absence of any overt movements. Photographs of dyads in social interaction and of the same dyads not interacting were employed. We examined the effects upon the electromyographical activity: (i) during the passive exposure to pictures, and (ii) during picture offset and when expecting the signal to perform a fingers flexion task. Interacting dyads compared to matched non-interacting dyads increased electromyographic activity of the fingers flexor muscle in both contexts. Specific capture of visual bonding cues at the level of visual cortex had been described in the literature. Here we showed that the neural processing of visual bonding cues reaches the fingers flexor muscle. Besides, previous visualization of bonding cues enhanced background electromyographic activity during motor preparation to perform the fingers flexion task, which might reflect a sustained leakage of central motor activity downstream leading to increase in firing of the respective motor neurons. These data suggest, at the effector level, an implicit visuo-motor connection in which social interaction cues evoke intrinsic dispositions toward affectionate social behavior. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-04-07 /pmc/articles/PMC9022038/ /pubmed/35465505 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.817699 Text en Copyright © 2022 Grichtchouk, Oliveira, Campagnoli, Franklin, Correa, Pereira, Vargas, David, Souza, Gleiser, Keil, Rocha-Rego and Volchan. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
spellingShingle Psychology
Grichtchouk, Olga
Oliveira, Jose M.
Campagnoli, Rafaela R.
Franklin, Camila
Correa, Monica F.
Pereira, Mirtes G.
Vargas, Claudia D.
David, Isabel A.
Souza, Gabriela G. L.
Gleiser, Sonia
Keil, Andreas
Rocha-Rego, Vanessa
Volchan, Eliane
Visuo-Motor Affective Interplay: Bonding Scenes Promote Implicit Motor Pre-dispositions Associated With Social Grooming–A Pilot Study
title Visuo-Motor Affective Interplay: Bonding Scenes Promote Implicit Motor Pre-dispositions Associated With Social Grooming–A Pilot Study
title_full Visuo-Motor Affective Interplay: Bonding Scenes Promote Implicit Motor Pre-dispositions Associated With Social Grooming–A Pilot Study
title_fullStr Visuo-Motor Affective Interplay: Bonding Scenes Promote Implicit Motor Pre-dispositions Associated With Social Grooming–A Pilot Study
title_full_unstemmed Visuo-Motor Affective Interplay: Bonding Scenes Promote Implicit Motor Pre-dispositions Associated With Social Grooming–A Pilot Study
title_short Visuo-Motor Affective Interplay: Bonding Scenes Promote Implicit Motor Pre-dispositions Associated With Social Grooming–A Pilot Study
title_sort visuo-motor affective interplay: bonding scenes promote implicit motor pre-dispositions associated with social grooming–a pilot study
topic Psychology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9022038/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35465505
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.817699
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