Influence of Coactors on Saccadic and Manual Responses

Two experiments were conducted to investigate the effects of coaction on saccadic and manual responses. Participants performed the experiments either in a solitary condition or in a group of coactors who performed the same tasks at the same time. In Experiment 1, participants completed a pro- and antisaccade task where they were required to make saccades towards (prosaccades) or away (antisaccades) from a peripheral visual stimulus. In Experiment 2, participants performed a visual discrimination task that required both making a saccade towards a peripheral stimulus and making a manual response in reaction to the stimulus’s orientation. The results showed that performance of stimulus-driven responses was independent of the social context, while volitionally controlled responses were delayed by the presence of coactors. These findings are in line with studies assessing the effect of attentional load on saccadic control during dual-task paradigms. In particular, antisaccades – but not prosaccades – were influenced by the type of social context. Additionally, the number of coactors present in the group had a moderating effect on both saccadic and manual responses. The results support an attentional view of social influences.

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Socially Gaslighted Women in Bama’s Sangati

Think India ◽

10.26643/think-india.v22i3.8394 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 22 (3) ◽

pp. 749-756

Author(s):

A. Rani ◽

Dr.T.S. Ramesh

Keyword(s):

Social Context ◽

Social System ◽

Social Influences ◽

Research Paper ◽

Family Responsibility ◽

The Social ◽

Younger Generation ◽

The Impact ◽

Innate Tendency ◽

Feminine Ideology

Gaslighting is a systematic psychological manipulation of behavior. Manipulative influence is exerted on a targeted individual or group to have desired behavior. This research paper applies the term gaslighting in the social context. The marginalized, especially women are socially gaslighted by the power structured social system. This paper studies Bama’s Sangatiwhich deals with many gaslighted women by narrating interconnected anecdotes. The conceptualized feminine ideology becomes a weapon for the degradation and elimination of women from the center. The impact of gaslighting on the older generation is so powerful that one cannot trace any sign of shattering it. The younger generation, in spite of the awareness of their abuses andpsychological and social influences, cannot overcome gaslighting as they are oppressed by many tactics like placing them in a shameful situation, depriving their rights, denying them their respect. They cannot escape from being victims of gaslighting as they are tied up by family responsibility and their innate tendency for motherhood.

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Differential neural activity patterns mediate learning across contexts in a social cichlid fish

10.1101/2021.04.04.438393 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Mariana Rodriguez-Santiago ◽

Alex L Jordan ◽

Hans A Hofmann

Keyword(s):

Social Context ◽

Neural Activity ◽

Discrimination Task ◽

Basolateral Amygdala ◽

Activity Patterns ◽

Cichlid Fish ◽

Brain Regions ◽

Social Contexts ◽

Early Gene ◽

The Social

Learning and decision-making are greatly influenced by the social context surrounding individuals. When navigating a complex social world, individuals must quickly ascertain where to gain important resources and which group members are useful sources of such information. Such dynamic behavioral processes require neural mechanisms that are flexible across contexts. Here we examined how the social context influences the learning response during a visual cue discrimination task and the neural activity patterns that underlie acquisition of this novel information. Using the cichlid fish, Astatotilapia burtoni, we show that learning of the task is faster in social groups than in a non-social context. We quantified the expression of Fos, an immediate-early gene, across candidate brain regions known to play a role in social behavior and learning, such as the putative teleost homologues of the mammalian hippocampus, basolateral amygdala, and medial amygdala/BNST complex. We found that neural activity patterns differ between social and non-social contexts. Our results suggest that while the same brain regions may be involved in the learning of a discrimination task independent of social context, activity in each region encodes specific aspects of the task based on context.

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