Sato, W. & Yoshikawa, S. Spontaneous facial mimicry in response to dynamic facial expressions. Cognition 104, 1–18 (2007). The interoceptive factors that potentially modulate the self-other boundary have been examined in several recent studies. Some of these studies used an “imitation inhibition” (or “automatic imitation”) reaction time task paradigm. In this paradigm, participants’ reactions can be distracted by visual stimuli showing another person’s actions, and the amount of distraction is measured as an index of the self-other boundary 19, 20. Ainley et al. reported a positive correlation between performance on the heartbeat counting task and distractibility in the automatic imitation task, suggesting that individuals with greater interoceptive sensitivity have greater susceptibility to others 21. Sowden et al. reported a similar finding, demonstrating that individuals with higher alexithymia traits (i.e., reduced emotional awareness, which is thought to be linked to lower interoception) exhibited a greater ability to inhibit imitation 22. These studies suggested that interoceptive sensitivity or ability is positively correlated with greater overlap between self and other. In contrast, several studies using the imitation inhibition task 18 and other measures of body ownership (rubber hand illusion 23; enfacement effect 24) reported that interoceptive sensitivity was positively correlated with a greater distinction between self and other (for a review, see 25). Thus, several studies have suggested an association between interoception and the self-other boundary, but findings have been inconsistent, and the topic requires further examination.

Unless you have a final answer to these questions it will be hard and may be a waste of money to get digital components, you may find in the future are not suitable any more, hence a possible double outlay of funds. That construction, inside the torso and hips particularly, is really clever design work; I like it a lot. The construction of their respective hairstyles is fantastic too... these models certainly are built to impress! The figures stand 26cm tall which is almost exactly 6x the height of a standard minifigure. Both are equipped with wands which may well be upscaled 6x from the minifig-scale version but look more like swords at this size!These make for excellent display pieces purely because of how imposing and large they are and they make quite an impact wherever you choose to display them. Bonus points for being able to pose them just like regular minifigures. Fukushima, H., Terasawa, Y. & Umeda, S. Association between interoception and empathy: Evidence from heartbeat-evoked brain potential. Int. J. Psychophysiol. 79, 259–265 (2011). The set is of particular interest to me because AFOLs in the UK, myself included, started building and displaying 6-scale figures around 15 years ago, so I was keen to find out how it was constructed. I really enjoyed building these and finding out how they were constructed, which was far more complicated than I expected when I first saw them. A lot of care and attention has been put into both accurately up-scaling minifigure components and also ensuring that they can be posed in the same was as minifigures.

Arnold, A. J., Winkielman, P. & Dobkins, K. Interoception and social connection. Front. Psychol. 10, 2589 (2019). The mean value for task performance was 67.95 ( SD = 19.43, range = 27.41–98.25) in the total sample ( N = 78). It showed no significant correlation with participants’ heart rate ( ρ (76) = − 0.184, p = 0.106, 95% CI [− 0.39, 0.041]). SFM task Chevallier, C., Kohls, G., Troiani, V., Brodkin, E. S. & Schultz, R. T. The social motivation theory of autism. Trends Cogn. Sci. 16, 231–239 (2012). Here’s a comparison with an actual LEGO Harry Potter Minifigure from Series 1, where you can see the similarities with their faces. I have recently added support for virtual signals to my layout software. So that I can have signals in hidden areas that will appear in my cab control view when driving a train manually. It also allows an actual visible distance signal to operate properly for an imaginary main signal that is in a tunnel and not visible to the observer.Suzuki, K., Garfinkel, S. N., Critchley, H. D. & Seth, A. K. Multisensory integration across exteroceptive and interoceptive domains modulates self-experience in the rubber-hand illusion. Neuropsychologia 51, 2909–2917 (2013). I think @Joefish knows just how pedantic I am about the scale and that's why my legs are built 11-wide, even though it made them much harder to build :-). I think the figures in 76393 look pretty good though at 12-wide, and the notched hips don't look too bad to me - a necessary compromise for a set. Unfortunately, no minifigures are included with the set, which I think is a missed opportunity as even a basic Harry or Hermione minifigure would’ve been beneficial in terms of really establishing a sense of scale. Vuilleumier, P., George, N., Lister, V., Armony, J. & Driver, J. Effects of perceived mutual gaze and gender on face processing and recognition memory. Vis. Cogn. 12, 85–101 (2005).