Biological motion task performance predicts superior temporal sulcus activity

Herrington, John D.; Nymberg, Charlotte; Schultz, Robert T.

doi:10.1016/j.bandc.2011.09.001

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“…These studies suggest that in neurotypical individuals, processing biological motion relies on neural activity in the superior temporal sulcus, (Carter and Pelphrey, 2006;Morris et al, 2008;Pelphrey et al, 2005;Pelphrey and Morris, 2006), inferior frontal gyrus, amygdala, and visual areas including the fusiform gyrus (eg, Herrington et al, 2011). In individuals with ASD, perception of biological motion is consistently associated with reduced activity in the superior temporal sulcus compared with controls when viewing point-light displays (Freitag et al, 2008;Herrington et al, 2007;Koldewyn et al, 2011).…”

Section: Biological Motionmentioning

confidence: 96%

Neural Signatures of Autism Spectrum Disorders: Insights into Brain Network Dynamics

Hernandez

Rudie

Green

et al. 2014

Neuropsychopharmacol

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Neuroimaging investigations of autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) have advanced our understanding of atypical brain function and structure, and have recently converged on a model of altered network-level connectivity. Traditional task-based functional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and volume-based structural MRI studies have identified widespread atypicalities in brain regions involved in social behavior and other core ASD-related behavioral deficits. More recent advances in MR-neuroimaging methods allow for quantification of brain connectivity using diffusion tensor imaging, functional connectivity, and graph theoretic methods. These newer techniques have moved the field toward a systems-level understanding of ASD etiology, integrating functional and structural measures across distal brain regions. Neuroimaging findings in ASD as a whole have been mixed and at times contradictory, likely due to the vast genetic and phenotypic heterogeneity characteristic of the disorder. Future longitudinal studies of brain development will be crucial to yield insights into mechanisms of disease etiology in ASD sub-populations. Advances in neuroimaging methods and large-scale collaborations will also allow for an integrated approach linking neuroimaging, genetics, and phenotypic data.

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Section: Biological Motionmentioning

confidence: 96%

Neural Signatures of Autism Spectrum Disorders: Insights into Brain Network Dynamics

Hernandez

Rudie

Green

et al. 2014

Neuropsychopharmacol

120

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“…(Bastiaansen, Thioux, & Keysers, 2009;Lestou, Pollick, & Kourtzi, 2008;Van den Stock, et al, 2011); Superior Temporal Sulcus (STS) (Grèzes, Fonlupt, Bertenthal, Delon-Martin, Segebarth, & Decety, 2001;Grossman, Donnelly, Price, Pickens, Morgan, Neighbor, et al, 2000;Herrington, Nymberg, & Schultz, 2011;Lestou, Pollick, & Kourtzi, 2008;Penton, Fernandez, Leon, Garcia, Iturria-Medina, et al 2010); Medial Temporal/Medial Superior Temporal Areas (MT/MST), ~ V3 and V 5 (BA 18,19) (Grossman, et al, 2000;Kourtzi & Kanwisher, 2000;Senior, et al, 2000;; Inferior Parietal Gyrus/Lobule (BA 39/40) (Bastiaansen, Thioux, & Keysers, 2009); Motor Cortex (BA 4) (Urgesi, Moro, Candidi, & Aglioti, Gyrus/Lobule (BA 39/40) ; Occipitotemporal Cortex (BA37), ~ "Extrastriate Body Area" (EBA) (Calvo-Merino, Urgesi, Orgs, Aglioti, & Haggard, 2010). …”

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Dance as a subject for empirical aesthetics.

Christensen¹,

Calvo-Merino²

2013

Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts

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This is the accepted version of the paper.This version of the publication may differ from the final published version. There may be minor differences in this draft with respect to the published version of the paper. Both authors contributed to the paper equally. Permanent repository link Dance as a subject for empirical aestheticsWe are grateful to Marcos Nadal for very useful comments and discussions on previous drafts of the paper and to dancers and choreographers (Tom Sapsford and MavinKhoo) for their help and assistance during some of the projects described throughout this paper. AbstractThe purpose of this paper is to highlight the possibilities that research on dance appreciation offers empirical aesthetics, as well as the challenges it poses. Behavioral and neuroimaging approaches have, to date, mainly focused on the perception and recognition of human body movement and structure. A small number of studies, nonetheless, have explicitly taken the basic research on the perceptual, emotional and cognitive processes engaged during movement observation, together with their neural concomitants, as a starting point to understand the aesthetic experience triggered by the observation of a dance. We provide an overview of these studies and, thereafter, point out avenues for future research on dance appreciation within the scope of empirical aesthetics. We also note some methodological and conceptual issues that should be taken into account in the design of empirical studies of the aesthetic appreciation of dance, including dance theory scholarship and humanistic approaches to dance practice.Finally, we describe how common movement features of dance styles around the world suggest that humans may be endowed with an evolved cognitive ability to appreciate and to be aesthetically moved by dance.

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“…Since these publications, a large series of papers have confirmed the implication of the STS in the perception of images moving in a natural biological way. Indeed, more recently Herrington and colleagues showed STS activation related to the observation of point lights displaying human movement compared to point lights displaying a moving wheel [42]. Additionally to global body dislocation, STS activation was found during the perception of eyes, face, mouth and hands movements [2,15,43].…”

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Autism, social cognition and superior temporal sulcus

Zilbovicius¹,

Saitovitch²,

Popa³

et al. 2013

OJPsych

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Results on brain imaging studies have led to a better understanding of the neural circuits involved in social cognition and its implication in autism spectrum disorders (ASD). It has been shown that the superior temporal sulcus (STS) is highly implicated in social processes, from perception of socially relevant information, such as body movements or eye gaze, to more complex social cognition processes. Furthermore, several multimodal brain imaging results point to anatomo-functional abnormalities in the STS in both children and adults with ASD. These results are highly consistent with social impairments in ASD, among which eye gaze perception is particularly relevant. Gaze abnormalities can now be objectively measured using eye-tracking methodology, leading to a better characterization of social perception impairments in autism. Moreover, these gaze abnormalities have been associated with STS abnormalities in ASD. Based on these results, our hypothesis is that anatomo-functional anomalies in the STS occurring early across brain development could constitute the first step in the cascade of neural dysfunction underlying autism. In the present work, we'll review recent data of STS contribution to normal social cognition and it's implication in autism.

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Biological motion task performance predicts superior temporal sulcus activity

Cited by 90 publications

References 77 publications

Neural Signatures of Autism Spectrum Disorders: Insights into Brain Network Dynamics

Neural Signatures of Autism Spectrum Disorders: Insights into Brain Network Dynamics

Dance as a subject for empirical aesthetics.

Autism, social cognition and superior temporal sulcus

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