Brain activation related to the perception of minimal agency cues: The role of the mirror system

Stosic, Marina; Braß, Marcel; Hoeck, Nicole Van; Ma, Ning; Overwalle, Frank Van

doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.10.007

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“…Observation of goal-directed action reliably activates the action observation network/mirror neuron system 72,73 . For example, observation of a goal-directed, selfpropelled object (a ball) jumping over a barrier elicits activity in the inferior parietal lobe (AIPS, but not pSTS) and the premotor cortex in comparison with a condition in which the same object makes the same movements, but is launched 74 .…”

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Animacy and the prediction of behaviour

Schultz¹,

Frith²

2022

Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews

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Animacy and the prediction of behaviour

Schultz¹,

Frith²

2022

Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews

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“…Counterfactual reasoning that involves many layers of contextual abstraction (Gilead et al, 2012 ) may engage dorsal mPFC (dmPFC; Scott et al, 2003 ; Binder et al, 2009 ; Urrutia et al, 2012 ; Baetens et al, 2013 ; Van Hoeck et al, 2013 , 2014 ). Goal-directed behavior, a common component of counterfactual thought, have been shown to engage inferior partietal lobe (IPL) and premotor cortex (Glover, 2004 ; Gazzola and Keysers, 2009 ; Van Overwalle and Baetens, 2009 ; Moody and Gennari, 2010 ; Stosic et al, 2014 ). It is worth emphasizing that because the content of counterfactual scenarios varies, so too will the engagement of different brain networks.…”

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Cognitive neuroscience of human counterfactual reasoning

Hoeck

Watson

Barbey

2015

Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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Counterfactual reasoning is a hallmark of human thought, enabling the capacity to shift from perceiving the immediate environment to an alternative, imagined perspective. Mental representations of counterfactual possibilities (e.g., imagined past events or future outcomes not yet at hand) provide the basis for learning from past experience, enable planning and prediction, support creativity and insight, and give rise to emotions and social attributions (e.g., regret and blame). Yet remarkably little is known about the psychological and neural foundations of counterfactual reasoning. In this review, we survey recent findings from psychology and neuroscience indicating that counterfactual thought depends on an integrative network of systems for affective processing, mental simulation, and cognitive control. We review evidence to elucidate how these mechanisms are systematically altered through psychiatric illness and neurological disease. We propose that counterfactual thinking depends on the coordination of multiple information processing systems that together enable adaptive behavior and goal-directed decision making and make recommendations for the study of counterfactual inference in health, aging, and disease.

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“…Similar to the findings of this study, studies show left superior parietal and left supramarginal gyri, along with inferior frontal, activation while healthy participants view high-intention animations modeled after Heider and Simmel (Osaka et al, 2012). Other investigators of healthy participants report activations of both IPL and IFG when viewing a circular shape moving as a self-propelled agent versus launched by a lever mechanism (Stosic et al, 2014), and of both superior parietal cortices when detecting self-propelled intentional movement between geometric shapes (Blakemore et al, 2003). Additional adjacent areas may participate in animacy attribution.…”

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“…Among normal participants, the mechanisms that underlie social attribution to geometric shapes affect higher social cognition such as mental state attribution and judging interactions as interpersonal (Castelli, Happé, Frith, & Frith, 2000; Gobbini, Koralek, Bryan, Montgomery, & Haxby, 2007; Schultz et al, 2003). These mechanisms help detect goal-directed motion, attribute intention, distinguish intentional movements from mechanical ones, and dissociate intentionality from animacy detection (Blakemore et al, 2003; Gao, Scholl, & McCarthy, 2012; Lee, Gao, & McCarthy, 2014; Stosic, Brass, Van Hoeck, Ma, & Van Overwalle, 2014). From these investigations, and others, two basic aspects of social attribution emerge: that of ascribing animacy (van Buren, Uddenberg, & Scholl, 2016; Gao and Scholl, 2011; Santos et al, 2010; Schultz & Bülthoff, 2013), and that of ascribing agency (Gobbini et al, 2007; Osaka, Ikeda, & Osaka, 2012; Stosic et al, 2014).…”

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The attribution of animacy and agency in frontotemporal dementia versus Alzheimer's disease

Fong

Paholpak

Daianu

et al. 2017

Cortex

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Impaired attribution of animacy (state of living or being sentient) and of agency (capability of intrinsically-driven action) may underlie social behavior disturbances in behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD). We presented the Heider and Simmel film of moving geometric shapes to 11 bvFTD patients, 11 Alzheimer’s disease (AD) patients, and 12 healthy controls (HCs) and rated their recorded verbal responses for animacy attribution and agency attribution. All participants had skin conductance (SC) continuously recorded while viewing the film, and all dementia participants underwent magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for regions of interest. The bvFTD patients, but not the AD patients, were impaired in animacy attribution, compared to the HCs. In contrast, both bvFTD and AD groups were impaired in agency attribution, compared to the HCs, and only the HCs had increasing SC responsiveness during viewing of the film. On MRI analysis of cortical thicknesses, animacy scores significantly correlated across groups with the right pars orbitalis and opercularis; agency scores with the left inferior and superior parietal cortices and the supramarginal gyrus; and both scores with the left cingulate isthmus involved in visuospatial context. These findings suggest that bvFTD is specifically associated with impaired animacy attribution from right inferior frontal atrophy. In contrast, both dementias may have impaired agency attribution from left parietal cortical atrophy and absent SC increases during the film, a sympathetic indicator of attribution of a social “story” to the moving shapes. These findings clarify disease-related changes in social attribution and corroborate the neuroanatomical origins of animacy and agency.

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Brain activation related to the perception of minimal agency cues: The role of the mirror system

Cited by 13 publications

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Animacy and the prediction of behaviour

Animacy and the prediction of behaviour

Cognitive neuroscience of human counterfactual reasoning

The attribution of animacy and agency in frontotemporal dementia versus Alzheimer's disease

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