Does Perception of Biological Motion Rely on Specific Brain Regions?

Grèzes, Julie; Fonlupt, Pierre; Bertenthal, Bennett I.; Delon‐Martin, Chantal; Segebarth, Christoph; Decety, Jean

doi:10.1006/nimg.2000.0740

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“…His lesion in the left hemisphere includes portions of the parietal lobe that has been demonstrated by fMRI studies to be involved with perception of meaningful body movement (Bonda, Petrides, Ostry, & Evans, 1996). Further fMRI studies have confirmed this notion (Grèzes et al, 2001) and showed that the left intraparietal cortex is involved in the perception of non-rigid biological motion. Perception of biological motion plays an important role in identifying and interpreting the actions of others and neuropsychological studies of patients with left posterior cortical lesions have shown severe deficits in the comprehension of goal-directed reaching (Fisk & Goodale, 1988).…”

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Perception of biological motion in parietal patients

2003

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Perception of biological motion in parietal patients

2003

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“…One explanation of our findings may be found at the neurophysiological level. For instance, some areas of the brain are known to be associated with the perception (but not the execution) of biological motion including the posterior superior temporal sulcus or STS (Allison, Puce, & McCarthy, 2000;Grèzes, Armony, Rowe, & Passingham, 2003;Grèzes, Fonlupt, Bertenthal, Delon-Martin, Segebarth, & Decety, 2001;Iacoboni, Molnar-Szakacs, Gallese, Buccino, Mazziotta, & Rizzolatti, 2005). STS is also known to be a source of afferent input for the so-called human "mirror system" (Rizzolatti & Craighero, 2004).…”

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Social coordination dynamics: Measuring human bonding

Oullier¹,

Guzman²,

Jantzen³

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Social Neuroscience

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Spontaneous social coordination has been extensively described in natural settings but so far no controlled methodological approaches have been employed that systematically advance investigations into the possible self-organized nature of bond formation and dissolution between humans. We hypothesized that, under certain contexts, spontaneous synchrony -a well-described phenomenon in biological and physical settings-could emerge spontaneously between humans as a result of information exchange. Here, a new way to quantify interpersonal interactions in real time is proposed. In a simple experimental paradigm, pairs of participants facing each other were required to actively produce actions, while provided (or not) with the vision of similar actions being performed by someone else. New indices of interpersonal coordination, inspired by the theoretical framework of coordination dynamics (based on relative phase and frequency overlap between movements of individuals forming a pair) were developed and used. Results revealed that spontaneous phase synchrony (i.e., unintentional in-phase coordinated behavior) between two people emerges as soon as they exchange visual information, even if they are not explicitly instructed to coordinate with each other. Using the same tools, we also quantified the degree to which the behavior of each individual remained influenced by the social encounter even after information exchange had been removed, apparently a kind of social memory.

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“…The STS responded to the articulated human motion and the MTG to non-articulated motion, indicating that these high-order processing mechanisms process selectively the higher-order motion type (Beauchamp et al 2002). Grezes et al (2001) also reported activation differences between observing rigid and non-rigid motion. Specifically, they observed an anterior-posterior gradient of activation in the STS regions, with non-rigid motion producing the most anterior activation.…”

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Electrophysiology and brain imaging of biological motion

Puce

Perrett

2003

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B

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The movements of the faces and bodies of other conspecifics provide stimuli of considerable interest to the social primate. Studies of single cells, field potential recordings and functional neuroimaging data indicate that specialized visual mechanisms exist in the superior temporal sulcus (STS) of both human and non-human primates that produce selective neural responses to moving natural images of faces and bodies. STS mechanisms also process simplified displays of biological motion involving point lights marking the limb articulations of animate bodies and geometrical shapes whose motion simulates purposeful behaviour. Facial movements such as deviations in eye gaze, important for gauging an individual's social attention, and mouth movements, indicative of potential utterances, generate particularly robust neural responses that differentiate between movement types. Collectively such visual processing can enable the decoding of complex social signals and through its outputs to limbic, frontal and parietal systems the STS may play a part in enabling appropriate affective responses and social behaviour.

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Does Perception of Biological Motion Rely on Specific Brain Regions?

Cited by 306 publications

References 56 publications

Perception of biological motion in parietal patients

Perception of biological motion in parietal patients

Social coordination dynamics: Measuring human bonding

Electrophysiology and brain imaging of biological motion

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