Extrastriate body area in human occipital cortex responds to the performance of motor actions

Astafiev, Serguei V.; Stanley, Christine M.; Shulman, Gordon L.; Corbetta, Maurizio

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“…The recognition of a stationary body of other people involves the extrastriate body area (EBA), and recent research suggests that one's own body movements (e.g., of hand and foot) can also involve the EBA [Astafiev et al, 2004;Jeannerod, 2004]; More importantly, human motions such as body, gaze, and hand movements involve the superior temporal sulcus (STS). This is most often identified at the right hemisphere (all studies reported in Table I or 100%) and less so at the left hemisphere (55%).…”

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Social cognition and the brain: A meta‐analysis

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2008

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This meta-analysis explores the location and function of brain areas involved in social cognition, or the capacity to understand people's behavioral intentions, social beliefs, and personality traits. On the basis of over 200 fMRI studies, it tests alternative theoretical proposals that attempt to explain how several brain areas process information relevant for social cognition. The results suggest that inferring temporary states such as goals, intentions, and desires of other people-even when they are false and unjust from our own perspective-strongly engages the temporo-parietal junction (TPJ). Inferring more enduring dispositions of others and the self, or interpersonal norms and scripts, engages the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC), although temporal states can also activate the mPFC. Other candidate tasks reflecting general-purpose brain processes that may potentially subserve social cognition are briefly reviewed, such as sequence learning, causality detection, emotion processing, and executive functioning (action monitoring, attention, dual task monitoring, episodic memory retrieval), but none of them overlaps uniquely with the regions activated during social cognition. Hence, it appears that social cognition particularly engages the TPJ and mPFC regions. The available evidence is consistent with the role of a TPJ-related mirror system for inferring temporary goals and intentions at a relatively perceptual level of representation, and the mPFC as a module that integrates social information across time and allows reflection and representation of traits and norms, and presumably also of intentionality, at a more abstract cognitive level.

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Section: Identifying the Social Othermentioning

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Social cognition and the brain: A meta‐analysis

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2008

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“…a chair, a spoon) (Downing et al, 2001, Moro et al, 2008, Urgesi et al, 2004Peeen and Downing 2005). However many recent studies suggest EBA relation with more cognitive functions and frontal sensorimotor regions (Astafiev et al, 2004;Helmich et al, 2007;David et al, 2007). Recent studies have shown functional connectivity of EBA with higher cortical areas such as the PMC and posterior parietal cortex (PPC) during different cognitive tasks, such as mental hand rotation (Helmich et al, 2007) or self-other attribution (David et al, 2007).…”

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Extrastriate body area underlies aesthetic evaluation of body stimuli

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This is the accepted version of the paper.This version of the publication may differ from the final published version. Permanent repository link AbstractHumans appear to be the only animals to have developed the practice and culture of art. This practice presumably relies on special processing circuits within the human brain associated with a distinct subjective experience, termed aesthetic experience, and preferentially evoked by artistic stimuli. We assume that positive or negative aesthetic judgments are an important function of neuroaesthetic circuits. The localization of these circuits in the brain remains unclear, though neuroimaging studies have suggested several possible neural correlates of aesthetic preference. We applied repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) over candidate brain areas to disrupt aesthetic processing while healthy volunteers made aesthetic preference judgments between pairs of dance postures, or control non-body stimuli. Based on evidence from visual body perception studies, we targeted the ventral premotor cortex (vPMC) and extrastriate body area (EBA), in the left and right hemispheres.rTMS over EBA reduced aesthetic sensitivity for body stimuli relative to rTMS over vPMC, while no such difference was found for non-body stimuli. We interpret our results within the framework of dual routes for visual body processing. rTMS over either EBA or vPMC reduced the contributions of the stimulated area to body processing, leaving processing more reliant on the unaffected route. Disruption of EBA reduces the local processing of the stimuli, and reduced observers' aesthetic sensitivity.Conversely, disruption of the global route via vPMC increased the relative contribution of the local route via EBA, and thus increased aesthetic sensitivity. In this way, we suggest a complementary contribution of both local and global routes to aesthetic processing.

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“…Thus, the patients showed high activity in the right angular gyrus when they experienced being the agent of their actions, whereas this activation in healthy controls is only seen when agency is allocated to another person. The role of this brain region in self and bodily processing is further supported by functional imaging studies in healthy individuals (Astafiev, Stanley, Shulman, & Corbetta, 2004;Bonda, Petrides, Frey, & Evans, 1995;Calvert, Campbell, & Brammer, 2000;Lobel, Kleine, Bihan, Leroy-Willig, & Berthoz, 1998;Uddin, Kaplan, Molnar-Szakacs, Zaidel, & Iacoboni, 2005) and by patients with focal brain lesions (e.g., Apperly, Samson, Chiavarino, & Humphreys, 2004;Scepkowski & Cronin-Golomb, 2003;Semenza, 1988).…”

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Perceptual aberrations impair mental own-body transformations.

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Brugger

2006

Behavioral Neuroscience

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Dysfunctional self and bodily processing have been reported from the schizophrenia spectrum. Here, the authors tested 72 students (40 women) to determine whether performance in a mental own-body transformation task relates to self-rated frequency of spontaneously experienced schizotypal body schema alterations (perceptual aberration). Participants provided speeded left-right decisions concerning the body of a visually depicted human figure (front view vs. back view). For men, reaction times to disembodied perspectives increased with increasing scores on a validated perceptual aberration scale. This finding constitutes behavioral evidence for the clinically postulated association between aberrant bodily experiences during everyday life and aberrant processing in a mental own-body transformation task arguably reflecting mild dysfunction at the temporo-parietal junction.

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Extrastriate body area in human occipital cortex responds to the performance of motor actions

Cited by 547 publications

References 43 publications

Social cognition and the brain: A meta‐analysis

Social cognition and the brain: A meta‐analysis

Extrastriate body area underlies aesthetic evaluation of body stimuli

Perceptual aberrations impair mental own-body transformations.

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