Visual analysis of body movements by neurones in the temporal cortex of the macaque monkey: A preliminary report

Perrett, David I.; Smith, Pamela Alethea; Mistlin, A. J.; Chitty, A.J.; Head, Austin; Potter, Douglas D.; Broennimann, R.; Milner, A. David; Jeeves, M. A.

doi:10.1016/0166-4328(85)90089-0

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“…Increased rCBF in the superior temporal and inferior frontal regions during familiar (vs. novel) gesture production suggests that the output praxicon houses the codes representing the physical attributes of the gestures (i.e., their shape and kinetic parameters) in a distributed bilateral temporal and frontal network. The superior temporal sulcus (STS) is principally known for its complex sensory properties and the presence of a large number of neurons responding to the observation of various biological actions in monkeys [Perrett et al, 1985[Perrett et al, , 1989 and humans [Beauchamp et al, 2002;Bonda et al, 1996b;Grossman et al, 2000]. It is also activated by static images of the face and body, suggesting that it is sensitive to implied motion and more generally to stimuli that signal the actions of another individual [for reviews see Allison et al, 2000;Carey et al, 1997].…”

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Imaging a cognitive model of apraxia: The neural substrate of gesture‐specific cognitive processes

Peigneux

Linden

Garraux

et al. 2004

Human Brain Mapping

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Abstract:The present study aimed to ascertain the neuroanatomical basis of an influential neuropsychological model for upper limb apraxia [Rothi LJ, et al. The Neuropsychology of Action. 1997. Hove, UK: Psychology Press]. Regional cerebral blood flow was measured in healthy volunteers using H 2 15O PET during performance of four tasks commonly used for testing upper limb apraxia, i.e., pantomime of familiar gestures on verbal command, imitation of familiar gestures, imitation of novel gestures, and an action-semantic task that consisted in matching objects for functional use. We also re-analysed data from a previous PET study in which we investigated the neural basis of the visual analysis of gestures. First, we found that two sets of discrete brain areas are predominantly engaged in the imitation of familiar and novel gestures, respectively. Segregated brain activation for novel gesture imitation concur with neuropsychological reports to support the hypothesis that knowledge about the organization of the human body mediates the transition from visual perception to motor execution when imitating novel gestures [Goldenberg Neuropsychologia 1995;33:63-72]. Second, conjunction analyses revealed distinctive neural bases for most of the gesture-specific cognitive processes proposed in this cognitive model of upper limb apraxia. However, a functional analysis of brain imaging data suggested that one single memory store may be used for "to-be-perceived" and "to-be-produced" gestural representations, departing from Rothi et al.'s proposal. Based on the above considerations, we suggest and discuss a revised model for upper limb apraxia that might best account for both brain imaging findings and neuropsychological dissociations reported in the apraxia literature.

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Section: Output Praxicon and Gestural Representationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Imaging a cognitive model of apraxia: The neural substrate of gesture‐specific cognitive processes

Peigneux

Linden

Garraux

et al. 2004

Human Brain Mapping

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“…Electrophysiological evidence from single unit recordings on monkeys demonstrates that neocortical cells in these animals are sensitive to still photographs of their own species' face (Bruce et al 1981;Gross et al 1972;Perrett et al 1982). Moreover,`face cell' studies in rhesus macaques indicate that neocortical cells respond selectively to head orientation, gaze direction, face identity and certain facial displays (Perrett et al 1985;Perrett et al 1987;Hasselmo et al1986). …”

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Visual and socio–cognitive information processing in primate brain evolution

Joffe

Dunbar

1997

Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B

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Social group size has been shown to correlate with neocortex size in primates. Here we use comparative analyses to show that social group size is independently correlated with the size of non-V1 neocortical areas, but not with other more proximate components of the visual system or with brain systems associated with emotional cueing (e.g. the amygdala).We argue that visual brain components serve as a social information`input device' for socio-visual stimuli such as facial expressions, bodily gestures and visual status markers, while the non-visual neocortex serves as a`processing device' whereby these social cues are encoded, interpreted and associated with stored information. However, the second appears to have greater overall importance because the size of the V1 visual area appears to reach an asymptotic size beyond which visual acuity and pattern recognition may not improve signi¢cantly. This is especially true of the great ape clade (including humans), that is known to use more sophisticated social cognitive strategies.

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“…It is also important when decoding facial expression to retain some information about the head direction of the face stimulus being seen relative to the observer, for this is very important in determining whether a threat is being made in your direction. The presence of view-dependent, head and body gesture , and eye gaze (Perrett et al 1985b), representations in some of these cortical regions where face expression is represented is consistent with this requirement. In contrast, the TE areas (more ventral, mainly in the macaque inferior temporal gyrus), in which neurons tuned to face identity ) and with view-independent responses ) are more likely to be found, may be more related to a view-invariant representation of identity.…”

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“…A further way in which some of these neurons in the cortex in the superior temporal sulcus may be involved in social interactions is that some of them respond to gestures, for example, to a face undergoing ventral fl exion, as described above and by Perrett et al (1985b). The interpretation of these neurons as being useful for social interactions is that in some cases these neurons respond not only to ventral head fl exion, but also to the eyes lowering and the eyelids closing ).…”

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Invariant Representations of Objects in Natural Scenes in the Temporal Cortex Visual Areas

Rolls

2007

Representation and Brain

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Visual analysis of body movements by neurones in the temporal cortex of the macaque monkey: A preliminary report

Cited by 297 publications

References 18 publications

Imaging a cognitive model of apraxia: The neural substrate of gesture‐specific cognitive processes

Imaging a cognitive model of apraxia: The neural substrate of gesture‐specific cognitive processes

Visual and socio–cognitive information processing in primate brain evolution

Invariant Representations of Objects in Natural Scenes in the Temporal Cortex Visual Areas

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