A deficit in discriminating gaze direction in a case with right superior temporal gyrus lesion

Akiyama, Tomoko; Kato, Masaaki; Muramatsu, Taro; Saito, Fumie; Nakachi, Ryoko; Kashima, Haruo

doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2005.05.018

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“…This is an interesting finding, as the STG region has been strongly implicated in eye-gaze processing, 33 and lesions in this region produce important difficulties in gaze contact. 69 This result seems to fit nicely with the pattern of gaze avoidance typical of patients with SAD 8 as well as with the increased attention and fixation to…”

Section: Common Finding: the Role Of Eye Gazesupporting

confidence: 74%

Facial emotion processing in patients with social anxiety disorder and Williams–Beuren syndrome: an fMRI study

Binelli

Muñiz

Subirà

et al. 2016

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Section: Common Finding: the Role Of Eye Gazesupporting

confidence: 74%

Facial emotion processing in patients with social anxiety disorder and Williams–Beuren syndrome: an fMRI study

Binelli

Muñiz

Subirà

et al. 2016

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“…Previous neuroscientific studies have suggested that the left STG is involved in language comprehension (Hécaen and Albert, 1978) and spoken-word recognition (Howard et al, 1992). The right STG has been implicated in the processing of nonverbal sound discrimination, recognition, and comprehension (McGlone and Young, 1992), processing of linguistic context (Kircher et al, 2001), irony and metaphor comprehension (Eviatar and Just, 2006), and gaze recognition (Akiyama et al, 2006). Both the left and right STG have been shown to be involved in a number of verbal processes (Binder et al, 1994;Herholz et al, 1994;McGuire et al, 1996), and the commonality of the bilateral STG as well as laterality of STG may be important.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In both the preexperiment and postexperiments, we measured the Full-Scale intelligence quotient (FSIQ) using the Japanese version of the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-Third Edition (WAIS-III) for subjects aged 16 years or older or the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Third Edition (WISC-III) for subjects younger than 16 years (Azuma et al, 1998). The tests were administered by trained examiners (Fujita et al, 2006). We calculated the Verbal Comprehension subscore along with the FSIQ, Perceptual Organization subscore, Working Memory subscore, and Processing Speed subscore for each subject from their WAIS/WISC scores.…”

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The Impact of Parent–Child Interaction on Brain Structures: Cross-sectional and Longitudinal Analyses

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There is a vast amount of evidence from psychological studies that the amount of parent-child interaction affects the development of children's verbal skills and knowledge. However, despite the vast amount of literature, brain structural development associated with the amount of parent-child interaction has never been investigated. In the present human study, we used voxel-based morphometry to measure regional gray matter density (rGMD) and examined cross-sectional correlations between the amount of time spent with parents and rGMD among 127 boys and 135 girls. We also assessed correlations between the amount of time spent with parents and longitudinal changes that occurred a few years later among 106 boys and 102 girls. After correcting for confounding factors, we found negative effects of spending time with parents on rGMD in areas in the bilateral superior temporal gyrus (STG) via cross-sectional analyses as well as in the contingent areas of the right STG. We also confirmed positive effects of spending time with parents on the Verbal Comprehension score in cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses. rGMD in partly overlapping or contingent areas of the right STG was negatively correlated with age and the Verbal Comprehension score in cross-sectional analyses. Subsequent analyses revealed verbal parent-child interactions have similar effects on Verbal Comprehension scores and rGMD in the right STG in both cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses. These findings indicate that parent-child interactions affect the right STG, which may be associated with verbal skills.

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“…The right STG (which showed the most significant difference in this comparison) has not been commonly included among the ToM regions. However, a few recent imaging studies have implicated the right STG area for some functions that may be precursors for ToM; i.e., empathy mapping through facial and hand-gesture imitations (Leslie, Johnson-Frey, & Grafton, 2004) and reading eye-gaze directions (Akiyama et al, 2006). Thus, the greater activity in this area during the ToM condition for children than adults may represent these precursor abilities of ToM during the course of development.…”

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confidence: 99%

Children's and adults’ neural bases of verbal and nonverbal ‘theory of mind’

2007

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Theory of mind (ToM) -our ability to predict behaviors of others in terms of their underlying intentions -has been examined through verbal and nonverbal false-belief (FB) tasks. Previous brain imaging studies of ToM in adults have implicated medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) and temporoparietal junction (TPJ) for adults' ToM ability. To examine age and modality related differences and similarities in neural correlates of ToM, we tested 16 adults (18-40 years-old) and 12 children (8-12 years-old) with verbal (story) and nonverbal (cartoon) FB tasks, using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). Both age groups showed significant activity in the TPJ bilaterally and right inferior parietal lobule (IPL) in a modality-independent manner, indicating that these areas are important for ToM during both adulthood and childhood, regardless of modality. We also found significant agerelated differences in the ToM condition-specific activity for the story and cartoon tasks in the left inferior frontal gyrus (IFG) and left TPJ. These results suggest that depending on the modality adults may utilize different brain regions from children in understanding ToM.

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A deficit in discriminating gaze direction in a case with right superior temporal gyrus lesion

Cited by 66 publications

References 41 publications

Facial emotion processing in patients with social anxiety disorder and Williams–Beuren syndrome: an fMRI study

Facial emotion processing in patients with social anxiety disorder and Williams–Beuren syndrome: an fMRI study

The Impact of Parent–Child Interaction on Brain Structures: Cross-sectional and Longitudinal Analyses

Children's and adults’ neural bases of verbal and nonverbal ‘theory of mind’

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