Brain Areas Involved in Perception of Biological Motion

Grossman, Emily D.; Donnelly, Michael; Price, Ronald R.; Pickens, David R.; Morgan, Victoria L.; Neighbor, G.; Blake, Randolph

doi:10.1162/089892900562417

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“…This might suggest why our left hemipshere patient presented a more severe deficit than the right hemisphere patients. Neurophysiological (Oram & Perrett, 1994) and fMRI studies (Grossman et al, 2000) all point to the existence of a mechanism in the brain specialized for perception of biological motion which most likely lies outside the classical motion routes that includes V5 area and, our patients' performance is in agreement with this claim.…”

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Perception of biological motion in parietal patients

2003

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confidence: 81%

Perception of biological motion in parietal patients

2003

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“…Invariant patterns are those that provide reliable and consistent information about conditions that have covaried with survival or reproductive outcomes during the species' evolutionary history. Examples include motion patterns generated by conspecifics (e.g., Blake, 1993;Grossman et al, 2000), shape and coloration of fruit for fruit-eating species (Barton et al, 1995), and acoustical patterns generated by human vocalizations (Doupe & Kuhl, 1999), among many others. We predict that an evolved sensitivity to variant information patterns occurs when discriminations within broader, invariant categories result in survival or reproductive advantages.…”

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confidence: 99%

Brain and cognitive evolution: Forms of modularity and functions of mind.

Geary¹,

Huffman²

2002

Psychological Bulletin

207

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Genetic and neurobiological research is reviewed as related to controversy over the extent to which neocortical organization and associated cognitive functions are genetically constrained or emerge through patterns of developmental experience. An evolutionary framework that accommodates genetic constraint and experiential modification of brain organization and cognitive function is then proposed. The authors argue that 4 forms of modularity and 3 forms of neural and cognitive plasticity define the relation between genetic constraint and the influence of developmental experience. For humans, the result is the ontogenetic emergence of functional modules in the domains of folk psychology, folk biology, and folk physics. The authors present a taxonomy of these modules and review associated research relating to brain and cognitive plasticity in these domains.For several millennia, scholars have debated whether human traits largely result from our biological nature or are a reflection of nurture, specifically our developmental experiences. The debate continues to this day and has recently pervaded the cognitive neurosciences, at least with respect to theoretical models of brain and cognitive evolution (Elman et al

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“…Regions in the dorsal stream corresponding to areas MT and MST in the monkey, dubbed "the MT complex" (MT +), selectively represent features of object and observer movement (Tootell, et al, 1995). Adjacent areas in the posterior superior temporal sulcus (pSTS) are selectively activated by nonrigid biological motion (Grossman, et al, 2000;Beauchamp, Lee, Haxby, & Martin, 2003). These perceptual processing streams are oriented in time such that they not only represent the current state of the world, but represent predictions about what is likely to happen a short time later.…”

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Event perception: A mind-brain perspective.

Zacks¹,

Speer²,

Swallow³

et al. 2007

Psychological Bulletin

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People perceive and conceive of activity in terms of discrete events. Here we propose a theory according to which the perception of boundaries between events arises from ongoing perceptual processing and regulates attention and memory. Perceptual systems continuously make predictions about what will happen next. When transient errors in predictions arise, an event boundary is perceived. According to the theory, the perception of events depends on both sensory cues and knowledge structures that represent previously learned information about event parts and inferences about actors' goals and plans. Neurological and neurophysiological data suggest that representations of events may be implemented by structures in the lateral prefrontal cortex and that perceptual prediction error is calculated and evaluated by a processing pathway including the anterior cingulate cortex and subcortical neuromodulatory systems.

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Brain Areas Involved in Perception of Biological Motion

Cited by 820 publications

References 53 publications

Perception of biological motion in parietal patients

Perception of biological motion in parietal patients

Brain and cognitive evolution: Forms of modularity and functions of mind.

Event perception: A mind-brain perspective.

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