Direction-Sensitive Codes for Observed Head Turns in Human Superior Temporal Sulcus

Carlin, Johan D.; Rowe, James B.; Kriegeskorte, Nikolaus; Thompson, Richard M.; Calder, Andrew J.

doi:10.1093/cercor/bhr061

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“…In our strict categorization, we also excluded two further studies in which there was a possibility that the visual stimulus could evoke representation of motor actions. These were videos of head turns (Carlin, Rowe, Kriegeskorte, Thompson, & Calder, 2012) and photos of hands in rock/paper/scissor pose ( Vickery, Chun, & Lee, 2011). Analyses pertaining to the coding of auditory information included discrimination of the direction of auditory motion, pitch, loudness, and melody.…”

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Coding of Visual, Auditory, Rule, and Response Information in the Brain: 10 Years of Multivoxel Pattern Analysis

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Jackson

Duncan

2016

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

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Abstract■ How is the processing of task information organized in the brain? Many views of brain function emphasize modularity, with different regions specialized for processing different types of information. However, recent accounts also highlight flexibility, pointing especially to the highly consistent pattern of frontoparietal activation across many tasks. Although early insights from functional imaging were based on overall activation levels during different cognitive operations, in the last decade many researchers have used multivoxel pattern analyses to interrogate the representational content of activations, mapping out the brain regions that make particular stimulus, rule, or response distinctions. Here, we drew on 100 searchlight decoding analyses from 57 published papers to characterize the information coded in different brain networks. The outcome was highly structured. Visual, auditory, and motor networks predominantly (but not exclusively) coded visual, auditory, and motor information, respectively. By contrast, the frontoparietal multiple-demand network was characterized by domain generality, coding visual, auditory, motor, and rule information. The contribution of the default mode network and voxels elsewhere was minor. The data suggest a balanced picture of brain organization in which sensory and motor networks are relatively specialized for information in their own domain, whereas a specific frontoparietal network acts as a domain-general "core" with the capacity to code many different aspects of a task. ■

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Coding of Visual, Auditory, Rule, and Response Information in the Brain: 10 Years of Multivoxel Pattern Analysis

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Duncan

2016

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“…Instead, the statistical significance of the decoding accuracy on the group level is of relevance. For this, it is common practice (e.g., Bode and Haynes, 2009;Carlin et al, 2012;Kahnt et al, 2010) to estimate a group-level statistic by performing a voxel-wise t-test against the theoretical chance level (e.g., an accuracy of 0.5 in a two class paradigm) using the accuracy maps of all subjects. Finally, the multiple testing problem is corrected at the cluster level with family-wise error (FWE) or false-discovery rate (FDR) methods.…”

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Statistical inference and multiple testing correction in classification-based multi-voxel pattern analysis (MVPA): Random permutations and cluster size control

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“…Consequently, humans are extremely sensitive to information about others' emotional states or intentions as provided by cues such as facial expression or body movement. Supporting these abilities, the human temporal cortex contains a number of areas involved in the processing of such social information (1)(2)(3)(4)(5). An area that has received particular emphasis in the study of human social abilities is located at the posterior end of the superior temporal sulcus (STS), at the junction with the parietal cortex.…”

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Connectivity profiles reveal the relationship between brain areas for social cognition in human and monkey temporoparietal cortex

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Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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The human ability to infer the thoughts and beliefs of others, often referred to as "theory of mind," as well as the predisposition to even consider others, are associated with activity in the temporoparietal junction (TPJ) area. Unlike the case of most human brain areas, we have little sense of whether or how TPJ is related to brain areas in other nonhuman primates. It is not possible to address this question by looking for similar task-related activations in nonhuman primates because there is no evidence that nonhuman primates engage in theory-of-mind tasks in the same manner as humans. Here, instead, we explore the relationship by searching for areas in the macaque brain that interact with other macaque brain regions in the same manner as human TPJ interacts with other human brain regions. In other words, we look for brain regions with similar positions within a distributed neural circuit in the two species. We exploited the fact that human TPJ has a unique functional connectivity profile with cortical areas with known homologs in the macaque. For each voxel in the macaque temporal and parietal cortex we evaluated the similarity of its functional connectivity profile to that of human TPJ. We found that areas in the middle part of the superior temporal cortex, often associated with the processing of faces and other social stimuli, have the most similar connectivity profile. These results suggest that macaque face processing areas and human mentalizing areas might have a similar precursor.comparative anatomy | cooperation | comparative cognition F or a social species like our own, evolutionary success necessitates the ability to navigate a world full of conspecifics. Consequently, humans are extremely sensitive to information about others' emotional states or intentions as provided by cues such as facial expression or body movement. Supporting these abilities, the human temporal cortex contains a number of areas involved in the processing of such social information (1-5). An area that has received particular emphasis in the study of human social abilities is located at the posterior end of the superior temporal sulcus (STS), at the junction with the parietal cortex. This temporoparietal junction (TPJ) area has been implicated in the human ability to attribute belief states to others, so-called "mentalizing" or "theory of mind" (ToM). It has been argued that this ability is uniquely human (6) and forms the basis of our distinctive ability to cooperate, leading to culture and ultimately language (7). TPJ is also associated with "social preferences" and the predisposition to take into account the benefit that might accrue to others as well as to oneself when making a decision (8, 9). Such predispositions are present in monkeys but their neural basis is only beginning to be elucidated (10, 11).In trying to establish the evolutionary origin of human social abilities, research into the processing of social information in the macaque temporal cortex has demonstrated the existence of a number of areas responsive to fac...

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Direction-Sensitive Codes for Observed Head Turns in Human Superior Temporal Sulcus

Cited by 36 publications

References 53 publications

Coding of Visual, Auditory, Rule, and Response Information in the Brain: 10 Years of Multivoxel Pattern Analysis

Coding of Visual, Auditory, Rule, and Response Information in the Brain: 10 Years of Multivoxel Pattern Analysis

Statistical inference and multiple testing correction in classification-based multi-voxel pattern analysis (MVPA): Random permutations and cluster size control

Connectivity profiles reveal the relationship between brain areas for social cognition in human and monkey temporoparietal cortex

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