Modulation of the face- and body-selective visual regions by the motion and emotion of point-light face and body stimuli

Abstract

(2012) 'Modulation of the face-and body-selective visual regions by the motion and emotion of point-light face and body stimuli.', Neuroimage., 59 (2). pp. 1700-1712.Further information on publisher's website:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage. 2011.08.073 Publisher's copyright statement: NOTICE: this is the author's version of a work that was accepted for publication in NeuroImage. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A denitive version was subsequently published in NeuroImage, 59/2, 2012NeuroImage, 59/2, , 10.1016NeuroImage, 59/2, /j.neuroimage.2011 Additional information: Use policyThe full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-prot purposes provided that:• a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in DRO • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders.Please consult the full DRO policy for further details. This latter finding strongly constrains the claim that emotionally expressive movements modulate precisely those neuronal populations that code for the viewed stimulus category.

Age-congruency and contact effects in body expression recognition from point-light displays (PLD)

“…It has been suggested, for example, that compared to facial expressions, body posture and movement convey more important information about action intentions of others and prepare the perceiver for adaptive reactions (De Gelder et al, 2004). Such a proposal is consistent with converging evidence from fMRI and MEG revealing category-specific activation for bodies and faces (Meeren et al, 2008; Atkinson, Vuong & Smithson, 2012). Moreover, findings indicate that only emotional bodies, but not neutral bodies or emotional faces, activate cortical and subcortical motor related structures such as IFG, caudate and putamen (De Gelder et al, 2004; Van de Riet, Grèzes & de Gelder, 2009), consistent with the idea that body expressions activate action-related neural structures.…”

Brain activity correlates with emotional perception induced by dynamic avatars

“…Studies using static images found that emotional compared to neutral body expressions show enhanced activity in the fusiform face area (FFA), the amygdala and the temporal pole (Grezes et al, 2007;Hadjikhani and de Gelder, 2003;Pichon et al, 2008). Studies using naturalistic dynamic videos showed an increased activity in visual body processing areas, such as the extrastriate body area (EBA), and fusiform body area (FBA), as well as the FFA, the temporal parietal junction (TPJ), and the superior temporal sulcus (STS) which is frequently highlighted in biological motion, goal directed action and emotional research (Atkinson et al, 2012;Grezes et al, 2007;Kret et al, 2011;Pichon et al, 2008;Schneider et al, 2014;Sinke et al, 2010). They also showed increased brain activity in regions that are linked to autonomic regulation -such as the hypothalamus, the ventro-medial prefrontal cortex, and the premotor cortex (Grezes et al, 2007;Pichon et al, 2008).…”

Discrimination of fearful and happy body postures in 8-month-old infants: an event-related potential study

“…Specifically, can infants discriminate between emotional body expressions in the absence of motion cues like adults can (Atkinson et al, 2004; de Gelder et al, 2004; Stekelenburg and de Gelder, 2004; Atkinson et al, 2012)? Such an extension of prior work is critical because (a) it provides a developmental perspective on emotional body expression processing by allowing for a comparison between prior ERP findings with adults (Stekelenburg and de Gelder, 2004; van Heijnsbergen et al, 2007) and the current infant data; and (b) it establishes a link to the literature on facial expression processing since most prior ERP work on infants’ processing of emotional facial expressions has been focused on static but not dynamic facial expressions (Missana et al, 2014b).…”