Motion in the mind's eye: Comparing mental and visual rotation

Shelton, Amy L.; Pippitt, Holly A.

doi:10.3758/cabn.6.4.323

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“…Neuroimaging studies of mental rotation have generally found that rotation of three dimensional figures engages occipital and parietal regions with numerous studies supporting the role of the superior parietal lobule in the performance of mental rotation [33,34]. Gender differences have been reported suggesting that women engage or recruit additional brain regions such as the frontal lobes, however the parietal region appears to be reliably activated by both genders [17,35,36].…”

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Changes in neuronal activation patterns in response to androgen deprivation therapy: a pilot study

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BackgroundA common treatment option for men with prostate cancer is androgen deprivation therapy (ADT). However, men undergoing ADT may experience physical side effects, changes in quality of life and sometimes psychiatric and cognitive side effects.MethodsIn this study, hormone naïve patients without evidence of metastases with a rising PSA were treated with nine months of ADT. Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) of the brain during three visuospatial tasks was performed at baseline prior to treatment and after nine months of ADT in five subjects. Seven healthy control patients, underwent neuroimaging at the same time intervals.ResultsADT patients showed reduced, task-related BOLD-fMRI activation during treatment that was not observed in control subjects. Reduction in activation in right parietal-occipital regions from baseline was observed during recall of the spatial location of objects and mental rotation.ConclusionsFindings, while preliminary, suggest that ADT reduces task-related neural activation in brain regions that are involved in mental rotation and accurate recall of spatial information.

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Changes in neuronal activation patterns in response to androgen deprivation therapy: a pilot study

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“…In the Shelton and Pippitt [11] study, the right inferior parietal cortex (Brodmann area [BA] 40) and the right posterior cingulate cortex (BA 31) exhibited the same level of activation in response to the ground-level and aerial-with-turns movies, which was greater than the level of activation in response to the aerial movie. Activation in the inferior parietal cortex indicates that the ground-level and aerial-with-turns movies indeed required participants to mentally rotate the views of an environment, as there is accumulating evidence that this area is involved in mental rotation [39][40][41][42]. Previous studies also showed that posterior cingulate neurons are responsive to navigators' headings in a large-scale environment (those in BA 31 [43]) and considered to take part in translating spatial information between egocentric and allocentric frames of reference (those in BA 29 and 30; i.e., the retrosplenial cortex [38,[44][45][46]).…”

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Effects of Orientation Change during Environmental Learning on Age-Related Difference in Spatial Memory

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It has been suggested that older adults suffer a greater degree of decline in environmental learning when navigating in an environment than when reading a map of the environment.However, the two types of spatial learning differ not only in perspectives (i.e., navigation is done with a ground-level perspective; a map is read from an aerial perspective) but also in orientations (i.e., orientations vary during navigation; spatial information is drawn from a single orientation in a map), making it unclear which factor critically affects older adults' spatial learning. The present study addressed this issue by having younger and older participants learn the layout of a large-scale environment through an aerial movie that contained changes in orientations from which the environment was depicted. Results showed that older participants' memories for the environmental layout were as distorted as those created through a ground-level movie (which involved the same orientation changes), whereas they formed more accurate memories through another aerial movie in which an orientation was fixed. By contrast, younger participants learned the environment equally well from the three movies. Taken together, these findings suggest that there is age-related alteration specifically in the ability to process multiple orientations of an environment while encoding its layout in memory. It is inferred that this alteration stems from functional deterioration of the medial temporal lobe, and possibly that of posterior cingulate areas as well (e.g., the retrosplenial cortex), in late adulthood.

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“…Although V5/MT is classically observed during visual presentation of motion (Tootell et al, 1995), V5/MT activity has been shown to occur in the absence of moving stimuli as well; for example when participants perceive motion in illusions, when they imagine moving stimuli (Goebel et al, 1998;Shelton and Pippitt, 2006;Slotnick et al, 2005) or when they access knowledge of action words (Kable et al, 2002). Therefore the distributed pattern in V5/MT could imply that voluntary non-actions involve a different kind of motion representation compared to simply not doing anything.…”

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Dissociating mental states related to doing nothing by means of fMRI pattern classification

2010

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Most juridical systems recognize intentional non-actions - the failure to render assistance - as intentional acts by regarding them as in principle culpable. This raises the fundamental question whether intentional non-actions can be distinguished from simply not doing anything. Classical GLM analysis on functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data reveals that not doing anything is associated with resting state brain areas whereas intentionally non-acting is associated with brain activity in left inferior parietal lobe and left dorsal premotor cortex. By means of pattern classification we quantify the accuracy with which we can distinguish these two mental states on the basis of brain activity. In order to identify brain regions that harbour a distributed, overlapping representation of voluntary non-actions and the decision not to act we performed pattern classification on brain areas that did not appear in the GLM contrasts. The prediction rate is not reduced and we show that the prediction relies mostly on brain areas that have been associated with action production and motor imagery as supplementary motor area, right inferior frontal gyrus and right middle temporal area (V5/MT). Hence our data support the implicit assumption of legal practice that voluntary non-action shares important features with overt voluntary action.

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Motion in the mind's eye: Comparing mental and visual rotation

Cited by 18 publications

References 52 publications

Changes in neuronal activation patterns in response to androgen deprivation therapy: a pilot study

Changes in neuronal activation patterns in response to androgen deprivation therapy: a pilot study

Effects of Orientation Change during Environmental Learning on Age-Related Difference in Spatial Memory

Dissociating mental states related to doing nothing by means of fMRI pattern classification

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