Movement and Mind: A Functional Imaging Study of Perception and Interpretation of Complex Intentional Movement Patterns

Castelli, Fulvia; Happé, Francesca; Frith, Uta; Frith, Chris

doi:10.1006/nimg.2000.0612

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“…Finally, it is possible that the absence of DMPFC activation in the scrambled condition reflects a lack of perspective-taking or theory of mind processing. Numerous studies have observed DMPFC activation during tasks that require consideration of agents' beliefs, feelings or intentions (Castelli et al, 2000;Fletcher et al, 1995;Vogeley et al, 2001). In the context of discourse comprehension, Mason and Just (2006) have proposed that DMPFC serves as a "protagonist's perspective" network involved in decoding agents' intentions or goals.…”

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Neural substrates of narrative comprehension and memory

2008

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When reading a narrative, comprehension and retention of information benefit considerably from the use of situation models -coherent representations of the characters, locations, and activities described in the text. Here we used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to explore the neural mechanisms supporting situation model processing. Participants read blocks of sentences that were either unrelated to one another or formed coherent narratives. A timecourse-based approach was used to identify regions that differentiated narrative-level comprehension from sentence-level comprehension. Most brain regions that showed modulation of activation during narrative-level comprehension were also modulated to a lesser extent during sentence-level comprehension, suggesting a shared reliance on general coherence-building mechanisms. However, tentative evidence was found for narrativespecific activation in dorsomedial prefrontal cortex. Additional analyses identified spatiotemporally distinct neural contributions to situation model processing, with posterior parietal regions supporting situation model construction and frontotemporal regions supporting situation model maintenance. Finally, a set of subsequent memory analyses demonstrated that the boost in comprehension and memory performance observed for coherent materials was attributable to the use of integrative situation models rather than lower-level differences in sentence-level or word-level encoding. These results clarify the functional contributions of distinct brain systems to situation model processing and their mapping onto existing psychological models of narrative comprehension.

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“…circles and triangles) can prompt normal adults to ascribe emotions and social intentions to the moving stimuli, which they describe using intentional verbs such 'chase', 'corner', 'attack', 'caress' or 'comfort' [33,34]. There is also evidence that 3-4-year-old toddlers respond like adults to the perception of Heider and Simmel type of stimuli [35].…”

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“…By contrast, geometrical stimuli form a homogeneous class of entities. Seeing geometrical stimuli move in relation to one another causes in humans a 'perceptual social illusion', that is, an illusion of social interactions guided by social intentions [33][34][35][36]. But given that the motion of geometrical stimuli is non-biological, it follows that the process whereby social intentions are represented and ascribed cannot be by matching the observed motions onto one's own motor repertoire, that is, by simulation in the narrow sense.…”

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“…On the other hand, much evidence from single cell recordings in the brain of macaque monkeys and from brain imaging in human adults suggests the existence of a purely perceptual system of 'social perception' [15,24] that can be tricked by perceptual illusions (the hallmark of perceptual systems). It involves the cooperation between at least three brain areas: the Superior Temporal Sulcus (STS), the amygdala and the orbito-frontal cortex [15,19,24,34,[38][39][40][41]. Unlike neurons in F5 and in the inferior parietal lobule, which fire in response to the perception of object-oriented actions, many neurons in STS respond to the perception of others' actions directed towards conspecifics: they lack motor properties [2,42] and they do not respond to the perception of one's own movements [43,44].…”

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The motor theory of social cognition: a critique

Jacob

Jeannerod

2005

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

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“…Grossman et al (2005) suggested that normal STS functioning is required for perception of biological motion, as repeated transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) disrupted cortical activity in the posterior STS and reduced perceptual sensitivity to point-light animations in healthy adults [36]. The STS has also been implicated in social cognition and attribution of mental states and intentions [40][41][42][43][44]. In one study, the STS was activated by simple geometric shapes, which had no resemblance to faces or body parts except that their patterns of motion conveyed ''intention'' [43].…”

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Autism and the development of face processing

Golarai

Grill-Spector

Reiss

2006

Clinical Neuroscience Research

157

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Autism is a pervasive developmental condition, characterized by impairments in non-verbal communication, social relationships and stereotypical patterns of behavior. A large body of evidence suggests that several aspects of face processing are impaired in autism, including anomalies in gaze processing, memory for facial identity and recognition of facial expressions of emotion. In search of neural markers of anomalous face processing in autism, much interest has focused on a network of brain regions that are implicated in social cognition and face processing. In this review, we will focus on three such regions, namely the STS for its role in processing gaze and facial movements, the FFA in face detection and identification and the amygdala in processing facial expressions of emotion. Much evidence suggests that a better understanding of the normal development of these specialized regions is essential for discovering the neural bases of face processing anomalies in autism. Thus, we will also examine the available literature on the normal development of face processing. Key unknowns in this research area are the neuro-developmental processes, the role of experience and the interactions among components of the face processing system in shaping each of the specialized regions for processing faces during normal development and in autism. Published by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of Association for Research in Nervous and Mental Disease.

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Movement and Mind: A Functional Imaging Study of Perception and Interpretation of Complex Intentional Movement Patterns

Cited by 1,151 publications

References 40 publications

Neural substrates of narrative comprehension and memory

Neural substrates of narrative comprehension and memory

The motor theory of social cognition: a critique

Autism and the development of face processing

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