Extrastriate body area in human occipital cortex responds to the performance of motor actions

By Serguei V. Astafiev, Christine M. Stanley, Gordon L. Shulman, Maurizio Corbetta. Nature Neuroscience, 2004

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology

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Perception of human motion. (2007, background): “A recent fMRI study found that the EBA also responds to self-produced body movements, even if the actor cannot see the movements of his/her limbs (Astafiev et al. 2004).”
Neural reflections of meaning in gesture, language, and action (2009, background): “The inferior temporal regions overlap with or are in the vicinity of earlier findings of extrastriate body area (EBA) and human motion area MT, which have been found to be sensitive to the observation of the human body (Downing et al. 2001; Astafiev et al. 2004; Peelen et al. 2006).”
Social cognition and the brain: A meta‐analysis (2009, background): “, of hand and foot) can also involve the EBA [Astafiev et al., 2004; Jeannerod, 2004]; More importantly, human motions such as body, gaze,”
Towards the neurobiology of emotional body language (2006, neutral): “Both the fusiform body area 49 and the EBA are sensitive to actions shown by the body 50 .”
Human cortical representations for reaching: Mirror neurons for execution, observation, and imagery (2007, background): “In addition to MT+, the activation in the middle occipital gyrus and surrounding sulci may include the extrastriate body area, which has been shown to respond to limb movements in the absence of visual input as well as to images of body parts (Astafiev et al., 2004).”
Neural circuits involved in imitation and perspective-taking (2006, background): “Even though exact localization is not possible, it is likely that the activation reported in this study lies within EBA, based on the knowledge provided by a series of studies examining this region (Downing et al., 2001; Astafiev et al., 2004).”
Neural systems underlying observation of humanly impossible movements: an FMRI study. (2005, background): “A recent fMRI study demonstrates that neural activity in EBA is modulated by actual or imagined movements of hands but not eyes ( Astafiev et al., 2004 ).”