Brain Activity Evoked by the Perception of Human Walking: Controlling for Meaningful Coherent Motion

By Kevin A. Pelphrey, T. Mitchell, Martin J. McKeown, Jeremy H. Goldstein, T. Allison, Gregory McCarthy. 2003

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology

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Theory of Mind: A Neural Prediction Problem (2013, positive): “…sulcus (STS, green, peak voxel [66, −36, 12]) involved in action perception (localized using biomotion relative to scrambled biological motion, Pelphrey et al., 2003); a region in temporo-parietal junction (TPJ, blue, peak voxel [62, −52, 18]) involved in thinking about beliefs and desires…”
Perception of human motion. (2007, background): “STSp is also robustly activated when one views whole-body motions rather than PL sequences (Pelphrey et al. 2003), as well as when one views motion confined to specific limbs or to the eyes, hand, and mouth (Calvert et al. 1997, Grèzes et al. 1998, Puce et al. 1998).”
The posterior superior temporal sulcus is sensitive to the outcome of human and non-human goal-directed actions. (2011, background): “In addition, the movement of the robot in Pelphrey et al. (2003) was clearly self-propelled, which is a well-known cue to animacy (Premack, 1990).”
The reorienting system of the human brain: from environment to theory of mind. (2008, unknown): “Several studies have shown that posterior STS is activated during the perception of gaze shifts (Allison et al., 2000; Pelphrey et al., 2003, 2004).”
Actionness Ranking with Lattice Conditional Ordinal Random Fields (2014, background): “Indeed these intricate visual patterns are complex (and apparently important) enough that we humans have highly specialized parts of our brain dedicated specifically to biological motion perception (the superior temporal sulcus) [25].”
Are there theory of mind regions in the brain? A review of the neuroimaging literature (2009, methodology): “For example, anterior and posterior regions of the STS have been associated with the perception and representation of biological motion [e.g. Allison et al., 2000; Bonda et al., 1996; Grossman et al., 2000; Pelphrey et al., 2003; Peuskens et al., 2005; Thompson et al., 2005; Vaina et al., 2001] and ”
Repetitive TMS over posterior STS disrupts perception of biological motion. (2005, background): “A survey of previous studies indicates the right hemisphere pSTS region to be more active than the left pSTS during biological motion perception (Bonda et al., 1996; Grossman et al., 2000; Pavlova, Lutzenberger, Sokolov, & Birbaumer, 2004; Pelphrey et al., 2003).”
Superior Temporal SulcusIt's My Area: Or Is It? (2008, background): “mated figures (Thompson, Clarke, Stewart, & Puce, 2005; Pelphrey et al., 2003) or point-light displays.”
The neural dynamics of updating person impressions. (2013, background): “…perception critical for social communication, for instance, biological motion (Allison et al., 2000; Vaina et al., 2001; Grossman and Blake, 2002; Pelphrey et al., 2003a; Puce and Perrett, 2003; Pelphrey et al., 2004a; Pelphrey et al., 2006) and facial expressions (static: Haxby et al., 2000;…”
Motor imagery and action observation: cognitive tools for rehabilitation (2007, result): “in line with recent findings of Pelphrey et al. (2003) who reported that the observation of biological motion (a walking human) activated the superior temporal sulcus signifi-”
Exploring the neural correlates of goal-directed action and intention understanding (2011, unknown): “The right panels are graphs of the individual responses in the right pSTS to the three reaching conditions for each character. might not be specific to humans but instead to biological motion (Carter and Pelphrey, 2006; Pelphrey et al., 2003a).”
Differential selectivity for dynamic versus static information in face-selective cortical regions (2011, unknown): “4 D. Pitcher et al. / NeuroImage xxx (2011) xxx–xxx Please cite this article as: Pitcher, D., et al., Differential selectivity for dynamic versus static information in face-selective cortical regions, NeuroImage (2011) , doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.03.”
Grasping the Intentions of Others: The Perceived Intentionality of an Action Influences Activity in the Superior Temporal Sulcus during Social Perception (2004, background): “Prior studies from our laboratory have demonstrated that passive viewing of biological motion (Pelphrey, Mitchell, et al., 2003; Puce et al., 1998) activates the posterior superior temporal sulcus (STS) region.”
A region of right posterior superior temporal sulcus responds to observed intentional actions. (2004, background): “Consistent with this hypothesis for the pSTS-A, Pelphrey et al. (2003) reported that when subjects saw a person look left immediately after the presentation of a grating on the person's right, the response of a region of right pSTS was enhanced and extended , relative to the response of the same…”
The thing that should not be: predictive coding and the uncanny valley in perceiving human and humanoid robot actions (2011, background): “For example, in the human brain, parts of the APS respond to actions and body movements of simple animations (Pelphrey et al., 2003) or to point-light displays (Saygin et al., 2004b).”
Neural correlates of social perception: The posterior superior temporal sulcus is modulated by action rationality, but not animacy (2012, background): “This region responds more strongly to (human) biological motion than motion of inanimate objects (e.g. Grossman et al., 2000; Pelphrey et al., 2003).”