Grasping the Intentions of Others: The Perceived Intentionality of an Action Influences Activity in the Superior Temporal Sulcus during Social Perception

By Kevin A. Pelphrey, James P. Morris, Gregory McCarthy. 2004

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology

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Theory of Mind: A Neural Prediction Problem (2013, positive): “In a more extreme mismatch between behavior and environment, watching an agent twisting empty space next to a gear drives a stronger STS response than the agent twisting the gear (Pelphrey et al., 2004).”
The posterior superior temporal sulcus is sensitive to the outcome of human and non-human goal-directed actions. (2011, background): “Unlike previous studies contrasting goal-directed actions with non-sensical, implausible actions (Pelphrey et al., 2004a; Vander Wyk et al., 2009), all of the actions produced in the current study were clearly goal-directed and therefore consistent with the subject’s expectations.”
The Neural Selection and Integration of Actions and Objects: An fMRI Study (2012, background): “In addition, the STS appear to be involved in understanding the intention of actions performed by others (Pelphrey, Morris, & McCarthy, 2004 ).”
Understanding interpersonal action coordination: an fMRI study (2011, methodology): “Previous imaging studies show that activation in the right pSTS is higher while viewing context-incongruent actions than while viewing context-congruent ones (Pelphrey et al. 2004; Saxe et al. 2004; Vander Wyk et al. 2009).”
Inference or interaction: social cognition without precursors (2008, background): “Other experiments show specific brain areas involved in the perception of intentions and the effect of context (eg, Pelphrey, Morris, and McCarthy 2004 ), and the perception of eye gaze and context (Mosconi et al.”
Separate Coding of Different Gaze Directions in the Superior Temporal Sulcus and Inferior Parietal Lobule (2007, unknown): “Together, these studies suggest that the posterior STS is sensitive to the intentionality of gaze and other biological signals [33] (see also [34] for evidence in the macaque), whereas our current results and cell recording in monkeys implicate the anterior STS in separable coding of different gaze ”
Differential selectivity for dynamic versus static information in face-selective cortical regions (2011, unknown): “These include biological motion perception (Grossman and Blake, 2002; Beauchamp et al., 2003; Pelphrey et al., 2003a, 2003b), the perception of goal directed actions (Saxe et al., 2004; Pelphrey et al., 2004; Brass et al., 2007; Vander Wyk et al., 2009), and body perception (Kontaris et al., 2009).”
What gets the attention of the temporo-parietal junction? An fMRI investigation of attention and theory of mind. (2010, unknown): “Another line of fMRI research on action perception indicates activity in the right pSTS/TPJ for incorrect goal-directed actions versus correct goaldirected actions (Pelphrey et al., 2004), and incorrect versus correct predictions about the weight of an object (Grezes et al.”
The reorienting system of the human brain: from environment to theory of mind. (2008, unknown): “Mutual gaze enhances the activation (Pelphrey et al., 2004).”
Investigating action understanding: inferential processes versus action simulation. (2007, result): “Such mechanisms have been consistently related to regions along the superior temporal sulcus (STS), the temporoparietal junction (TPJ), theanterior frontomediancortex, and the posterior cingulate cortex [16–19], which are brain areas lacking mirror properties.”
Mechanisms of social cognition. (2012, background): “Monitoring own actions (Miele et al. 2011) Monitoring others’ actions (Pelphrey et al. 2004, Saxe et al. 2004) Monitoring others’ trustworthiness (Behrens et al. 2008) Monitoring others’ generosity (Cooper et al. 2010) Monitoring influence on others (Hampton et al. 2008) 4.”
The neural dynamics of updating person impressions. (2013, background): “…the IPL has also been associated with a range of social cognitive functions, including gaze processing (Wicker et al., 1998; Pelphrey et al., 2003b; Pelphrey et al., 2004b; Calder et al., 2007), imitation (Iacoboni et al., 1999; Decety et al., 2002; Leslie et al., 2004), action perception in the…”
Understanding others' actions and goals by mirror and mentalizing systems: A meta-analysis (2009, unknown): “However, studies that controlled the amount of eye movement and head position (Pelphrey et al., 2004b) suggest that gaze directed to the observer is associated with the most processing as it reflects mutual attention (George and Conty, 2008).”
Is adolescence a sensitive period for sociocultural processing? (2014, background): “…and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies consistently report the involvement of the pSTS in the perception of biological motion and eye gaze (Puce & Perrett 2003) and in grasping the intentionality and appropriateness of biological motion (Pelphrey et al. 2004).”