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Brain regions involved in human movement perception: A quantitative voxel‐based meta‐analysis

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Grosbras, Marie‐Hélène, Beaton, Susan, Eickhoff, Simon B.·2012·Human Brain Mapping

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Face, hands, and body movements are powerful signals essential for social interactions. In the last 2 decades, a large number of brain imaging studies have explored the neural correlates of the perception of these signals. Formal synthesis is crucially needed, however, to extract the key circuits involved in human motion perception across the variety of paradigms and stimuli that have been used. Here, we used the activation likelihood estimation (ALE) meta‐analysis approach with random effect analysis. We performed meta‐analyses on three classes of biological motion: movement of the whole body, hands, and face. Additional analyses of studies of static faces or body stimuli and sub‐analyses grouping experiments as a function of their control stimuli or task employed allowed us to identify main effects of movements and forms perception, as well as effects of task demand. In addition to specific features, all conditions showed convergence in occipito‐temporal and fronto‐parietal regions, but with different peak location and extent. The conjunction of the three ALE maps revealed convergence in all categories in a region of the right posterior superior temporal sulcus as well as in a bilateral region at the junction between middle temporal and lateral occipital gyri. Activation in these regions was not a function of attentional demand and was significant also when controlling for non‐specific motion perception. This quantitative synthesis points towards a special role for posterior superior temporal sulcus for integrating human movement percept, and supports a specific representation for body parts in middle temporal, fusiform, precentral, and parietal areas. Hum Brain Mapp, 2012. © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

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  • A recent meta-analysis of fMRI data on action observation revealed that observation of hand movements produces responses in both premotor and parietal cortex, while face and body movements recruit premotor and parietal cortex, respectively.

    “a recent meta-analysis of fMRI data on action observation revealed that observation of hand movements produces responses in both premotor and parietal cortex, while face and body movements recruit premotor and parietal cortex, respectively”

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Authors
Grosbras, M., Beaton, S., & Eickhoff, S. B.
Affiliations
  • University of Glasgow (GB)
  • Forschungszentrum Jülich (DE)
Venue
Human Brain Mapping
Publisher
Wiley
Published
2011-03-09
Volume
33
Issue
2
Pages
431-454
ISSN
  • 1065-9471 (ISSN-L)
  • 1097-0193
OpenAlex
W1995284850
Cited by
284
References
155
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2.46
Type
journal article
Language
en
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  • Human Brain Mapping (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • ENLIGHTEN (Jurnal Bimbingan dan Konseling Islam) (submittedVersion)
  • JuSER (Forschungszentrum Jülich) (submittedVersion)
  • RWTH Publications (RWTH Aachen) (submittedVersion)
Funders
  • Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (IRTG1328)
  • National Institutes of Health (R01-MH074457-01A1, MH074457)
  • Medical Research Council
  • Economic and Social Research Council (ES/E020933/1, RES-060-25-0010)
  • National Institute of Mental Health (R01MH074457)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Action Observation and Synchronization
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Face Recognition and Perception
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Visual perception and processing mechanisms
Keywords
human motion perception, biological motion, posterior superior temporal sulcus, middle temporal gyrus, fusiform gyrus, occipitotemporal cortex, frontoparietal cortex, representation of the body, social cognition, activation likelihood estimation
MeSH terms
Brain, Brain Mapping, Face, Hand, Humans, Motion Perception, Task Performance and Analysis

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