The DOI matches its Crossref record; 50 of the 50 references it cites were found in a registry or an index.
Brain Areas Involved in Perception of Biological Motion
Abstract
These experiments use functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to reveal neural activity uniquely associated with perception of biological motion. We isolated brain areas activated during the viewing of point-light figures, then compared those areas to regions known to be involved in coherent-motion perception and kinetic-boundary perception. Coherent motion activated a region matching previous reports of human MT/MST complex located on the temporo-parieto-occipital junction. Kinetic boundaries activated a region posterior and adjacent to human MT previously identified as the kinetic-occipital (KO) region or the lateral-occipital (LO) complex. The pattern of activation during viewing of biological motion was located within a small region on the ventral bank of the occipital extent of the superior-temporal sulcus (STS). This region is located lateral and anterior to human MT/MST, and anterior to KO. Among our observers, we localized this region more frequently in the right hemisphere than in the left. This was true regardless of whether the point-light figures were presented in the right or left hemifield. A small region in the medial cerebellum was also active when observers viewed biological-motion sequences. Consistent with earlier neuroimaging and single-unit studies, this pattern of results points to the existence of neural mechanisms specialized for analysis of the kinematics defining biological motion.
Overview
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Verification
Claims the paper makes
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Self-check
Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.
The self-check needs the paper’s full text.
Citations
Cites
Co-Planar Stereotaxic Atlas of the Human Brain
Talairach, J., & Tournoux, P. (1988) · Medical Entomology and Zoology · Cited by 11,798
Visual perception of biological motion and a model for its analysis
Johansson, G. (1973) · Perception & Psychophysics · doi:10.3758/bf03212378 · Cited by 4,462
Retinotopic organization in human visual cortex and the spatial precision of functional MRI
Engel, S. (1997) · Cerebral Cortex · doi:10.1093/cercor/7.2.181 · Cited by 1,621
Functional analysis of human MT and related visual cortical areas using magnetic resonance imaging
Tootell, R., Reppas, J., Kwong, K., Malach, R., Born, R., Brady, T., Rosen, B., & Belliveau, J. (1995) · The Journal of Neuroscience · doi:10.1523/jneurosci.15-04-03215.1995 · Cited by 1,415
Software tools for analysis and visualization of fMRI data
Cox, R. W., & Hyde, J. S. (1997) · NMR in Biomedicine · doi:10.1002/(sici)1099-1492(199706/08)10:4/5<171::aid-nbm453>3.0.co;2-l · Cited by 1,352
Positron Emission Tomographic Studies of the Processing of Singe Words
Petersen, S. E., Fox, P. T., Posner, M. I., Mintun, M., & Raichle, M. E. (1989) · Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience · doi:10.1162/jocn.1989.1.2.153 · Cited by 1,289
Watson, J. D. G., Myers, R., Frackowiak, R. S. J., Hajnal, J. V., Woods, R. P., Mazziotta, J. C., Shipp, S., & Zeki, S. (1993) · Cerebral Cortex · doi:10.1093/cercor/3.2.79 · Cited by 1,234
Temporal Cortex Activation in Humans Viewing Eye and Mouth Movements
Puce, A., Allison, T., Bentin, S., Gore, J. C., & McCarthy, G. (1998) · The Journal of Neuroscience · doi:10.1523/jneurosci.18-06-02188.1998 · Cited by 1,077
Wallach, H., & O'Connell, D. N. (1953) · Journal of Experimental Psychology · doi:10.1037/h0056880 · Cited by 1,001
Neural mechanisms subserving the perception of human actions
Decety, J. (1999) · Trends in Cognitive Sciences · doi:10.1016/s1364-6613(99)01312-1 · Cited by 906
Cited by
Searching for a baseline: Functional imaging and the resting human brain
Gusnard, D. A., & Raichle, M. E. (2001) · Nature Reviews Neuroscience · doi:10.1038/35094500 · Cited by 3,371
Social perception from visual cues: Role of the STS region
Allison, T., Puce, A., & McCarthy, G. (2000) · Trends in Cognitive Sciences · doi:10.1016/s1364-6613(00)01501-1 · Cited by 2,461
People thinking about thinking peopleThe role of the temporo-parietal junction in “theory of mind”
Saxe, R., & Kanwisher, N. (2003) · NeuroImage · doi:10.1016/s1053-8119(03)00230-1 · Cited by 2,316
Development and neurophysiology of mentalizing
Frith, U., & Frith, C. D. (2003) · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences · doi:10.1098/rstb.2002.1218 · Cited by 2,306
A cortical area selective for visual processing of the human body
Downing, P. E., Jiang, Y., Shuman, M., & Kanwisher, N. (2001) · Science · doi:10.1126/science.1063414 · Cited by 2,043
Metadata
- Authors
- Grossman, E., Donnelly, M., Price, R., Pickens, D., Morgan, V., Neighbor, G., & Blake, R.
- Venue
- Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
- Publisher
- MIT Press - Journals
- Published
- 2000-09-01
- Volume
- 12
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 711-720
- ISSN
- 0898-929X (ISSN-L)
- 1530-8898
- OpenAlex
- W2017246109
- Cited by
- 915
- References
- 50
- FWCI
- 43.05
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
How to cite
Cite CoChat for the checks on this page, and the paper for its own findings.
- This page
- CoChat. (2026). Citation check: Brain Areas Involved in Perception of Biological Motion. https://app.cochat.ai/papers/10.1162/089892900562417
- The paper
- Grossman, E., Donnelly, M., Price, R., Pickens, D., Morgan, V., Neighbor, G., & Blake, R. (2000). Brain Areas Involved in Perception of Biological Motion. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. https://doi.org/10.1162/089892900562417
Data sources
Bibliographic data: Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, Crossref.
Contains information from the Semantic Scholar Academic Graph Datasets, made available under the ODC Attribution License (ODC-BY 1.0).
Semantic Scholar’s data is described in: Kinney, R., et al. (2023). The Semantic Scholar Open Data Platform. arXiv:2301.10140.
