Grasping the intentions of others: the perceived intentionality of an action influences activity in the superior temporal sulcus during social perception
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An explication of the neural substrates for social perception is an important component in the emerging field of social cognitive neuroscience and is relevant to the field of cognitive neuroscience as a whole. 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. Furthermore, recent evidence has shown that the perceived context of observed gaze shifts (Pelphrey, Singerman, et al., 2003; Pelphrey et al., 2004) modulates STS activity. Here, using event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging at 4 T, we investigated brain activity in response to passive viewing of goal- and nongoal-directed reaching-to-grasp movements. Participants viewed an animated character making reaching-to-grasp movements either toward (correct) or away (incorrect) from a blinking dial. Both conditions evoked significant posterior STS activity that was strongly right lateralized. By examining the time course of the blood oxygenation level-dependent response from areas of activation, we observed a functional dissociation. Incorrect trials evoked significantly greater activity in the STS than did correct trials, while an area posterior and inferior to the STS (likely corresponding to the MT/ V5 complex) responded equally to correct and incorrect movements. Parietal cortical regions, including the superior parietal lobule and the anterior intraparietal sulcus, also responded equally to correct and incorrect movements, but showed evidence for differential responding based on the hand and arm (left or right) of the animated character used to make the reaching-to-grasp movement. The results of this study further suggest that a region of the right posterior STS is involved in analyzing the intentions of other people's actions and that activity in this region is sensitive to the context of observed biological motions.
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Electrophysiological and fMRI studies consistently report the involvement of the pSTS in the perception of biological motion and eye gaze and in grasping the intentionality and appropriateness of biological motion.
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These cognitive regions allow accurate modeling of the baby's mind to predict their needs and plan behavior.
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BackgroundLive face-to-face interaction during fMRI: A new tool for social cognitive neuroscience
Redcay, E., Dodell-Feder, D., Pearrow, M. J., Mavros, P. L., Kleiner, M., Gabrieli, J. D. E., & Saxe, R. (2010) · NeuroImage · doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2010.01.052 · Cited by 336 · see citing works
“…but invisible, human partner (Fukui et al., 2006; Gallagher et al., 2002; Kircher et al., 2009; Rilling et al., 2002; Rilling et al., 2004); or (3) the participant views a virtual character who shifts gaze towards or away from the participant (Pelphrey et al., 2004b; Schilbach et al., 2006).”
Perceiving social interactions in the posterior superior temporal sulcus
Işık, L., Koldewyn, K., Beeler, D., & Kanwisher, N. (2017) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1073/pnas.1714471114 · Cited by 295 · see citing works
“To unconfound responses to social interactions in the shape stimuli from responses to merely animate agents, or the goal-directed actions of those agents, we included a contrasting condition in which a lone animate agent pursues individual goals (22, 25).”
BackgroundZucker, N. L., Losh, M., Bulik, C. M., LaBar, K. S., Piven, J., & Pelphrey, K. A. (2007) · Psychological Bulletin · doi:10.1037/0033-2909.133.6.976 · Cited by 284 · see citing works
Self-citationPfeifer, J. H., Masten, C. L., Piero, L. B. D., Dapretto, M., Fuligni, A. J., & Lieberman, M. D. (2009) · Child Development · doi:10.1111/j.1467-8624.2009.01314.x · Cited by 283 · see citing works
Embodied Cognition and the Simulation of Action to Understand Others
Grafton, S. T. (2009) · Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1111/j.1749-6632.2009.04425.x · Cited by 273 · see citing works
“For example, Pelphrey showed greater activation in right STS within the S-N for reach-to-grasp actions when the observed action was unsuccessful compared to actions when the hand reached a target (Pelphrey et al. 2004).”
BackgroundDavid, N., Bewernick, B. H., Cohen, M. X., Newen, A., Lux, S., Fink, G. R., Shah, N. J., & Vogeley, K. (2006) · Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience · doi:10.1162/jocn.2006.18.6.898 · Cited by 252 · see citing works
“For example, we observed increased activation in areas implicated in the perception of biological motion, others’ actions, faces, and of other socially relevant stimuli, including the posterior segment of the superior temporal sulcus and the fusiform gyrus (Iacoboni et al., 2004; Pelphrey, Morris, & McCarthy, 2004; Sa…”
BackgroundDisrupted cortical connectivity theory as an explanatory model for autism spectrum disorders
Kana, R. K., Libero, L. E., & Moore, M. S. (2011) · Physics of Life Reviews · doi:10.1016/j.plrev.2011.10.001 · Cited by 251 · see citing works
Papagiannopoulou, E. A., Chitty, K. M., Hermens, D. F., Hickie, I. B., & Lagopoulos, J. (2014) · Social Neuroscience · doi:10.1080/17470919.2014.934966 · Cited by 261 · see citing works
Calder, A. J., Beaver, J. D., Winston, J. S., Dolan, R. J., Jenkins, R., Eger, E., & Henson, R. N. (2007) · Current Biology · doi:10.1016/j.cub.2006.10.052 · Cited by 242 · see citing works
“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 directions.”
Who caused the pain? An fMRI investigation of empathy and intentionality in children
Jean Decety, A., Michalska, K. J., & Akitsuki, Y. (2008) · Neuropsychologia · doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2008.05.026 · Cited by 237 · see citing works
Brain regions for perceiving and reasoning about other people in school-aged children
Saxe, R. R., Whitfield-Gabrieli, S., Scholz, J., & Pelphrey, K. A. (2009) · Child Development · doi:10.1111/j.1467-8624.2009.01325.x · Cited by 234 · see citing works
The human parental brain: In vivo neuroimaging
Swain, J. E. (2011) · Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry · doi:10.1016/j.pnpbp.2010.10.017 · Cited by 234 · see citing works
“These regions might allow accurate modeling of the baby's mind to predict their needs and plan behavior (Baron-Cohen and Wheelwright, 2004; Decety and Grezes, 2006; Pelphrey et al., 2004; Saxe, 2006a).”
BackgroundWhere in the brain is morality? Everywhere and maybe nowhere
Young, L., & Dungan, J. A. (2011) · Social Neuroscience · doi:10.1080/17470919.2011.569146 · Cited by 239 · see citing works
Neuroanatomical substrates of social cognition dysfunction in autism.
Pelphrey, K., Adolphs, R., & Morris, J. P. (2004) · Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities Research Reviews · doi:10.1002/mrdd.20040 · Cited by 233 · see citing works
Self-development: Integrating cognitive, socioemotional, and neuroimaging perspectives
Pfeifer, J. H., & Peake, S. J. (2011) · Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience · doi:10.1016/j.dcn.2011.07.012 · Cited by 225 · see citing works
Young, L., Dodell-Feder, D., & Saxe, R. (2010) · Neuropsychologia · doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2010.05.012 · Cited by 208 · see citing works
“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.”
Jastorff, J., & Orban, G. A. (2009) · Journal of Neuroscience · doi:10.1523/jneurosci.4870-08.2009 · Cited by 223 · see citing works
“However, this area has also been implicated in social perception and the perception of intentional actions (Castelli et al., 2000; Grèzes et al., 2004; Pelphrey et al., 2004; Schultz et al., 2004).”
BackgroundBRAIN MECHANISMS FOR SOCIAL PERCEPTION: LESSONS FROM AUTISM AND TYPICAL DEVELOPMENT
Pelphrey, K., & Carter, E. J. (2008) · Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1196/annals.1416.007 · Cited by 228 · see citing works
“It is likely that, as our field evolves, these structures will be better understood as components in a network of regions subserving social cognition and social perception.”
BackgroundMethodInfluentialSocial context and perceived agency affects empathy for pain: An event-related fMRI investigation
Akitsuki, Y., & Jean Decety, A. (2009) · NeuroImage · doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2009.04.091 · Cited by 209 · see citing works
“This region is know to be sensitive to the detection of intentionality in the bymeans of perceptual analysis of biological motion and sensitivity to the intentionality and appropriateness of an action in a given context (e.g., Pelphrey et al., 2004).”
BackgroundThe development of the ventral prefrontal cortex and social flexibility
Nelson, E. E., & Guyer, A. E. (2011) · Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience · doi:10.1016/j.dcn.2011.01.002 · Cited by 201 · see citing works
Neural substrates of irony comprehension: A functional MRI study
Shibata, M., Toyomura, A., Itoh, H., & Abe, J.-I. (2009) · Brain Research · doi:10.1016/j.brainres.2009.10.030 · Cited by 200 · see citing works
The role of ‘shared representations’ in social perception and empathy: An fMRI study
Lawrence, E., Shaw, P., Giampietro, V., Surguladze, S., Brammer, M. J., & David, A. S. (2005) · NeuroImage · doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2005.09.001 · Cited by 197 · see citing works
Sex differences in neural and behavioral signatures of cooperation revealed by fNIRS hyperscanning
Baker, J. M., Liu, N., Cui, X., Vrtička, P., Saggar, M., Hosseini, S. M. H., & Reiss, A. L. (2016) · Scientific Reports · doi:10.1038/srep26492 · Cited by 196 · see citing works
Iriki, A., & Taoka, M. (2011) · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · doi:10.1098/rstb.2011.0190 · Cited by 199 · see citing works
Human consciousness and its relationship to social neuroscience: A novel hypothesis
Graziano, M. S. A., & Kastner, S. (2011) · Cognitive Neuroscience · doi:10.1080/17588928.2011.565121 · Cited by 195 · see citing works
“…X, visual information or auditory information, for example, but also the essence of consciousness itself, the inner feeling attached to X, must be information, or we Correspondence should be addressed to: Michael Graziano, Department of Psychology, Green Hall, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ…”
InfluentialDNA methylation of the oxytocin receptor gene predicts neural response to ambiguous social stimuli
Jack, A., Connelly, J. J., & Morris, J. P. (2012) · Frontiers in Human Neuroscience · doi:10.3389/fnhum.2012.00280 · Cited by 192 · see citing works
“Activity in pSTS, for example, has previously been found to increase in situations in which more elaborated processing of moving social stimuli is required, such as when a character’s actions are incongruent with expectations (Pelphrey et al., 2003, 2004).”
BackgroundThe neural basis of implicit moral attitude—An IAT study using event-related fMRI
Luo, Q., Nakic, M., Wheatley, T., Richell, R., Martin, A., & Blair, R. J. R. (2006) · NeuroImage · doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2005.11.005 · Cited by 191 · see citing works
“Superior temporal sulcus is thought to be involved in processing intentionality (e.g., Frith and Frith, 1999; Pelphrey et al., 2004).”
BackgroundZaki, J., Ochsner, K. N., Hanelin, J., Wager, T. D., & Mackey, S. (2007) · Social Neuroscience · doi:10.1080/17470910701401973 · Cited by 186 · see citing works
“The STS is involved in interpreting the intentional and emotional meaning of socially significant movements (Grosbras & Paus, 2006; Pelphrey et al., 2004) and speech (Sander et al.”
BackgroundInference or interaction: social cognition without precursors
Gallagher, S. (2008) · Philosophical Explorations · doi:10.1080/13869790802239227 · Cited by 178 · see citing works
“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.”
BackgroundAction Understanding in the Superior Temporal Sulcus Region
Wyk, B. C. V., Hudac, C. M., Carter, E. J., Sobel, D. M., & Pelphrey, K. A. (2009) · Psychological Science · doi:10.1111/j.1467-9280.2009.02359.x · Cited by 179 · see citing works
“that experience. A third possibility is that contrasting positive and negative affect established a context of approach and avoidance, and the STS is more responsive to the former ( Pelphrey, Viola, & McCarthy, 2004 ).”
BackgroundGeorge, N., & Conty, L. (2008) · Neurophysiologie Clinique · doi:10.1016/j.neucli.2008.03.001 · Cited by 176 · see citing works
Neurodevelopmental changes of reading the mind in the eyes
Moor, B. G., de Macks, Z. A. O., Güroğlu, B., Rombouts, S. A. R. B., van der Molen, M. W., & Crone, E. A. (2011) · Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience · doi:10.1093/scan/nsr020 · Cited by 171 · see citing works
“Supplementary Data are available at SCAN online.”
fMRI evidence of neural abnormalities in the subcortical face processing system in ASD
Kleinhans, N. M., Richards, T. L., Johnson, L. C., Weaver, K. E., Greenson, J., Dawson, G., & Aylward, E. (2010) · NeuroImage · doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2010.07.037 · Cited by 169 · see citing works
“The superior temporal gyrus, which is associated with eye-gaze (Johnson, 2005) and the interpretation of actions and social intentions of others (Pelphrey et al., 2004), reaches full maturity even later at approximately 15 years of age (Shaw et al., 2008).”
BackgroundEmulation and Mimicry for Social Interaction: A Theoretical Approach to Imitation in Autism
Hamilton, A. F. D. C. (2007) · Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology · doi:10.1080/17470210701508798 · Cited by 169 · see citing works
“Several previous studies have attempted to localize goals or intentions in the human brain, reporting activity in IFG (Iacoboni et al, 2005 ) and in the superior temporal sulcus (Pelphrey, Morris, & McCarthy, 2004 ).”
BackgroundMirror neurons in humans: Consisting or confounding evidence?
Turella, L., Pierno, A. C., Tubaldi, F., & Castiello, U. (2007) · Brain and Language · doi:10.1016/j.bandl.2007.11.002 · Cited by 162 · see citing works
The motor hierarchy: from kinematics to goals and intentions
Hamilton, A. F. D. C., & Grafton, S. T. (1993) · Oxford University Press eBooks · doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199231447.003.0018 · Cited by 161 · see citing works
“A number of studies have emphasised the role of STS in detecting biological motion (Grossman et al., 2000) and even detecting intentions (Pelphrey et al., 2004), and STS has been proposed as the main visual input to the parietal action representation system (Keysers and Perrett, 2004).”
BackgroundAttention, biological motion, and action recognition.
Thompson, J., & Parasuraman, R. (2012) · NeuroImage · doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.05.044 · Cited by 155 · see citing works
“For example, several studies have reported that the STS shows a greater response to actions that are unexpected or incongruent with the apparent mental state of the actor (Pelphrey et al., 2004; Wyk et al., 2009).”
BackgroundEpstein, R. A., & Higgins, J. S. (2006) · Cerebral Cortex · doi:10.1093/cercor/bhl079 · Cited by 152 · see citing works
“Behavioral experiments have demonstrated that subjects can identify scene meaning or ''gist'' very rapidly (Biederman and others 1974; Potter 1975; Schyns and Oliva 1994; Renninger and Malik 2004; Maljkovic and Martini 2005; Rousselet and others 2005), suggesting that the visual system might…”
Ciaramidaro, A., Bölte, S., Schlitt, S., Hainz, D., Poustka, F., Weber, B., Bara, B. G., Freitag, C. M., & Walter, H. (2014) · Schizophrenia Bulletin · doi:10.1093/schbul/sbu124 · Cited by 151 · see citing works
Jastorff, J., Begliomini, C., Fabbri‐Destro, M., Rizzolatti, G., & Orban, G. A. (2010) · Journal of Neurophysiology · doi:10.1152/jn.00254.2010 · Cited by 151 · see citing works
The neural dynamics of updating person impressions
Mende‐Siedlecki, P., Cai, Y., & Todorov, A. T. (2012) · Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience · doi:10.1093/scan/nss040 · Cited by 148 · see citing works
“…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…”
BackgroundWicker, B., Fonlupt, P., Hubert, B., Tardif, C., Gepner, B., & Deruelle, C. (2008) · Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience · doi:10.1093/scan/nsn007 · Cited by 148 · see citing works
“Cerebral areas of differential activation identified in the control subjects during explicit processing of emotional expressions (Figure 1) are coherent with the circumscribed neural network that has consistently been found activated in imaging studies of emotional processing (Phan et al., 2002 for review) and other a…”
BackgroundResultMosconi, M. W., Mack, P. B., McCarthy, G., & Pelphrey, K. A. (2005) · NeuroImage · doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2005.03.027 · Cited by 147 · see citing works
RP and N400 ERP components reflect semantic violations in visual processing of human actions
Proverbio, A. M., & Riva, F. (2009) · Neuroscience Letters · doi:10.1016/j.neulet.2009.05.012 · Cited by 142 · see citing works
“The available neurometabolic literature [5], [8], [16], [25], [30], [33] and [34] provides evidence that a fronto-parietal mirror system, including the inferior frontal gyrus, left inferior parietal lobule and superior temporal sulcus, is involved in action coding and comprehension in humans.”
Dissociable brain mechanisms for processing social exclusion and rule violation
Bolling, D. Z., Pitskel, N. B., Deen, B., Crowley, M. J., McPartland, J. C., Mayes, L. C., & Pelphrey, K. A. (2010) · NeuroImage · doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2010.10.049 · Cited by 142 · see citing works
“Additionally, right lateral parietal activation extended into a region of the posterior superior temporal sulcus which has been shown to be differentially active in incorrect (compared to correct) goal-directed actions (Pelphrey et al., 2004).”
Brain Mechanisms for Interpreting the Actions of Others From Biological-Motion Cues
Pelphrey, K. A., & Morris, J. P. (2006) · Current Directions in Psychological Science · doi:10.1111/j.0963-7214.2006.00423.x · Cited by 140 · see citing works
Cross, E. S., Hamilton, A. F. D. C., Kraemer, D. J. M., Kelley, W. M., & Grafton, S. T. (2009) · European Journal of Neuroscience · doi:10.1111/j.1460-9568.2009.06941.x · Cited by 129 · see citing works
“Plots of the parameter estimates from the post-training scan are illustrated in Figs 2B, 3B and C alongside three-dimensional illustrations of each peak voxel in each region of interest.”
BackgroundMethodResultInfluentialResearch review: Goals, intentions and mental states: challenges for theories of autism
Hamilton, A. F. D. C. (2009) · Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry · doi:10.1111/j.1469-7610.2009.02098.x · Cited by 133 · see citing works
“Recent data suggests that inferential action understanding, at least for actions which are unusual or do not have a clear purpose, engages the posterior superior temporal sulcus and temporoparietal junction (Brass et al., 2007; de Lange et al., 2008; Pelphrey, Morris, & McCarthy, 2004).”
The development and neural basis of referential gaze perception
Senju, A., Johnson, M. H., & Csibra, G. (2006) · Social Neuroscience · doi:10.1080/17470910600989797 · Cited by 130 · see citing works
“Our stimuli were similar to those used in Pelphrey et al. (2003): An image of a female face was presented on the center of the screen, and an object occasionally appeared near the periphery.”
Neural responses to visually observed social interactions
Walbrin, J., Downing, P. E., & Koldewyn, K. (2018) · Neuropsychologia · doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2018.02.023 · Cited by 130 · see citing works
“, 2012) and apparent sensitivity to the intentional content of visually observed actions (Pelphrey et al., 2004; Saxe et al., 2004).”
Mier, D., Lis, S., Neuthe, K., Sauer, C., Esslinger, C., Gallhofer, B., & Kirsch, P. (2010) · Psychophysiology · doi:10.1111/j.1469-8986.2010.01031.x · Cited by 126 · see citing works
Editorial: The neuroscience of theory of mind
Saxe, R. R., & Baron‐Cohen, S. (2006) · Social Neuroscience · doi:10.1080/17470910601117463 · Cited by 129 · see citing works
Converging Evidence for the Advantage of Dynamic Facial Expressions
Arsalidou, M., Morris, D. M., & Taylor, M. J. (2011) · Brain Topography · doi:10.1007/s10548-011-0171-4 · Cited by 127 · see citing works
“Superior temporal sulci are associated with the visual processing of social signals (Pelphrey et al. 2004; Saxe et al. 2004), such as the variant facial aspects that can generate emotional expressions on a face (Allison et al.”
BackgroundProcessing social aspects of human gaze: A combined fMRI-DTI study
Ethofer, T., Gschwind, M., & Vuilleumier, P. (2011) · NeuroImage · doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2010.11.033 · Cited by 147 · see citing works
Duration matters: Dissociating neural correlates of detection and evaluation of social gaze
Kuzmanovic, B., Georgescu, A. L., Eickhoff, S. B., Shah, N. J., Bente, G., Fink, G. R., & Vogeley, K. T. (2009) · NeuroImage · doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2009.03.037 · Cited by 123 · see citing works
“This suggests that the pSTS is also involved in the analysis of social information and intentions conveyed by gaze (Bristow et al., 2006; Hooker et al., 2003; Pelphrey et al., 2004a,b).”
BackgroundMethodInfluentialThe importance of handwriting experience on the development of the literate brain
James, K. H. (2017) · Current Directions in Psychological Science · doi:10.1177/0963721417709821 · Cited by 115 · see citing works
“…overlap is demonstrated. hand-eye coordination (Needham, Barrett, & Peterman, 2002), depth perception, (Bertenthal & Campos, 1984), sound recognition (Pelphrey, Morris, & McCarthy, 2004), spatial understanding (Siegal & White, 1975), and even language development (e.g., Smith & Gasser, 2005).”
Dio, C. D., Ardizzi, M., Massaro, D., Cesare, G. D., Gilli, G., Marchetti, A., & D, V. G. M. (2016) · Frontiers in Human Neuroscience · doi:10.3389/fnhum.2015.00705 · Cited by 117 · see citing works
A shared representation of the space near oneself and others in the human premotor cortex
Brozzoli, C., Gentile, G., Bergouignan, L., & Ehrsson, H. H. (2013) · Current Biology · doi:10.1016/j.cub.2013.07.004 · Cited by 110 · see citing works
The role of the superior temporal sulcus and the mirror neuron system in imitation
Molenberghs, P., Brander, C., Mattingley, J. B., & Cunnington, R. (2010) · Human Brain Mapping · doi:10.1002/hbm.20938 · Cited by 109 · see citing works
Charting the typical and atypical development of the social brain
Pelphrey, K. A., & Carter, E. J. (2008) · Development and Psychopathology · doi:10.1017/s0954579408000515 · Cited by 126 · see citing works
Neuronal Encoding of Human Kinematic Invariants during Action Observation
Casile, A., Dayan, E., Caggiano, V., Hendler, T., Flash, T., & Giese, M. A. (2009) · Cerebral Cortex · doi:10.1093/cercor/bhp229 · Cited by 103 · see citing works
Cognitive control in social situations: A role for the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex
Weissman, D. H., Perkins, A. S., & Woldorff, M. G. (2008) · NeuroImage · doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2007.12.021 · Cited by 103 · see citing works
“More recent findings (Grezes et al., 2004; Pelphrey et al., 2004; Pelphrey et al., 2003; Saxe et al., 2004) have led to the proposal that, through its analyses of biological motion, the posterior STS is involved in determining whether other people's actions appear consistent with our understanding…”
InfluentialAdopting the intentional stance toward natural and artificial agents
Pérez-Osorio, J., & Wykowska, A. (2019) · Philosophical Psychology · doi:10.1080/09515089.2019.1688778 · Cited by 94 · see citing works
“Activity in the STS and TPJ have been also linked to detecting and understanding the intended biological motion (e.g. Allison, Puce, & McCarthy, 2000; Pelphrey, Morris, & McCarthy, 2004; Saxe, Xiao, Kovacs, Perrett, & Kanwisher, 2004).”
BackgroundSchool-aged children exhibit domain-specific responses to biological motion
Carter, E. J., & Pelphrey, K. A. (2006) · Social Neuroscience · doi:10.1080/17470910601041382 · Cited by 101 · see citing works
“Some of these regions (e.g., the STS, MFG, and FFG) have been implicated previously in biological motion processing in adults (e.g., Bonda et al., 1996, Pelphrey et al., 2003a, 2004; Saxe et al., 2004).”
BackgroundPantelis, P. C., Byrge, L., Tyszka, J. M., Adolphs, R., & Kennedy, D. P. (2015) · Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience · doi:10.1093/scan/nsv021 · Cited by 97 · see citing works
“Supplementary data are available at SCAN online.”
BackgroundExploring the brain basis of joint action: Co-ordination of actions, goals and intentions
Newman‐Norlund, R., Noordzij, M. L., Meulenbroek, R. G. J., & Harold Bekkering, A. (2007) · Social Neuroscience · doi:10.1080/17470910701224623 · Cited by 96 · see citing works
“However, it is also true that the STS activation is stronger when viewing incorrect as opposed to correct movements (Pelphrey, Morris, & McCarthy, 2004 ).”
Background
- Authors
- Pelphrey, K. A., Morris, J. P., & McCarthy, G.
- Affiliations
- Duke University (US)
- Venue
- Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
- Publisher
- MIT Press
- Published
- 2004-12-01
- Volume
- 16
- Issue
- 10
- Pages
- 1706-1716
- ISSN
- 0898-929X (ISSN-L)
- 1530-8898
- OpenAlex
- W2103546211
- Cited by
- 454
- References
- 50
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- FWCI
- 19.47
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- doi.org
- Locations
- Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Carolina Digital Repository (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) (submittedVersion)
- UNC Libraries
- Funders
- U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
- National Institutes of Health (5u54mh066418-05)
- National Institute of Mental Health (HD40127, 1U54MH66418, MH-05 286, R01MH005286)
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (T32HD040127)
- 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
- social perception, intentionality, action observation, posterior superior temporal sulcus, biological motion, gaze shifts, MT/V5, parietal cortex
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Computer Graphics, Evoked Potentials, Female, Goals, Hand, Humans, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Male, Motion Perception, Movement, Social Perception, Temporal Lobe, Comprehension, Intention
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