کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
4348849 1615180 2008 6 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Motor ontology in representing gaze–object relations
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم زیستی و بیوفناوری علم عصب شناسی علوم اعصاب (عمومی)
پیش نمایش صفحه اول مقاله
Motor ontology in representing gaze–object relations
چکیده انگلیسی

Event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) was used to explore how the human brain models gaze–object relations. During scanning participants observed a human model gazing towards or away a target object presented either in isolation or flanked by a distractor object. In two further conditions the model's gaze was shifted and subsequently maintained away from the stimulus/i. These four conditions were implemented within a factorial design in which the main factors were “type of observed behavior” (gaze vs. gaze-away) and “context” (target alone vs. target flanked by a distractor). Results revealed that premotor, parietal and temporal areas, known to sub-serve the understanding of other people actions, were significantly more activated by the observation of the model gazing towards rather than away from the stimulus/i. In addition, a significant interaction indicated that, when the target was presented in isolation, neural activity within the inferior frontal gyrus, another key area for action understanding, was influenced by gaze–object relations. Our findings suggest that this area is important for the establishment of intentional gaze–object relations and indicate that the presence of a distractor interferes with the representation of such relations.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Neuroscience Letters - Volume 430, Issue 3, 17 January 2008, Pages 246–251
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