Distinct neural systems involved in agency and animacy detection

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1911-1920

  Gobbini, Maria Ida ^a   Gentili, Claudio ^b,c   Ricciardi, Emiliano ^b,c   Bellucci, Claudia ^a   Salvini, Pericle ^d   Laschi, Cecilia ^d   Guazzelli, Mario ^b   Pietrini, Pietro ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^c FONDAZIONE TOSCANA GABRIELE MONASTERIO   (Italy)

^d SCUOLA SUPERIORE SANT ANNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN; EMOTION; EVOKED RESPONSE; FACE PROFILE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUSIFORM GYRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROBOTICS; SELF CARE AGENCY; SOCIAL INTERACTION; TEMPORAL CORTEX; THEORY OF MIND;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; EMOTIONS; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OXYGEN; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; ROBOTICS; THEORY OF MIND; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79957960293     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2010.21574     Document Type: Article

References (79)

1. Amodio, D. M., & Frith, C. D. (2006). Meeting of minds: The medial frontal cortex and social cognition. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 7, 268-277.
2. Beauchamp, M. S., Lee, K. E., Haxby, J. V., & Martin, A. (2002). Parallel visual motion processing streams for manipulable objects and human movements. Neuron, 34, 149-159.
3. Blakemore, S. J., Boyer, P., Pachot-Clouard, M., Meltzoff, A., Segebarth, C., & Decety, J. (2003). The detection of contingency and animacy from simple animations in the human brain. Cerebral Cortex, 13, 837-844.
4. Bonda, E., Petrides, M., Ostry, D., & Evans, A. (1996). Specific involvement of human parietal systems and the amygdala in the perception of biological motion. Journal of Neuroscience, 16, 3737-3744.
5. Breazeal, C. L. (2005). Designing sociable robots. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
6. Brefczynski-Lewis, J., Lowitszch, S., Parsons, M., Lemieux, S., & Puce, A. (2009). Audiovisual non-verbal dynamic faces elicit converging fMRI and ERP responses. Brain Topography, 21, 193-206.
7. Buccino, G., Vogt, S., Ritzl, A., Fink, G. R., Zilles, K., Freund, H. J., et al. (2004). Neural circuits underlying imitation learning of hand actions: An event-related fMRI study. Neuron, 42, 323-334.
8. Calder, A. J., Lawrence, A. D., Keane, J., Scott, S. K., Owen, A. M., Christoffels, I., et al. (2002). Reading the mind from eye gaze. Neuropsychologia, 40, 1129-1138.
9. Cañamero, L. (2005). Emotion understanding from the perspective of autonomous robots research. Neural Networks, 18, 445-455.
10. Caramazza, A., & Shelton, J. R. (1998). Domain-specific knowledge systems in the brain the animate-inanimate distinction. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 10, 1-34.
11. Castelli, F., Happé, F., Frith, U., & Frith, C. (2000). Movement and mind: A functional imaging study of perception and interpretation of complex intentional movement patterns. Neuroimage, 12, 314-325.
12. Chao, L. L., Martin, A., & Haxby, J. V. (1999). Are face-responsive regions selective only for or faces? NeuroReport, 10, 2945-2950.
13. Comrie, B. (1981). Language universals and linguistic typology. Oxford: Basil Blackwell.
14. Connolly, A. C., Abdi, H., & Haxby, J. V. (submitted). Taxonomic organization of animal classes in distributed neural code in ventral temporal cortex.
15. Cox, R. W. (1996). AFNI: Software for analysis and visualization of functional magnetic resonance neuroimages. Computers and Biomedical Research, 29, 162-173.
16. Decety, J., Grezes, J., Costes, N., Perani, D., Jeannerod, M., Procyk, E., et al. (1997). Brain activity during observation of actions: Influence of action content and subject's strategy. Brain, 120, 1763-1777.
17. Downing, P. E., Jiang, Y., Shuman, M., & Kanwisher, N. (2001). A cortical area selective for visual processing of the human body. Science, 293, 2470-2473.
18. Engelberger, J. F. (1989). Robotics in service. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
19. Engell, A. D., & Haxby, J. V. (2007). Facial expression and gaze-direction in human superior temporal sulcus. Neuropsychologia, 45, 3234-3241.
20. Frith, C. D., & Frith, U. (2006). How we predict what other people are going to do. Brain Research, 1079, 36-46.
21. Frith, C. D., & Frith, U. (2007). Social cognition in humans. Current Biology, 17, R724-R732.
22. Gallagher, H. L., Happé, F., Brunswick, N., Fletcher, P. C., Frith, U., & Frith, C. D. (2000). Reading the mind in cartoons and stories: An fMRI study of ''theory of mind'' in verbal and nonverbal tasks. Neuropsychologia, 38, 11-21.
23. Gallagher, H. L., Jack, A. I., Roepstorff, A., & Frith, C. D. (2002). Imaging the intentional stance in a competitive game. Neuroimage, 16, 814-821.
24. Gallese, V., Fadiga, L., Fogassi, L., & Rizzolatti, G. (1996). Action recognition in the premotor cortex. Brain, 119, 593-609.
25. Gazzola, V., Rizzolatti, G., Wicker, B., & Keysers, C. (2007). The anthropomorphic brain: The mirror neuron system responds to human and robotic actions. Neuroimage, 35, 1674-1684.
26. Gentili, C., Gobbini, M. I., Ricciardi, E., Vanello, N., Pietrini, P., Haxby, J. V., et al. (2008). Differential modulation of neural activity throughout the distributed neural system for face perception in patients with Social Phobia and healthy subjects. Brain Research Bulletin, 77, 286-292.
27. Gobbini, M. I. (2010). Distributed process for retrieval of person knowledge. In A. Todorov, S. T. Fiske, & D. Prentice (Eds.), Social neuroscience: Toward understanding the underpinnings of the social mind (pp. 40-53). New York: Oxford University Press.
28. Gobbini, M. I., & Haxby, J. V. (2006). Neural response to the visual familiarity of faces. Brain Research Bulletin, 71, 76-82.
29. Gobbini, M. I., & Haxby, J. V. (2007). Neural systems for recognition of familiar faces. Neuropsychologia, 45, 32-41.
30. Gobbini, M. I., Koralek, A. C., Bryan, R. E., Montgomery, K. J., & Haxby, J. V. (2007). Two takes on the social brain: A comparison of theory of mind tasks. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 19, 1803-1814.
31. Gobbini, M. I., Leibenluft, E., Santiago, N., & Haxby, J. V. (2004). Social and emotional attachment in the neural representation of faces. Neuroimage, 22, 1628-1635.
32. Grafton, S. T., Fagg, A. H., Woods, R. P., & ArbibM. A. (1996). Functional anatomy of pointing and grasping in humans. Cerebral Cortex, 6, 226-237.
33. Grossman, E. D., & Blake, R. (2002). Brain areas active during visual perception of biological motion. Neuron, 35, 1167-1175.
34. Han, S., Jiang, Y., Humphreys, G. W., Zhou, T., & Cai, P. (2005). Distinct neural substrates for the perception of real and virtual visual worlds. Neuroimage, 24, 928-935.
35. Hanson, S. J., Matsuka, T., & Haxby, J. V. (2004). Combinatorial codes in ventral temporal lobe for object recognition: Haxby (2001) revisited: Is there a ''face'' area? Neuroimage, 23, 156-166.
36. Haxby, J. V. (2010). Social neuroscience and the representation of others: Commentary. In A. Todorov, S. T. Fiske, & D. Prentice (Eds.), Social neuroscience: Toward understanding the underpinnings of the social mind (pp. 77-81). New York: Oxford University Press.
37. Haxby, J. V., & Gobbini, M. I. (in press). Distributed neural systems for face perception. In A. J. Calder, G. Rhodes, M. H. Johnson, & J. V. Haxby (Eds.), Handbook of face perception. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
38. Haxby, J. V., Hoffman, E. A., & Gobbini, M. I. (2000). The distributed human neural system for face perception. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 4, 223-233.
39. Iacoboni, M., Molnar-Szakacs, I., Gallese, V., Buccino, G., Mazziotta, J. C., & Rizzolatti, G. (2005). Grasping the intentions of others with one's own mirror neuron system. PLoS Biology, 3, 529-535.
40. Iacoboni, M., Woods, R. P., Brass, M., Bekkering, H. L., Mazziotta, J. C., & Rizzolatti, G. (1999). Cortical mechanisms of human imitation. Science, 286, 2526-2528.
41. Itoh, K., Miwa, H., Nukariya, Y., Zecca, M., Takanobu, H., Roccella, S., et al. (2006). Mechanisms and functions for a humanoid robot to express human-like emotions. Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE. International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Orlando, Florida, USA.
42. Johnson, S. C. (2003). Detecting agents. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B, Biological Sciences, 358, 549-559.
43. Kanwisher, N., McDermott, J., & Chun, M. M. (1997). The fusiform face area: A module in human extrastriate cortex specialized for face perception. Journal of Neuroscience, 17, 4302-4311.
44. Kilner, J. M., Neal, A., Weiskopf, N., Friston, K. J., & Frith, C. D. (2009). Evidence of mirror neurons in human inferior frontal gyrus. Journal of Neuroscience, 29, 10153-10159.
45. Kriegeskorte, N., Mur, M., Ruff, D. A., Kiani, R., Bodurka, J., Esteky, H., et al. (2008). Matching categorical object representations in inferior temporal cortex of man and monkey. Neuron, 60, 1126-1141.
46. Leibenluft, E., Gobbini, M. I., Harrison, T., & Haxby, J. V. (2004). Mothers'neural activation in response to pictures of their children and other children. Biological Psychiatry, 56, 225-232.
47. Leslie, A. M. (1994). Pretending and believing: Issues in the theory of ToMM. Cognition, 50, 211-238.
48. Lillard, A. S., Zeljo, A., Curenton, S., & Kaugars, A. S. (2000). Children's understanding of the animacy constraint on pretense. Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 46, 21-44.
49. Luo, Y., Kaufman, L., & Baillargeon, R. (2009). Young infants' reasoning about physical events involving inert and self-propelled objects. Cognitive Psychology, 58, 441-486.
50. Mandler, J. M. (1992). How to build a baby: II. Conceptual primitives. Psychological Review, 4, 587-604.
51. Mar, R. A., Kelley, W. M., Heatherton, T. F., & Macrae, C. N. (2007). Detecting agency from the biological motion of veridical vs animated agents. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 2, 199-205.
52. Martin, A., & Weisberg, J. (2003). Neural foundations for understanding social and mechanical concepts. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 20, 575-587.
53. McCabe, K., Houser, D., Ryan, L., Smith, V., & Trouard, T. (2001). A functional imaging study of cooperation in two-person reciprocal exchange. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, U.S.A., 98, 11832-11835.
54. Meltzoff, A. N., Gopnik, A., & Repacholi, B. M. (1999). Toddlers'understanding of intention, desires and emotions: Exploration of the he dark ages. In P. D. Zelazo, J. W. Astington, & D. R. Olson (Eds.), Developing theories of intention (pp. 17-41). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
55. Mitchell, J. P., Banaji, M. R., & Macrae, C. N. (2005). General and specific contributions of the medial prefrontal cortex to knowledge about mental states. Neuroimage, 28, 757-762.
56. Mitchell, J. P., Heatherton, T. F., & Macrae, C. N. (2002). Distinct neural systems subserve person and object knowledge. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, U.S.A., 99, 15238-15243.
57. Montgomery, K. J., & Haxby, J. V. (2008). Mirror neuron system differentially activated by facial expressions and social hand gestures: A functional magnetic resonance imaging study. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 20, 1866-1877.
58. Montgomery, K. J., Seeherman, K. R., & Haxby, J. V. (2009). The well-tempered social brain. Psychological Science, 20, 211-213.
59. Norman, D. A. (2004). Emotional design. Why we love (or hate) everyday things. New York: Basic Books.
60. Nummenmaa, L., & Calder, A. J. (2009). Neural mechanisms of social attention. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 13, 135-143.
61. Okita, S. Y., & Schwartz, D. L. (2006). Young children's understanding of animacy and entertainment robots. International Journal of Human Robotics, 3, 392-412.
62. O'Toole, A. J., Jiang, F., Abdi, H., & Haxby, J. V. (2005). Partially distributed representations of objects and faces in ventral temporal cortex. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 17, 580-590.
63. Parsons, L. M., Fox, P. T., Downs, J. H., Glass, T., Hirsch, T. B., Martin, C. C., et al. (1995). Use of implicit motor imagery for visual shape discrimination as revealed by PET. Nature, 375, 54-58.
64. Peelen, M. V., Wiggett, A. J., & Downing, P. E. (2006). Patterns of fMRI activity dissociate overlapping functional brain areas that respond to biological motion. Neuron, 49, 815-822.
65. Puce, A., Allison, T., Bentin, S., Gore, J. C., & McCarthy, G. (1998). Temporal cortex activation in humans viewing eye and mouth movements. Journal of Neuroscience, 18, 2188-2199.
66. Ricciardi, E., Bonino, D., Sani, L., Vecchi, T., Guazzelli, M., Haxby, J. V., et al. (2009). Do we really need vision? How blind people ''see'' the actions of others. Journal of Neuroscience, 29, 9719-9724.
67. Rilling, J. K., Sanfey, A. G., Aronson, J. A., Nystrom, L. E., & Cohen, J. D. (2004). The neural correlates of theory of mind within interpersonal interactions. Neuroimage, 22, 1694-1703.
68. Rizzolatti, G., Fogassi, L., & Gallese, V. (2002). Motor and cognitive functions of the ventral premotor cortex. Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 12, 149-154.
69. Saxe, R. (2006). Uniquely human social cognition. Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 16, 235-239.
70. Saxe, R., & Kanwisher, N. (2003). People thinking about thinking people: The role of the temporo-parietal junction in ''theory of mind.'' Neuroimage, 19, 1835-1842.
71. Schultz, J., Friston, K. J., O'Doherty, J., Wolpert, D. M., & Frith, C. D. (2005). Activation in posterior superior temporal sulcus parallels parameter inducing the percept of animacy. Neuron, 45, 625-635.
72. Schultz, R. T., Grelotti, D. J., Klin, A., Kleinman, J., Van der Gaag, C., Marois, R., et al. (2003). The role of the fusiform face area in social cognition: Implications for the pathobiology of autism. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B, Biological Sciences, 358, 415-427.
73. Talairach, J., & Tournoux, P. (1988). Co-planar atlas of the human brain. New York: Thieme.
74. Tong, F., Nakayama, K., Moscovitch, M., Weinrib, O., & Kanwisher, N. (2000). Response properties of the human fusiform face area. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 17, 257-279.
75. Umiltà, C. (2007). Consciousness and control of action. In P. D. Zelazo, M. Moscovitch, & E. Thompson (Eds.), The Cambridge handbook of consciousness (pp. 327-352). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
76. Vaina, L. M., Solomon, J., Chowdhury, S., Sinha, P., & Belliveau, J. W. (2001). Functional neuroanatomy of biological motion perception in humans. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, U.S.A., 98, 11656-11661.
77. Walter, H., Adenzato, M., Ciaramidaro, A., Enrici, I., Pia, L., & Bara, B. G. (2004). Understanding intentions in social interaction: The role of the anterior paracingulate cortex. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 16, 1854-1863.
78. Wheatley, T., Milleville, S. C., & Martin, A. (2007). Understanding animate agents: Distinct roles for the social network and mirror system. Psychological Science, 18, 469-474.
79. Wiggett, A. J., Pritchard, I. C., & Downing, P. E. (2009). Animate and inanimate objects in human visual cortex: Evidence for task-independent category effects. Neuropsychologia, 47, 3111-3117.