Distributed and hierarchical neural encoding of multidimensional biological motion attributes in the human brain

• Published in: Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. 1991) Vol. 33; no. 13; pp. 8510 - 8522
• Main Authors: Wang, Ruidi, Lu, Xiqian, Jiang, Yi
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Oxford University Press 20.06.2023
• Subjects: Brain - diagnostic imaging; Brain Mapping - methods; Emotions; Humans; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Motion Perception; Photic Stimulation - methods; fMRI; facing direction; emotional state; gender; biological motion

Abstract The human visual system can efficiently extract distinct physical, biological, and social attributes (e.g. facing direction, gender, and emotional state) from biological motion (BM), but how these attributes are encoded in the brain remains largely unknown. In the current study, we used fun...