Dissociable Roles of the Superior Temporal Sulcus and the Intraparietal Sulcus in Joint Attention: A Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study

• Published in: Journal of cognitive neuroscience Vol. 20; no. 1; pp. 108 - 119
• Main Authors: Materna, Simone, Dicke, Peter W., Thier, Peter
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: One Rogers Street, Cambridge, MA 02142-1209, USA MIT Press 01.01.2008
• Subjects: Adult; Attention - physiology; Brain Mapping; Eye Movements - physiology; Female; Fixation, Ocular - physiology; Humans; Imitative Behavior - physiology; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Male; Middle Aged; Parietal Lobe - physiology; Reference Values; Social Perception; Space Perception - physiology; Temporal Lobe - physiology

Previous imaging work has shown that the superior temporal sulcus (STS) region and the intraparietal sulcus (IPS) are specifically activated during the passive observation of shifts in eye gaze [Pelphrey, K. A., Singerman, J. D., Allison, T., & McCarthy, G. Brain activation evoked by perception...