Dynamic and static facial expressions decoded from motion-sensitive areas in the macaque monkey

• Published in: The Journal of neuroscience Vol. 32; no. 45; pp. 15952 - 15962
• Main Authors: Furl, Nicholas, Hadj-Bouziane, Fadila, Liu, Ning, Averbeck, Bruno B, Ungerleider, Leslie G
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Society for Neuroscience 07.11.2012
• Subjects: Animals; Brain Mapping; Cerebral Cortex - physiology; Emotions; Facial Expression; Life Sciences; Macaca mulatta; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Male; Motion Perception - physiology; Neurons - physiology; Pattern Recognition, Visual - physiology; Photic Stimulation

Humans adeptly use visual motion to recognize socially relevant facial information. The macaque provides a model visual system for studying neural coding of expression movements, as its superior temporal sulcus (STS) possesses brain areas selective for faces and areas sensitive to visual motion. We...