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Functional Organization of Social Perception and Cognition in the Superior Temporal Sulcus
The superior temporal sulcus (STS) is considered a hub for social perception and cognition, including the perception of faces and human motion, as well as understanding others' actions, mental states, and language. However, the functional organization of the STS remains debated: Is this broad r...
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2015
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4816802/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26048954 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhv111 |
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author | Deen, Ben Koldewyn, Kami Kanwisher, Nancy Saxe, Rebecca |
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description | The superior temporal sulcus (STS) is considered a hub for social perception and cognition, including the perception of faces and human motion, as well as understanding others' actions, mental states, and language. However, the functional organization of the STS remains debated: Is this broad region composed of multiple functionally distinct modules, each specialized for a different process, or are STS subregions multifunctional, contributing to multiple processes? Is the STS spatially organized, and if so, what are the dominant features of this organization? We address these questions by measuring STS responses to a range of social and linguistic stimuli in the same set of human participants, using fMRI. We find a number of STS subregions that respond selectively to certain types of social input, organized along a posterior-to-anterior axis. We also identify regions of overlapping response to multiple contrasts, including regions responsive to both language and theory of mind, faces and voices, and faces and biological motion. Thus, the human STS contains both relatively domain-specific areas, and regions that respond to multiple types of social information. |
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spelling | pubmed-48168022016-04-04 Functional Organization of Social Perception and Cognition in the Superior Temporal Sulcus Deen, Ben Koldewyn, Kami Kanwisher, Nancy Saxe, Rebecca Cereb Cortex Articles The superior temporal sulcus (STS) is considered a hub for social perception and cognition, including the perception of faces and human motion, as well as understanding others' actions, mental states, and language. However, the functional organization of the STS remains debated: Is this broad region composed of multiple functionally distinct modules, each specialized for a different process, or are STS subregions multifunctional, contributing to multiple processes? Is the STS spatially organized, and if so, what are the dominant features of this organization? We address these questions by measuring STS responses to a range of social and linguistic stimuli in the same set of human participants, using fMRI. We find a number of STS subregions that respond selectively to certain types of social input, organized along a posterior-to-anterior axis. We also identify regions of overlapping response to multiple contrasts, including regions responsive to both language and theory of mind, faces and voices, and faces and biological motion. Thus, the human STS contains both relatively domain-specific areas, and regions that respond to multiple types of social information. Oxford University Press 2015-11 2015-06-05 /pmc/articles/PMC4816802/ /pubmed/26048954 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhv111 Text en © The Author 2015. Published by Oxford University Press http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com |
spellingShingle | Articles Deen, Ben Koldewyn, Kami Kanwisher, Nancy Saxe, Rebecca Functional Organization of Social Perception and Cognition in the Superior Temporal Sulcus |
title | Functional Organization of Social Perception and Cognition in the Superior Temporal Sulcus |
title_full | Functional Organization of Social Perception and Cognition in the Superior Temporal Sulcus |
title_fullStr | Functional Organization of Social Perception and Cognition in the Superior Temporal Sulcus |
title_full_unstemmed | Functional Organization of Social Perception and Cognition in the Superior Temporal Sulcus |
title_short | Functional Organization of Social Perception and Cognition in the Superior Temporal Sulcus |
title_sort | functional organization of social perception and cognition in the superior temporal sulcus |
topic | Articles |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4816802/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26048954 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhv111 |
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