Linking form and motion in the primate brain.

Full Abstract

Understanding dynamic events entails the integration of information about form and motion that is crucial for fast and successful interactions in complex environments. A striking example of our sensitivity to dynamic information is our ability to recognize animate figures by the way they move and infer motion from still images. Accumulating evidence for form and motion interactions contrasts with the traditional dissociation between shape and motion-related processes in the ventral and dorsal visual pathways. By combining findings from physiology and brain imaging it can be demonstrated that the primate brain converts information about spatiotemporal sequences into meaningful actions through interactions between early and higher visual areas processing form and motion and frontal-parietal circuits involved in the understanding of actions.

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Author information

Author/s: Kourtzi, Zoe (Z); Krekelberg, Bart (B); van Wezel, Richard J A (RJ);

Affiliation: School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK. z.kourtzi@bham.ac.uk

Grants: BB/D52199X/1 (Agency:United Kingdom Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council) ; BB/E027436/1 (Agency:United Kingdom Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council)

Journal and publication information

Publication Type: Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't; Review

Journal: Trends in cognitive sciences (Trends Cogn Sci), published in England. (Language: eng)

Reference: 2008-Jun; vol 12 (issue 6) : pp 230-6

Dates: Created 2008/06/06; Completed 2008/08/12;

PMID: 18468943, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 11/6/2008)

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MeSH headings (categories)

This article was linked to the MESH Headings shown below.

Animals
Brain - physiology
Brain Mapping
Electroencephalography
Form Perception - physiology

Humans
Motion Perception - physiology
Primates
Space Perception - physiology
Visual Pathways - physiology

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