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Cignetti F, Chabeauti PY, Menant J, et al. Gravity Cues Embedded in the Kinematics of Human Motion Are Detected in Form-from-Motion Areas of the Visual System and in Motor-Related Areas. Front Psychol. 2017;8:1396doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01396.
Cignetti, F., Chabeauti, P. Y., Menant, J., Anton, J. J. J., Schmitz, C., Vaugoyeau, M., & Assaiante, C. (2017). Gravity Cues Embedded in the Kinematics of Human Motion Are Detected in Form-from-Motion Areas of the Visual System and in Motor-Related Areas. Frontiers in psychology, 81396. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01396
Cignetti, Fabien, et al. "Gravity Cues Embedded in the Kinematics of Human Motion Are Detected in Form-from-Motion Areas of the Visual System and in Motor-Related Areas." Frontiers in psychology vol. 8 (2017): 1396. doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01396
Cignetti F, Chabeauti PY, Menant J, Anton JJJ, Schmitz C, Vaugoyeau M, Assaiante C. Gravity Cues Embedded in the Kinematics of Human Motion Are Detected in Form-from-Motion Areas of the Visual System and in Motor-Related Areas. Front Psychol. 2017 Aug 17;8:1396. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01396. eCollection 2017. PMID: 28861024; PMCID: PMC5562714.
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Front Psychol. 2017 Aug 17;8:1396. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01396. eCollection 2017.

Gravity Cues Embedded in the Kinematics of Human Motion Are Detected in Form-from-Motion Areas of the Visual System and in Motor-Related Areas.

Frontiers in psychology

Fabien Cignetti, Pierre-Yves Chabeauti, Jasmine Menant, Jean-Luc J J Anton, Christina Schmitz, Marianne Vaugoyeau, Christine Assaiante

Affiliations

  1. Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS, LNC, Laboratoire de Neurosciences CognitivesMarseille, France.
  2. Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS, Fédération 3CMarseille, France.
  3. Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of New South Wales, RandwickNSW, Australia.
  4. Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS, INT UMR 7289, Centre IRM FonctionnelleMarseille, France.
  5. Lyon Neuroscience Research Center, Brain Dynamics and Cognition Team, CRNL, INSERM U1028, CNRS UMR 5292Lyon, France.
  6. University Lyon 1Lyon, France.

PMID: 28861024 PMCID: PMC5562714 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01396

Abstract

The present study investigated the cortical areas engaged in the perception of graviceptive information embedded in biological motion (BM). To this end, functional magnetic resonance imaging was used to assess the cortical areas active during the observation of human movements performed under normogravity and microgravity (parabolic flight). Movements were defined by motion cues alone using point-light displays. We found that gravity modulated the activation of a restricted set of regions of the network subtending BM perception, including form-from-motion areas of the visual system (kinetic occipital region, lingual gyrus, cuneus) and motor-related areas (primary motor and somatosensory cortices). These findings suggest that compliance of observed movements with normal gravity was carried out by mapping them onto the observer's motor system and by extracting their overall form from local motion of the moving light points. We propose that judgment on graviceptive information embedded in BM can be established based on motor resonance and visual familiarity mechanisms and not necessarily by accessing the internal model of gravitational motion stored in the vestibular cortex.

Keywords: biological motion; form-from-motion perception; functional MRI; gravity; motor resonance

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