PSYD50H3 Lecture Notes - Block Design, Visual Cortex, Functional Neuroimaging
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Article#1: a cortical area selective for visual processing of the human body. Little research done on the mechanisms involved in perceiving the rest of the human body. Past research: semantic knowledge of human body parts may be distinct from knowledge of other object categories. Functional neuroimaging studies have implicated regions of the superior temporal sulcus in the perception of biological motion. In monkeys, neurons in the sts that respond selectively to the appearance of the body, including the face. This study reports evidence for a region in the human visual cortex selectively involved in processing the appearance of human bodies. Hypothesis: eba is selectively involved in visual processing of the human body. Found a region in the right occipitotemporal cortex that produced a significantly stronger response when subjects viewed still photos of human bodies and body parts than when viewed inanimate objects and object parts. This part named extra striate body area (eba)
