SynthesisHuman brain mapping2012
Brain regions involved in human movement perception: a quantitative voxel-based meta-analysis.
Synthesis in Human brain mapping, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 114 papers, 7 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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114 citing papers in PubMed, 7 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 296 citations in OpenAlex.
- The Role of the Right Language Network and the Multiple-Demand Network in Verbal Semantics: Insights From an Activation Likelihood Estimation Meta-Analysis of 561 Functional Neuroimaging Studies.Human brain mapping · 2025Pooled it
- Anomalous Perception of Biological Motion in Autism: A Conceptual Review and Meta-Analysis.Scientific reports · 2020Pooled it
- A meta-analysis of neuroimaging studies on pain empathy: investigating the role of visual information and observers' perspective.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2019Pooled it
- Biological motion perception in autism spectrum disorder: a meta-analysis.Molecular autism · 2019Pooled it
- The Right Dorsal Premotor Mosaic: Organization, Functions, and Connectivity.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2017Pooled it
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- Autism spectrum disorders and schizophrenia: meta-analysis of the neural correlates of social cognition.PloS one · 2011Pooled it
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- MEG-based neurofeedback for hand rehabilitation.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation · 2015Trial
- Modulation of brain activity during action observation: influence of perspective, transitivity and meaningfulness.PloS one · 2011Trial
- Behaviorally-relevant features of observed actions dominate cortical representational geometry in natural vision.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Exploring the Sensorimotor System's Role in Emotional Authenticity Discrimination: A ccPAS Study.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2026Article
- Exploring the Action-Perception Loop in Children Born Very Preterm: Associations Between Biological Motion Perception, Motor Coordination, and Behavioral Outcomes.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2026Article
- Direction selectivity in naturalistic action observation: distributed representations across the action observation network.Brain structure & function · 2026Article
- Validation of novel naturalistic limb movement stimuli for studying biological motion perception in adults.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2026Article
- Distinct information flows for different whole-body actions across LOTC subdivisions.Communications biology · 2025Article
- The effects of spatial relations and motion information in social scene perception.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Shared and Unique Neural Codes for Biological Motion Perception in Humans and Macaque Monkeys.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025Article
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- Disentangling dynamic information and temporal order processing of human action perception.PNAS nexus · 2025Article
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3 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Face, hands, and body movements are powerful signals essential for social interactions. In the last 2 decades, a large number of brain imaging studies have explored the neural correlates of the perception of these signals. Formal synthesis is crucially needed, however, to extract the key circuits involved in human motion perception across the variety of paradigms and stimuli that have been used. Here, we used the activation likelihood estimation (ALE) meta-analysis approach with random effect analysis. We performed meta-analyses on three classes of biological motion: movement of the whole body, hands, and face. Additional analyses of studies of static faces or body stimuli and sub-analyses grouping experiments as a function of their control stimuli or task employed allowed us to identify main effects of movements and forms perception, as well as effects of task demand. In addition to specific features, all conditions showed convergence in occipito-temporal and fronto-parietal regions, but with different peak location and extent. The conjunction of the three ALE maps revealed convergence in all categories in a region of the right posterior superior temporal sulcus as well as in a bilateral region at the junction between middle temporal and lateral occipital gyri. Activation in these regions was not a function of attentional demand and was significant also when controlling for non-specific motion perception. This quantitative synthesis points towards a special role for posterior superior temporal sulcus for integrating human movement percept, and supports a specific representation for body parts in middle temporal, fusiform, precentral, and parietal areas.
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