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Huichao Yang^1,2, Chenxi He¹, Zaizhu Han¹

¹State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning & IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, 100875, China.

Scientific Reports

|December 4, 2020

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Human brain perception systems for actions and objects are organized by social-communicative versus manipulation domains. These action perception systems communicate with object recognition areas in a domain-specific manner, revealing a unified organizational principle.

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Area of Science:

Neuroscience
Cognitive Science
Visual Perception

Background:

Visual perception involves distinct cortical systems for actions (dorsal) and objects (ventral occipitotemporal cortex, VOTC).
The domain structure within the action perception system and its communication with object recognition remain less understood compared to the well-defined object domains in VOTC.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate whether the action perception system is organized by domain principles, similar to object perception.
To determine if action perception systems communicate with the ventral object recognition system in a domain-specific manner.

Main Methods:

Utilized functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) in a long-block experimental design.
Participants viewed animated videos of social-communicative actions (e.g., waving) and manipulation actions (e.g., folding) performed on meaningless shapes.
Analyzed both regional brain activity and task-based functional connectivity (FC) patterns.

Main Results:

Observed action-domain-specific activations: superior temporal sulcus and right precentral gyrus for social-communicative actions; supramarginal gyrus, parietal lobes, and precentral gyrus for manipulation actions.
Demonstrated domain-specific communication: enhanced FC between the social-communicative system and the fusiform face area; enhanced FC between the manipulation system and the tool-preferring lateral occipitotemporal cortex.
Found a significant correlation between FC strength and local activity within the VOTC.

Conclusions:

The findings suggest that social-communicative and manipulation domains are overarching organizational principles for both object and action perception systems.
Action and object perception systems exhibit domain-based functional communication, highlighting a unified principle of human interaction perception.