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Categorization learning induced changes in action representations in the macaque STS.

Ding Cui¹, Lotte Sypré¹, Mathias Vissers²

¹Laboratory for Neuro- and Psychophysiology, Department of Neurosciences, KU Leuven, O&N2 Campus Gasthuisberg, Herestraat 49, bus 1021, 3000 Leuven, Belgium; Leuven Brain Institute, KU Leuven, 3000 Leuven, Belgium.

|December 4, 2022

Summary

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This study shows the superior temporal sulcus (STS) represents dynamic actions, with brain activity changing after action categorization training. This suggests the STS plays a key role in learning and recognizing actions.

Keywords:

Action observation Category learning MVPA Rhesus macaque fMRI

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Area of Science:

Neuroscience
Cognitive Science
Primate Vision

Background:

The superior temporal sulcus (STS) contains body-selective regions responding to static bodies.
It's unclear if these regions process dynamic actions or how learning affects action representation in the STS.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate STS responses to dynamic action categories.
To determine if categorization learning modulates action representations in the STS.

Main Methods:

Monkeys were trained on a forced-choice task discriminating grasping, touching, and reaching actions.
Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) was used to record brain activity before and after training during passive observation of action videos.

Main Results:

Behaviorally, monkeys generalized to untrained action exemplars post-training, especially for grasping.
fMRI revealed broad dynamic action category representation in the posterior and middle STS.
Training induced category-specific changes in middle/anterior body patches and other STS regions.

Conclusions:

The STS broadly represents observed dynamic actions.
Visual learning modulates these action representations in the STS.
Findings support the STS's role in action recognition.