Inferring occluded projectile motion changes connectivity within a visuo-fronto-parietal network.

ABSTRACT: Anticipating the behaviour of moving objects in the physical environment is essential for a wide range of daily actions. This ability is thought to rely on mental simulations and has been shown to involve frontoparietal and early visual areas. Yet, the connectivity patterns between these regions during intuitive physical inference remain largely unknown. In this study, participants underwent fMRI while performing a task requiring them to infer the parabolic trajectory of an occluded ball falling under Newtonian physics, and a control task. Building on our previous research showing that when solving the physical inference task, early visual areas encode task-specific and perception-like information about the inferred trajectory, the present study aimed to (i) identify regions that are funct

SUBMITTER: Zbaren GA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11374914 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature