Incidental visual processing of spatiotemporal cues in communicative interactions: An fMRI investigation.

ABSTRACT: The interpretation of social interactions between people is important in many daily situations. The coordination of the relative body movements between them may provide visual cues that observers use without attention to discriminate such social interactions from the actions of people acting independently of each other. Previous studies highlighted brain regions involved in the visual processing of interacting versus independently acting people, including posterior superior temporal sulcus, and areas of lateral occipitotemporal and parietal cortices. Unlike these previous studies, we focused on the incidental visual processing of social interactions; that is, the processing of the body movements outside the observers' focus of attention. In the current study, we used functional imag

SUBMITTER: Atkinson AP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12007523 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature