Social inclusion enhances biological motion processing: a functional near-infrared spectroscopy study.

ABSTRACT: Humans are especially tuned to the movements of other people. Neural correlates of this social attunement have been proposed to lie in and around the right posterior superior temporal sulcus (STS) region, which robustly responds to biological motion in contrast to a variety of non-biological motions. This response persists even when no form information is provided, as in point-light displays (PLDs). The aim of the current study was to assess the ability of functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) to reliably measure brain responses to PLDs of biological motion, and determine the sensitivity of these responses to interpersonal contextual factors. To establish reliability, we measured brain activation to biological motion with fNIRS and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) durin

SUBMITTER: Bolling DZ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3537903 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature