Cerebral Dynamics during the Observation of Point-Light Displays Depicting Postural Adjustments.

ABSTRACT: Objective: As highly social creatures, human beings rely part of their skills of identifying, interpreting, and predicting the actions of others on the ability of perceiving biological motion. In the present study, we aim to investigate the electroencephalographic (EEG) cerebral dynamics involved in the coding of postural control and examine whether upright stance would be codified through the activation of the temporal-parietal cortical network classically enrolled in the coding of biological motion. Design: We registered the EEG activity of 12 volunteers while they passively watched point light displays (PLD) depicting quiet stable (QB) and an unstable (UB) postural situations and their respective scrambled controls (QS and US). In a pretest, 13 volunteers evaluated the level of stabilit

SUBMITTER: Martins EF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5420589 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature