Seeing the Unexpected: How Brains Read Communicative Intent through Kinematics.

ABSTRACT: Social interaction requires us to recognize subtle cues in behavior, such as kinematic differences in actions and gestures produced with different social intentions. Neuroscientific studies indicate that the putative mirror neuron system (pMNS) in the premotor cortex and mentalizing system (MS) in the medial prefrontal cortex support inferences about contextually unusual actions. However, little is known regarding the brain dynamics of these systems when viewing communicatively exaggerated kinematics. In an event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging experiment, 28 participants viewed stick-light videos of pantomime gestures, recorded in a previous study, which contained varying degrees of communicative exaggeration. Participants made either social or nonsocial classifications of t

SUBMITTER: Trujillo JP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7132920 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature