Although attention may play a major role in explaining the EBA/FBA activation during high-order body-related tasks, it is important to establish the functional significance of top-down modulation in different tasks. While neuroimaging studies documented the functional and anatomical specificity of EBA/FBA activation during body form perception, rTMS and brain-lesion studies provided causative evidence that activity in EBA/FBA is essential for processing morphological details of body parts. Local processing of body shapes in EBA/FBA might contribute to the representation of high-orders body attributes, including person identity and body aesthetics, which likely rely on a widespread network of different interconnected areas.
Titolo: | Functional and epiphenomenal modulation of neural activity in body selective visual areas |
Autore/i: | Urgesi C; AVENANTI, ALESSIO |
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Anno: | 2011 |
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Digital Object Identifier (DOI): | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17588928.2011.604725 |
Abstract: | Although attention may play a major role in explaining the EBA/FBA activation during high-order body-related tasks, it is important to establish the functional significance of top-down modulation in different tasks. While neuroimaging studies documented the functional and anatomical specificity of EBA/FBA activation during body form perception, rTMS and brain-lesion studies provided causative evidence that activity in EBA/FBA is essential for processing morphological details of body parts. Local processing of body shapes in EBA/FBA might contribute to the representation of high-orders body attributes, including person identity and body aesthetics, which likely rely on a widespread network of different interconnected areas. |
Data prodotto definitivo in UGOV: | 2013-06-13 22:27:17 |
Appare nelle tipologie: | 1.01 Articolo in rivista |