Visual processing of biological motion (BM) produced by living organisms is immense value for successful daily-life activities and, in particular, adaptive social behavior and nonverbal communication. Investigation BM perception neurodevelopmental disorders related to autism, preterm birth, genetic conditions substantially contributes our understanding the neural mechanisms underpinning extraordinary tuning BM. The most prominent research outcome that patients with deficits cognition are...

The cerebellum is believed to play an essential role in a variety of motor and cognitive functions through reciprocal interaction with the cerebral cortex. Recent findings suggest that cerebellar involvement network specialized for visual body motion processing may be mediated right superior temporal sulcus (STS). Yet, underlying pattern structural connectivity between STS remains unidentified. In present work, diffusion tensor imaging analysis on seeds derived from functional magnetic...

In human newborns, spontaneous visual preference for biological motion is reported to occur at birth, but the factors underpinning this are still in debate. Using a standard preferential looking paradigm, 4 experiments were carried out 3-day-old newborns assess influence of translational displacement on perception locomotion. Experiment 1 shows that prefer point-light walker display representing locomotion as if treadmill over random motion. However, no movement observed 2 when both and...

The perception of actions underwrites a wide range socio-cognitive functions. Previous neuroimaging and lesion studies identified several components the brain network for visual biological motion (BM) processing, but interactions among these their relationship to behavior remain little understood. Here, using recently developed integrative analysis structural effective connectivity derived from high angular resolution diffusion imaging (HARDI) functional magnetic resonance (fMRI), we assess...

Covering faces with masks, due to mandatory pandemic safety regulations, we can no longer rely on the habitual daily-life information. This may be thought-provoking for healthy people, but particularly challenging individuals neuropsychiatric and neurodevelopmental conditions. Au fait research reading covered reveals that: 1) wearing masks hampers facial affect recognition, though it leaves reliable inferring basic emotional expressions; 2) by buffering affect, lead narrowing of spectrum...

We tested the ability of children 3–5 years age to recognise biological motion displays. Children and adults were presented with moving point-light configurations depicting a walking person, four-legged animals (dogs), bird. Participants able reliably displays motion, but failed in identification static (four consecutive frames taken from each sequence) version. The results indicate that, irrespective highly reduced unusual structural information available displays, is sufficient for...

The anti-cancer properties of plasma-treated solutions (PTS) and their interaction with drugs are one the most popular topics in modern plasma medicine. Our research involved comparing effects four physiological saline (0.9% NaCl, Ringer's solution, Hank's Balanced Salt Solution, Solution amino acids added concentrations observed human blood) treated cold atmospheric studying combined cytotoxic effect PTS doxorubicin medroxyprogesterone acetate (MPA). Analysis studied agents on formation...

Recognition of biological motion is one the essential ingredients human evolutionary survival. When revealed solely by a set light dots on joints an invisible figure, perceptual system reliably distinguishes it from similar configurations. Here, we assessed changes in neuromagnetic cortical responses during visual perception motion. Healthy humans saw randomized stimuli consisting point-light canonical walker and scrambled configuration which spatial positions were randomly rearranged...

Recent neuroimaging and psychophysical findings suggest that perception production of human body motion share a common representational network. In the present study, we address issue whether early disorders in biological movement correspond to impairment perception. By using simultaneous masking paradigm, examined visual sensitivity adolescents (aged 13–16 years) who were born very preterm (at 27–33 gestational weeks). confidence rating procedure, presence point‐light walking figure...

The cerebellum has traditionally been viewed as a brain structure subserving skilled motor behaviors. However, the might be involved not only in movement coordination, but also action observation and understanding of others' actions. Veridical visual perception human body motion is immense importance for variety daily-life situations successful social interactions. Here, by combining psychophysics with lesion analysis, we assessed sensitivity to walking patients lesions left cerebellum....

Body motion is a rich source of information for social cognition. However, gender effects in body language reading are largely unknown. Here we investigated whether, and, if so, how recognition emotional expressions revealed by dependent. To this end, females and males were presented with point-light displays portraying knocking at door performed different expressions. The findings show that affects accuracy rather than speed reading. This effect, however, modulated content actions: surpass...

Abstract Faces convey valuable information for social cognition, effective interpersonal interaction, and non-verbal communication. Face perception is believed to be atypical in autism, but the origin of this deficit controversial. Dominant featural face encoding suggested responsible tuning scarcity. Here we used a recently developed Face-n-Food paradigm studying individuals with autistic spectrum disorders (ASD). The key benefit these images that single components do not explicitly trigger...

In children with periventricular leukomalacia (PVL), motor dysfunction is thought to be related involvement of pyramidal tract fibres in the white matter. The purpose present study was test this hypothesis. Thirteen former preterm adolescents PVL, ten whom were suffering from bilateral spastic cerebral palsy, studied by MRI. severity damage assessed on semicoronal MRI reconstructions along anatomical landmarks somatotopy precentral gyrus and internal capsule; for comparison, overall volume...

Processing of biological motion represented solely by a set lights on the joints human body is traditionally viewed as largely independent attention. Here, manipulating attention-related task demands, we assess changes in neuromagnetic cortical response to point-light walker. Irrespective evokes an increase oscillatory gamma activity over left parieto-occipital region at 80 ms post-stimulus. Only attended walker, however, yielded further peaks right parietal (120 ms) and temporal (155...

Despite the potential for better understanding functional neuroanatomy, complex relationship between neuroimaging measures of brain structure and function has confounded integrative, multimodal analyses connectivity. This is particularly true task-related effective connectivity, which describes causal influences neuronal populations. Here, we assess whether structural connectivity may usefully inform estimates in larger scale networks. To this end, introduce an integrative approach,...

Faces represent valuable signals for social cognition and non-verbal communication. A wealth of research indicates that women tend to excel in recognition facial expressions. However, it remains unclear whether females are better tuned faces. We presented healthy adult males with a set newly created food-plate images resembling faces (slightly bordering on the Giuseppe Arcimboldo style). In spontaneous task, participants were shown predetermined order from least most face. Females not only...

Adaptive social behavior and mental well-being depend on not only recognizing emotional expressions but also, inferring the absence of emotion. While neurobiology underwriting perception emotions is well studied, mechanisms for detecting a lack content in signals remain largely unknown. Here, using cutting-edge analyses effective brain connectivity, we uncover networks differentiating neutral body language. The data indicate greater activation right amygdala midline cerebellar vermis to...