TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2007//
TI  - Neural representations of kinematic laws of motion: evidence for action-perception coupling
JO  - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
A1  - Dayan, Eran
A1  - Casile, Antonino
A1  - Levit-Binnun, Nava
A1  - Giese, Martin A.
A1  - Hendler, Talma
A1  - Flash, Tamar
SP  - 20582
EP  - 20587
VL  - 104
IS  - 51
N2  - Behavioral and modeling studies have established that curved and drawing human hand movements obey the 2/3 power law, which dictates a strong coupling between movement curvature and velocity. Human motion perception seems to reflect this constraint. The functional MRI study reported here demonstrates that the brain's response to this law of motion is much stronger and more widespread than to other types of motion. Compliance with this law is reflected in the activation of a large network of brain areas subserving motor production, visual motion processing, and action observation functions. Hence, these results strongly support the notion of similar neural coding for motion perception and production. These findings suggest that cortical motion representations are optimally tuned to the kinematic and geometrical invariants characterizing biological actions.<p /> <p>Language: en</p> 
LA  - en
SN  - 0027-8424
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0710033104
ID  - ref1
ER  -