Topic: angular gyrus

Body movement conveys important information about agents’ internal states, such as their emotions or intentions. But how do humans use movement cues to understand others? A growing body of behavioural and neuroimaging work suggests that we map observed actions onto our own motor system to successfully interpret others’ movements, and that movement similarity between an agent and observer facilitates accurate inferences about the agent’s internal state. A network of frontal, parietal and occipitotemporal regions, termed the action-observation network (AON), is presumed to subserve this coupling

The neural mechanisms of semantic processing are difficult to delineate from lexical, acoustic, and speech-motor neural activity since most relevant neuropsychological tests require language. Furthermore, distinct signal properties of different cortical semantic processing regions may require a more comprehensive analysis of neural signal components than standard (BOLD, high gamma) metrics. We developed a Visual-based Semantic Association Task (ViSAT), evolved from predecessors (Pyramids & Palm Trees test; Camels & Cactus Test) and scaled to 100 unique trials using real-life color pict