Kabulska, Zuzanna and Zhuang, Tonghe and Lingnau, Angelika (2024) Overlapping representations of observed actions and action-related features. HUMAN BRAIN MAPPING, 45 (3): e26605. ISSN 1065-9471, 1097-0193
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The lateral occipitotemporal cortex (LOTC) has been shown to capture the representational structure of a smaller range of actions. In the current study, we carried out an fMRI experiment in which we presented human participants with images depicting 100 different actions and used representational similarity analysis (RSA) to determine which brain regions capture the semantic action space established using judgments of action similarity. Moreover, to determine the contribution of a wide range of action-related features to the neural representation of the semantic action space we constructed an action feature model on the basis of ratings of 44 different features. We found that the semantic action space model and the action feature model are best captured by overlapping activation patterns in bilateral LOTC and ventral occipitotemporal cortex (VOTC). An RSA on eight dimensions resulting from principal component analysis carried out on the action feature model revealed partly overlapping representations within bilateral LOTC, VOTC, and the parietal lobe. Our results suggest spatially overlapping representations of the semantic action space of a wide range of actions and the corresponding action-related features. Together, our results add to our understanding of the kind of representations along the LOTC that support action understanding. Using representational similarity analysis of fMRI data, we found that the representational structure and the corresponding action-related features of 100 different observed actions are captured by overlapping activation patterns in bilateral lateral and ventral occipitotemporal cortex. image
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | LATERAL OCCIPITOTEMPORAL CORTEX; NEURAL REPRESENTATIONS; FMRI; MOTION; OPTIMIZATION; REGISTRATION; ORGANIZATION; PERCEPTION; CATEGORIES; KNOWLEDGE; LOTC; multi-dimensional action space; representational space |
| Subjects: | 100 Philosophy & psychology > 150 Psychology |
| Divisions: | Human Sciences > Institut für Psychologie Human Sciences > Institut für Psychologie > Lehrstuhl für Cognitive Neuroscience – Prof. Dr. Angelika Lingnau |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Gernot Deinzer |
| Date Deposited: | 25 Jul 2025 10:31 |
| Last Modified: | 25 Jul 2025 10:31 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/63791 |
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