Capacity for movement is an organisational principle in object representations
The ability to perceive moving objects is crucial for threat identification and survival. Recent neuroimaging evidence has shown that goal-directed movement is an important element of object processing in the brain. However, prior work has primarily used moving stimuli that are also animate, making...
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| author | Sophia M. Shatek Amanda K. Robinson Tijl Grootswagers Thomas A. Carlson |
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| description | The ability to perceive moving objects is crucial for threat identification and survival. Recent neuroimaging evidence has shown that goal-directed movement is an important element of object processing in the brain. However, prior work has primarily used moving stimuli that are also animate, making it difficult to disentangle the effect of movement from aliveness or animacy in representational categorisation. In the current study, we investigated the relationship between how the brain processes movement and aliveness by including stimuli that are alive but still (e.g., plants), and stimuli that are not alive but move (e.g., waves). We examined electroencephalographic (EEG) data recorded while participants viewed static images of moving or non-moving objects that were either natural or artificial. Participants classified the images according to aliveness, or according to capacity for movement. Movement explained significant variance in the neural data over and above that of aliveness, showing that capacity for movement is an important dimension in the representation of visual objects in humans. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-8c21cc4fd2414e90b3dd134b8f15d53f2022-12-22T02:34:53ZengElsevierNeuroImage1095-95722022-11-01261119517Capacity for movement is an organisational principle in object representationsSophia M. Shatek0Amanda K. Robinson1Tijl Grootswagers2Thomas A. Carlson3School of Psychology, University of Sydney, Camperdown, NSW 2006, Australia; Corresponding author.School of Psychology, University of Sydney, Camperdown, NSW 2006, Australia; Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland, QLD, AustraliaThe MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour and Development, Western Sydney University, AustraliaSchool of Psychology, University of Sydney, Camperdown, NSW 2006, AustraliaThe ability to perceive moving objects is crucial for threat identification and survival. Recent neuroimaging evidence has shown that goal-directed movement is an important element of object processing in the brain. However, prior work has primarily used moving stimuli that are also animate, making it difficult to disentangle the effect of movement from aliveness or animacy in representational categorisation. In the current study, we investigated the relationship between how the brain processes movement and aliveness by including stimuli that are alive but still (e.g., plants), and stimuli that are not alive but move (e.g., waves). We examined electroencephalographic (EEG) data recorded while participants viewed static images of moving or non-moving objects that were either natural or artificial. Participants classified the images according to aliveness, or according to capacity for movement. Movement explained significant variance in the neural data over and above that of aliveness, showing that capacity for movement is an important dimension in the representation of visual objects in humans.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053811922006322ElectroencephalographyMVPAAnimacyMovement |
| spellingShingle | Sophia M. Shatek Amanda K. Robinson Tijl Grootswagers Thomas A. Carlson Capacity for movement is an organisational principle in object representations NeuroImage Electroencephalography MVPA Animacy Movement |
| title | Capacity for movement is an organisational principle in object representations |
| title_full | Capacity for movement is an organisational principle in object representations |
| title_fullStr | Capacity for movement is an organisational principle in object representations |
| title_full_unstemmed | Capacity for movement is an organisational principle in object representations |
| title_short | Capacity for movement is an organisational principle in object representations |
| title_sort | capacity for movement is an organisational principle in object representations |
| topic | Electroencephalography MVPA Animacy Movement |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053811922006322 |
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