scholarly journals The evolution of the temporoparietal junction and posterior superior temporal sulcus

Cortex ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 118 ◽  
pp. 38-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gaurav H. Patel ◽  
Carlo Sestieri ◽  
Maurizio Corbetta
Keyword(s):  
Superior Temporal Sulcus ◽  
Temporoparietal Junction ◽  
Posterior Superior Temporal Sulcus

scholarly journals The neural circuitry of emotion-induced distortions of trust

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan B. Engelmann ◽  
Friederike Meyer ◽  
Christian C. Ruff ◽  
Ernst Fehr
Keyword(s):  
Functional Connectivity ◽  
Specific Activity ◽  
Brain Area ◽  
Superior Temporal Sulcus ◽  
Neural Circuitry ◽  
Temporoparietal Junction ◽  
Human Decision ◽  
Behavioral Trust ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Posterior Superior Temporal Sulcus

AbstractAversive emotions are likely to be a key source of irrational human decision-making but still little is known about the neural circuitry underlying emotion-cognition interactions during social behavior. Here, we show that incidental aversive emotions distort trust decisions and cause significant changes in the associated neural circuitry. Experimentally-induced negative affect reduced trust, suppressed trust-specific activity in left temporoparietal junction (TPJ), and reduced functional connectivity between TPJ and emotion-related regions such as the amygdala. The posterior superior temporal sulcus (pSTS) seems to play a key role in mediating the impact of emotion on behavior: Functional connectivity of this brain area with left TPJ was associated with trust in the absence of negative emotions, but aversive emotions disrupted this association between TPJ-pSTS connectivity and behavioral trust. Our findings may be useful for a better understanding of the neural circuitry of affective distortions and may help identify the neural bases of psychiatric diseases that are associated with emotion-related psychological and behavioral dysfunctions.

Failure to engage the temporoparietal junction/posterior superior temporal sulcus predicts impaired naturalistic social cognition in schizophrenia

Brain ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gaurav H Patel ◽  
Sophie C Arkin ◽  
Daniel Ruiz-Betancourt ◽  
Fabiola I Plaza ◽  
Safia A Mirza ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Cognition ◽  
Visual Motion ◽  
Superior Temporal Sulcus ◽  
Motion Processing ◽  
Temporoparietal Junction ◽  
Social Inference ◽  
Cortical Areas ◽  
Visual Motion Processing ◽  
The Right ◽  
Posterior Superior Temporal Sulcus

Abstract Schizophrenia is associated with marked impairments in social cognition. However, the neural correlates of these deficits remain unclear. Here we use naturalistic stimuli to examine the role of the right temporoparietal junction/posterior superior temporal sulcus (TPJ-pSTS)—an integrative hub for the cortical networks pertinent to the understanding complex social situations—in social inference, a key component of social cognition, in schizophrenia. 27 schizophrenia participants (SzP) and 21 healthy controls watched a clip of the movie “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly” while high resolution multiband fMRI images were collected. We used inter-subject correlation (ISC) to measure the evoked activity, which we then compared to social cognition as measured by The Awareness of Social Inference Test (TASIT). We also compared between groups the TPJ-pSTS BOLD activity 1) relationship with the motion content in the movie, 2) synchronization with other cortical areas involved in the viewing of the movie, and 3) relationship with the frequency of saccades made during the movie. Activation deficits were greatest in middle TPJ (TPJm) and correlated significantly with impaired TASIT performance across groups. Follow-up analyses of the TPJ-pSTS revealed decreased synchronization with other cortical areas, decreased correlation with the motion content of the movie, and decreased correlation with the saccades made during the movie. The functional impairment of the TPJm, a hub area in the middle of the TPJ-pSTS, predicts deficits in social inference in SzP by disrupting the integration of visual motion processing into the TPJ. This disrupted integration then affects the use of the TPJ to guide saccades during the visual scanning of the movie clip. These findings suggest that the TPJ may be a treatment target for improving deficits in a key component of social cognition in SzP.

Learning to See Biological Motion: Brain Activity Parallels Behavior

2004 ◽  
Vol 16 (9) ◽  
pp. 1669-1679 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily D. Grossman ◽  
Randolph Blake ◽  
Chai-Youn Kim
Keyword(s):  
Neural Activity ◽  
Biological Motion ◽  
Brain Activity ◽  
Daily Practice ◽  
Superior Temporal Sulcus ◽  
Fusiform Face Area ◽  
Face Area ◽  
Perceptual Performance ◽  
Trained Observers ◽  
Posterior Superior Temporal Sulcus

Individuals improve with practice on a variety of perceptual tasks, presumably reflecting plasticity in underlying neural mechanisms. We trained observers to discriminate biological motion from scrambled (nonbiological) motion and examined whether the resulting improvement in perceptual performance was accompanied by changes in activation within the posterior superior temporal sulcus and the fusiform “face area,” brain areas involved in perception of biological events. With daily practice, initially naive observers became more proficient at discriminating biological from scrambled animations embedded in an array of dynamic “noise” dots, with the extent of improvement varying among observers. Learning generalized to animations never seen before, indicating that observers had not simply memorized specific exemplars. In the same observers, neural activity prior to and following training was measured using functional magnetic resonance imaging. Neural activity within the posterior superior temporal sulcus and the fusiform “face area” reflected the participants' learning: BOLD signals were significantly larger after training in response both to animations experienced during training and to novel animations. The degree of learning was positively correlated with the amplitude changes in BOLD signals.

A region of right posterior superior temporal sulcus responds to observed intentional actions

2004 ◽  
Vol 42 (11) ◽  
pp. 1435-1446 ◽  
Author(s):  
R Saxe ◽  
D.-K Xiao ◽  
G Kovacs ◽  
D.I Perrett ◽  
N Kanwisher
Keyword(s):  
Superior Temporal Sulcus ◽  
Intentional Actions ◽  
Posterior Superior Temporal Sulcus

scholarly journals Rostro‐caudal organization of the human posterior superior temporal sulcus revealed by connectivity profiles

2018 ◽  
Vol 39 (12) ◽  
pp. 5112-5125 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chen Cheng ◽  
Lingzhong Fan ◽  
Xiaoluan Xia ◽  
Simon B. Eickhoff ◽  
Hai Li ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Superior Temporal Sulcus ◽  
Posterior Superior Temporal Sulcus

scholarly journals Regional Specialization and Coordination Within the Network for Perceiving and Knowing About Others

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aidas Aglinskas ◽  
Scott L Fairhall
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Processes ◽  
Imaging Study ◽  
Superior Temporal Sulcus ◽  
Brain Regions ◽  
Knowledge Network ◽  
System Level ◽  
Angular Gyrus ◽  
Semantic Retrieval ◽  
Temporoparietal Junction ◽  
Cognitive Domains

Abstract Seeing familiar faces prompts the recall of diverse kinds of person-related knowledge. How this information is encoded within the well-characterized face-/person-selective network remains an outstanding question. In this functional magnetic resonance imaging study, participants rated famous faces in 10 tasks covering 5 domains of person knowledge (social, episodic, semantic, physical, and nominal). Comparing different cognitive domains enabled us to 1) test the relative roles of brain regions in specific cognitive processes and 2) apply a multivariate network-level representational similarity analysis (NetRSA) to gain insight into underlying system-level organization. Comparing across cognitive domains revealed the importance of multiple domains in most regions, the importance of social over nominal knowledge in the anterior temporal lobe, and the functional subdivision of the temporoparietal junction into perceptual superior temporal sulcus and knowledge-related angular gyrus. NetRSA revealed a strong divide between regions implicated in ``default-mode” cognition and the fronto-lateral elements that coordinated more with ``core” perceptual components (fusiform/occipital face areas and posterior superior temporal sulcus). NetRSA also revealed a taxonomy of cognitive processes, with semantic retrieval being more similar to episodic than nominal knowledge. Collectively, these results illustrate the importance of coordinated activity of the person knowledge network in the instantiation of the diverse cognitive capacities of this system.

scholarly journals Autism Spectrum Traits in the Typical Population Predict Structure and Function in the Posterior Superior Temporal Sulcus

2010 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 493-500 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elisabeth A. H. von dem Hagen ◽  
Lauri Nummenmaa ◽  
Rongjun Yu ◽  
Andrew D. Engell ◽  
Michael P. Ewbank ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Superior Temporal Sulcus ◽  
Autism Spectrum ◽  
Structure And Function ◽  
And Function ◽  
Posterior Superior Temporal Sulcus

scholarly journals Neural Responses to Expression and Gaze in the Posterior Superior Temporal Sulcus Interact with Facial Identity

2012 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 737-744 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heidi A. Baseler ◽  
Richard J. Harris ◽  
Andrew W. Young ◽  
Timothy J. Andrews
Keyword(s):  
Superior Temporal Sulcus ◽  
Neural Responses ◽  
Facial Identity ◽  
Posterior Superior Temporal Sulcus
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