Neural substrates of interpreting actions and emotions from body postures

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dc.contributor.authorKana, Rajesh K.
dc.contributor.authorTravers, Brittany G.
dc.contributor.otherUniversity of Alabama Birmingham
dc.contributor.otherUniversity of Alabama Tuscaloosa
dc.date.accessioned2023-09-28T22:04:13Z
dc.date.available2023-09-28T22:04:13Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.description.abstractAccurately reading the body language of others may be vital for navigating the social world, and this ability may be influenced by factors, such as our gender, personality characteristics and neurocognitive processes. This fMRI study examined the brain activation of 26 healthy individuals (14 women and 12 men) while they judged the action performed or the emotion felt by stick figure characters appearing in different postures. In both tasks, participants activated areas associated with visual representation of the body, motion processing and emotion recognition. Behaviorally, participants demonstrated greater ease in judging the physical actions of the characters compared to judging their emotional states, and participants showed more activation in areas associated with emotion processing in the emotion detection task, whereas they showed more activation in visual, spatial and action-related areas in the physical action task. Gender differences emerged in brain responses, such that men showed greater activation than women in the left dorsal premotor cortex in both tasks. Finally, participants higher in self-reported empathy demonstrated greater activation in areas associated with self-referential processing and emotion interpretation. These results suggest that empathy levels and sex of the participant may affect neural responses to emotional body language.en_US
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dc.identifier.citationKana, R. K., & Travers, B. G. (2011). Neural substrates of interpreting actions and emotions from body postures. In Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (Vol. 7, Issue 4, pp. 446–456). Oxford University Press (OUP). https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsr022
dc.identifier.doi10.1093/scan/nsr022
dc.identifier.urihttps://ir.ua.edu/handle/123456789/12267
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherOxford University Press
dc.subjectfMRI
dc.subjectbody language
dc.subjectposture
dc.subjectemotion
dc.subjectgender
dc.subjectempathy
dc.subjectANTERIOR CINGULATE CORTEX
dc.subjectINDIVIDUAL-DIFFERENCES
dc.subjectFUNCTIONAL-ANATOMY
dc.subjectPREMOTOR CORTEX
dc.subjectMIRROR NEURONS
dc.subjectPRIMARY MOTOR
dc.subjectEMPATHY
dc.subjectRECOGNITION
dc.subjectMECHANISMS
dc.subjectRESPONSES
dc.subjectNeurosciences
dc.subjectPsychology
dc.subjectPsychology, Experimental
dc.titleNeural substrates of interpreting actions and emotions from body posturesen_US
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