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The posterior cingulate cortex and planum temporale/parietal operculum are activated by coherent visual motion

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 February 2008

A. ANTAL ,
J. BAUDEWIG ,
W. PAULUS  and
P. DECHENT
A. ANTAL
Affiliation:
Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, Georg-August University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
J. BAUDEWIG
Affiliation:
MR-Research in Neurology and Psychiatry, Georg-August University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
W. PAULUS
Affiliation:
Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, Georg-August University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
P. DECHENT
Affiliation:
MR-Research in Neurology and Psychiatry, Georg-August University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
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Abstract

The posterior cingulate cortex (PCC) is involved in higher order sensory and sensory-motor integration while the planum temporale/parietal operculum (PT/PO) junction takes part in auditory motion and vestibular processing. Both regions are activated during different types of visual stimulation. Here, we describe the response characteristics of the PCC and PT/PO to basic types of visual motion stimuli of different complexity (complex and simple coherent as well as incoherent motion). Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) was performed in 10 healthy subjects at 3 Tesla, whereby different moving dot stimuli (vertical, horizontal, rotational, radial, and random) were contrasted against a static dot pattern. All motion stimuli activated a distributed cortical network, including previously described motion-sensitive striate and extrastriate visual areas. Bilateral activations in the dorsal region of the PCC (dPCC) were evoked using coherent motion stimuli, irrespective of motion direction (vertical, horizontal, rotational, radial) with increasing activity and with higher complexity of the stimulus. In contrast, the PT/PO responded equally well to all of the different coherent motion types. Incoherent (random) motion yielded significantly less activation both in the dPCC and in the PT/PO area. These results suggest that the dPCC and the PT/PO take part in the processing of basic types of visual motion. However, in dPCC a possible effect of attentional modulation resulting in the higher activity evoked by the complex stimuli should also be considered. Further studies are warranted to incorporate these regions into the current model of the cortical motion processing network.

Keywords

HumanMotion perceptionfMRI
Type
Research Article
Information
Visual Neuroscience , Volume 25 , Issue 1 , January 2008 , pp. 17 - 26
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© 2008 Cambridge University Press

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