Neural encoding of biomechanically (im)possible human movements in occipitotemporal cortex

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Understanding how the human brain processes body movements is essential for clarifying the mechanisms underlying social cognition and interaction. This study investigates the encoding of biomechanically possible and impossible body movements in occipitotemporal cortex using ultra-high field 7Tesla fMRI. By predicting the response of single voxels to impossible/possible movements using a computational modelling approach, our findings demonstrate that a combination of low-level, postural, biomechanical, and categorical features significantly predicts neural responses in the ventral visual cortex, particularly within the extrastriate body area (EBA), underscoring the brain's sensitivity to biomechanical plausibility.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.34894/JPNWK6
Metadata Access https://dataverse.nl/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=doi:10.34894/JPNWK6
Provenance
Creator Marrazzo, Giuseppe ORCID logo; Martino, Federico de ORCID logo; Mukovskiy, Albert; Giese, Martin A. ORCID logo; Gelder, Beatrice de ORCID logo
Publisher DataverseNL
Contributor faculty data manager FPN; Marrazzo, Giuseppe
Publication Year 2025
Rights CC0-1.0; info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess; http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0
OpenAccess true
Contact faculty data manager FPN (Maastricht University); Marrazzo, Giuseppe (Maastricht University)
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Resource Type experimental data; Dataset
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Discipline Agriculture, Forestry, Horticulture, Aquaculture; Agriculture, Forestry, Horticulture, Aquaculture and Veterinary Medicine; Life Sciences; Social Sciences; Social and Behavioural Sciences; Soil Sciences