Lateral occipitotemporal cortex encodes perceptual components of social actions rather than abstract representations of sociality

摘要: Neuroimaging studies suggest that areas in the lateral occipitotemporal cortex (LOTC) play an important role perception of social actions. However, it is unclear what precisely about actions these represent: perceptual features may be indicative - such as presence persons a scene, their orientation toward each other, and particular directedness action movements or other targets more abstract representations capture whether meant to social. In two fMRI experiments, we used representational similarity analysis (RSA) test LOTC sensitive components for interpretation and/or general sociality (Experiment 1) implied person-directedness 2). We found (person presence, person orientation, different types recipients). By contrast, levels were not captured by LOTC. Our findings regions provide basis but challenge accounts posit specialization at such. propose terms intentional aspects arises from interaction multiple processing relevant situation-dependent manner.