Multiple routes to mental animation: Language and functional relations drive motion processing for static images

Coventry, Kenny, Christophel, Thomas, Fehr, Thorsten, Valdés-Conroy, Berenice and Herrmann, Manfred (2013) Multiple routes to mental animation: Language and functional relations drive motion processing for static images. Psychological Science. ISSN 0956-7976 (In Press)

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Abstract

When looking at static visual images, people often exhibit mental animation, anticipating visual events that have not yet happened. But what determines when mental animation occurs? Measuring mental animation using localized brain function (visual motion processing; area MT+), we demonstrate that animating static pictures of objects is dependent both on the functionally-relevant spatial arrangement objects have with one another (e.g. a bottle above a glass versus a glass above a bottle), and the linguistic judgment to be made about those objects (e.g. Is the bottle above the glass? versus Is the bottle bigger than the glass?). Furthermore, we show that mental animation is driven by functional relations and language separately in the right hemisphere, but in interaction in the left brain. Mental animation is not a unitary construct; the predictions humans make about the visual world are driven flexibly, with hemispheric asymmetry in the routes to MT+ activation.

Item Type:	Article
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Psychology
Related URLs:	http://kennycoventry.org/pdfs/Coventry%2...
Depositing User:	Pure Connector
Date Deposited:	25 Apr 2014 11:58
Last Modified:	25 Apr 2014 11:58
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/48434
DOI:	issn:0956-7976

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