How the brain perceives causality: an event-related fMRI study
How the brain perceives causality: an event-related fMRI study
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DOI：
10.1097/00001756-200112040-00027
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发表时间：
2001-12-04
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1.7
通讯作者：
Decety, J
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作者：
Blakemore, SJ;Fonlupt, P;Decety, J
检测事件之间的因果关系是理解我们周围世界的基础。我们报告了一项事件相关的功能磁共振成像研究，旨在探讨人类大脑如何处理机械因果关系的感知。向受试者呈现机械因果事件（其中一个球与另一个球碰撞并导致另一个球运动）和非因果事件（其中球之间没有接触）。有一个显着较高水平的激活VS/MT/MST双边，上级颞沟双边和左侧顶内沟因果相对于非因果事件。将注意力引向刺激的因果性质对因果事件的神经处理没有显著影响。这些结果支持因果关系的理论表明，基本机械因果关系事件的感知是自动处理的视觉系统。NeuroReport 12：3741-3746（C）2001 Lippincott威廉姆斯和威尔金斯。
Detection of the causal relationships between events is fundamental for understanding the world around us. We report an event-related fMRI study designed to investigate how the human brain processes the perception of mechanical causality. Subjects were presented with mechanically causal events (in which a ball collides with and causes movement of another ball) and non-causal events (in which no contact is made between the balls). There was a significantly higher level of activation of VS/MT/MST bilaterally, the superior temporal sulcus bilaterally and the left intraparietal sulcus to causal relative to non-causal events. Directing attention to the causal nature of the stimuli had no significant effect on the neural processing of the causal events. These results support theories of causality suggesting that the perception of elementary mechanical causality events is automatically processed by the visual system. NeuroReport 12:3741-3746 (C) 2001 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.