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Justyna O. Ekert, Andrea Gajardo-Vidal, Diego L. Lorca-Puls, Thomas M. H. Hope, Fred Dick, Jennifer T. Crinion, David W. Green, Cathy J. Price
Summary: Previous studies have shown that the left posterior superior temporal sulcus (pSTS) and left temporo-parietal junction (TPJ) both contribute to phonological short-term memory, speech perception and speech production. The study further dissociated the response profiles of these regions and highlighted their distinct roles in speech processing.
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Neurosciences
Julia Landsiedel, Katie Daughters, Paul E. Downing, Kami Koldewyn
Summary: This study confirms that bilateral SI-pSTS plays a central role in dynamic social interaction perception, but is less involved when 'interactiveness' is conveyed solely with static cues. Regions in the social brain, including SI-pSTS and EBA, are sensitive to both motion and interactive content. SI-pSTS is somewhat more tuned to video interactions than is EBA, but both regions show a greater response to social interactions compared to non-interactions and both respond more strongly to videos than static images.
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Neurosciences
Johannes Rennig, Michael S. Beauchamp
Summary: Regions of the human posterior superior temporal gyrus and sulcus are responsible for processing visual and auditory speech, and successful integration of visual and auditory speech produces a characteristic neural signature that benefits the comprehension of noisy auditory speech.
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Lea Roumazeilles, Matthias Schurz, Mathilde Lojkiewiez, Lennart Verhagen, Urs Schuffelgen, Kevin Marche, Ali Mahmoodi, Andrew Emberton, Kelly Simpson, Olivier Joly, Mehdi Khamassi, Matthew F. S. Rushworth, Rogier B. Mars, Jerome Sallet
Summary: The study found that activity in a specific region of the macaque middle superior temporal cortex is modulated by the predictability of social situations, similar to the human TPJ, suggesting a precursor for theory of mind ability in the last common ancestor of human and Old World monkeys.
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Neurosciences
Qihui Zhou, Penghui Song, Xueming Wang, Hua Lin, Yuping Wang
Summary: Attention is the dynamic process of allocating limited resources to information relevant to our goals. Studies have shown that the right pSTS enhances feature discrimination processing and task performance by reducing N270 amplitude and increasing connectivity between different brain regions.
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(2021)
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Clinical Neurology
Gaurav H. Patel, Sophie C. Arkin, Daniel R. Ruiz-Betancourt, Fabiola Plaza, Safia A. Mirza, Daniel J. Vieira, Nicole E. Strauss, Casimir C. Klim, Juan P. Sanchez-Pena, Laura P. Bartel, Jack Grinband, Antigona Martinez, Rebecca A. Berman, Kevin N. Ochsner, David A. Leopold, Daniel C. Javitt
Summary: This study examines the neural correlates of social cognition in schizophrenia using naturalistic stimuli and functional MRI imaging, focusing on the TPJ region. The findings suggest that deficits in TPJ function may contribute to impaired social inference in schizophrenia participants.
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Neurosciences
C. Bodin, A. Pron, M. Le Mao, J. Regis, P. Belin, O. Coulon
Summary: The study reveals that plis de passage (PPs) can be identified as landmarks from the geometry of the STS walls, with their depth related to white-matter connectivity. These findings propose new hypotheses regarding the spatial organization of PPs, the relationship between cortical anatomy and structural connectivity, and the potential role of PPs in regional functional organization.
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Neurosciences
William D. Hopkins, Oliver Coulon, Adrien Meguerditchian, Nicky Staes, Chet C. Sherwood, Steven J. Schapiro, Jean-Francois Mangin, Brenda Bradley
Summary: This study examined the role of genetic factors in individual variation in superior temporal sulcus (STS) morphology in chimpanzees. The results showed significant correlations between single nucleotide polymorphisms in the KIAA0319 and AVPR1A genes and STS depth and lateralization, but no significant effects on surface area and depth measures for the central sulcus. The overall findings suggest that genetic factors contribute to a small to moderate amount of variation in STS morphology in chimpanzees.
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Neurosciences
Ana Arsenovic, Anja Ischebeck, Natalia Zaretskaya
Summary: This study found that different regions of the human visual system respond to illusory shapes, with the intraparietal sulcus areas showing a preference towards contralateral shapes. Additionally, as task difficulty increased, anterior areas displayed response attenuation. The research suggests that the intraparietal sulcus can represent illusory content generated not only by moving stimuli, but also by stationary stimuli.
JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
(2022)
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Neurosciences
Hamidreza Ramezanpour, Marius Gorner, Peter Thier
Summary: Recent studies have shown that neuronal discharge variability in the gaze-following patch (GFP) of the primate brain is related to task performance and can predict upcoming correct or wrong decisions, indicating that variability in neuronal discharge is an informative measure in the study of complex social behaviors. The quenching of neural variability and the relationship between task selectivity, firing rates, and variability quenching in the GFP region suggest that both firing rates and variability quenching play a role in facilitating optimal behavioral performance.
JOURNAL OF NEUROPHYSIOLOGY
(2021)
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Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Hsing-Chang Ni, Hsiang-Yuan Lin, Yi-Lung Chen, June Hung, Chen-Te Wu, Yu-Yu Wu, Hsin-Yi Liang, Rou-Shayn Chen, Susan Shur-Fen Gau, Ying-Zu Huang
Summary: This study explored the effects of intermittent theta burst stimulation (iTBS) on intellectually able adults with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The results showed that multi-session iTBS had immediate effects on parent-rate autistic symptoms. Additionally, individual factors such as social-communicative impairment, cognitive performance, psychotropic medication use, and baseline autistic symptoms modulated the effects of iTBS on cognitive flexibility and clinical symptoms.
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(2022)
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Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Kyle Rupp, Jasmine L. Hect, Madison Remick, Avniel Ghuman, Bharath Chandrasekaran, Lori L. Holt, Taylor J. Abel
Summary: The ability to recognize abstract features of voice during auditory perception is a complex task. Voice selectivity increases along the auditory hierarchy from supratemporal plane (STP) to the superior temporal gyrus (STG) and superior temporal sulcus (STS). Voice can be accurately decoded from human auditory cortical activity, even without linguistic content. Encoding models demonstrate that voice encoding in STG/STS is best explained by voice category and acoustics, while STP responses are primarily accounted for by acoustic features.
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Neurosciences
Joao Valente Duarte, Rodolfo Abreu, Miguel Castelo-Branco
Summary: This study investigates the functional separation between local biological motion perception and global dynamic body perception, revealing two independent processing stages and highlighting the importance of two early dorsal and two ventral visual regions in encoding biological motion.
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Chaoxian Wang, Yue Zhou, Congchong Li, Wenqing Tian, Yang He, Peng Fang, Yijun Li, Huiling Yuan, Xiuxiu Li, Bin Li, Xuelin Luo, Yun Zhang, Xufeng Liu, Shengjun Wu
Summary: Many studies have shown that about three biological motions can be maintained in working memory. However, the difficulties of experiment materials used have not been analyzed, which affects the ecological validity of the results. This study decomposes the biological motions and explores various influencing factors of memory difficulties. The findings demonstrate the importance of factors such as presentation duration, joint movements, limb involvement, interference task type, and complexity of the motion.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
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Neurosciences
Erik C. Brown, Brittany Stedelin, Seiji Koike, Ahmed M. Raslan, Nathan R. Selden
Summary: The study found that superior temporal sites exhibit sustained responses to both forward and reverse speech during auditory processing, and the response to paired stimuli is influenced by relative salience, along with feedback loops involving linguistic processing and articulation.
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Automation & Control Systems
Fethiye Irmak Dogan, Sarah Gillet, Elizabeth J. Carter, Iolanda Leite
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(2020)
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Robotics
Samantha Reig, Elizabeth Jeanne Carter, Xiang Zhi Tan, Aaron Steinfeld, Jodi Forlizzi
Summary: The study suggests that in situations involving complex problem-solving, people may prefer embodied robots or disembodied voices over virtually embodied agents. Additionally, people may attribute the quality of loyalty to an agent that works on behalf of someone else.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SOCIAL ROBOTICS
(2021)
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Robotics
Sanne van Waveren, Elizabeth J. Carter, Oscar Ornberg, Iolanda Leite
Summary: This paper proposes scaling robot programming to the crowd and presents initial findings showing that non-experts were able to create simple programs using an off-the-shelf visual programming interface after minimal instruction. Future research avenues are identified based on the results of this study.
FRONTIERS IN ROBOTICS AND AI
(2021)
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Robotics
Stephanie Rosenthal, Peerat Vichivanives, Elizabeth Carter
Summary: This study evaluates the impact of different types of robot navigation explanations on humans' ability to predict robot paths and finds that concise explanations that do not require mental transformations are most effective at reducing attention to the robot.
ACM TRANSACTIONS ON HUMAN-ROBOT INTERACTION
(2022)
Proceedings Paper
Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications
Lynn Kirabo, Elizabeth Jeanne Carter, Devon Barry, Aaron Steinfeld
Summary: The study fills the gap in the HCI field by investigating the unmet transit needs and technology characteristics within the disability community in Kampala, Uganda, specifically focusing on underrepresented individuals from the Global South, particularly Africa. Through co-design and stakeholder mapping, a new group of non-traditional core stakeholders emphasizing the values of inclusion, mobility, and safety within the ecosystem were identified. The research engages with concepts of disability justice and perceptions of power, contributing to the broader discussion surrounding the lived experiences of persons with disabilities.
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(2021)
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Automation & Control Systems
Ada Taylor, Ayaka Matsumoto, Elizabeth J. Carter, Alexander Plopski, Henny Admoni
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(2020)
Proceedings Paper
Computer Science, Cybernetics
Elizabeth J. Carter, Samantha Reig, Xiang Zhi Tan, Gierad Laput, Stephanie Rosenthal, Aaron Steinfeld
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(2020)
Proceedings Paper
Computer Science, Hardware & Architecture
Alexander Plopski, Ada V. Taylor, Elizabeth Jeanne Carter, Henny Admoni
ADJUNCT PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2019 IEEE INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON MIXED AND AUGMENTED REALITY (ISMAR-ADJUNCT 2019)
(2019)
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Computer Science, Theory & Methods
Xiang Zhi Tan, Elizabeth J. Carter, Samantha Reig, Aaron Steinfeld
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(2019)
Proceedings Paper
Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Xiang Zhi Tan, Samantha Reig, Elizabeth J. Carter, Aaron Steinfeld
HRI '19: 2019 14TH ACM/IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON HUMAN-ROBOT INTERACTION
(2019)
Proceedings Paper
Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Rui Li, Marc van Almkerk, Sanne van Waveren, Elizabeth Carter, Iolanda Leite
HRI '19: 2019 14TH ACM/IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON HUMAN-ROBOT INTERACTION
(2019)
Proceedings Paper
Computer Science, Cybernetics
Xiang Zhi Tan, Marynel Vazquez, Elizabeth J. Carter, Cecilia G. Morales, Aaron Steinfeld
HRI '18: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2018 ACM/IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON HUMAN-ROBOT INTERACTION
(2018)
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James Kennedy, Iolanda Leite, Andre Pereira, Ming Sun, Boyang Li, Rishub Jain, Ricson Cheng, Eli Pincus, Elizabeth J. Carter, Jill Fain Lehman
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(2017)
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Elizabeth J. Carter, Jennifer Hyde, Jessica K. Hodgins
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(2017)
Proceedings Paper
Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence
Elizabeth J. Carter, Jennifer Hyde, Diane L. Williams, Jessica K. Hodgins
34TH ANNUAL CHI CONFERENCE ON HUMAN FACTORS IN COMPUTING SYSTEMS, CHI 2016
(2016)
Article
Neurosciences
Jose Sanchez-Bornot, Roberto C. Sotero, J. A. Scott Kelso, Ozguer Simsek, Damien Coyle
Summary: This study proposes a multi-penalized state-space model for analyzing unobserved dynamics, using a data-driven regularization method. Novel algorithms are developed to solve the model, and a cross-validation method is introduced to evaluate regularization parameters. The effectiveness of this method is validated through simulations and real data analysis, enabling a more accurate exploration of cognitive brain functions.