Simulating biological and non-biological motion.

@article{citeulike:1550063, abstract = {It is widely accepted that the brain processes biological and non-biological movements in distinct neural circuits. Biological motion, in contrast to non-biological motion, refers to active movements of living beings. Aim of our experiment was to investigate the mechanisms underlying mental simulation of these two movement types. Subjects had to either simulate mentally or to overtly reproduce previously executed or observed movements. Healthy subjects showed a very high timing precision when simulating biological and a strong distortion when simulating non-biological movements. Schizophrenic subjects, however, showed the opposite. Since overt reproduction was precise in any case, this double dissociation shows that processes underlying mental simulation of biological and non-biological movements are separate from each other and from perceptual and motor-control processes.}, address = {Department of Psychology, University of Bologna, viale Carlo Berti Pichat, 5, 40127 Bologna, Italy.}, author = {Bruzzo, Angela and Gesierich, Benno and Wohlschl\"{a}ger, Andreas }, citeulike-article-id = {1550063}, doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bandc.2007.06.006}, issn = {0278-2626}, journal = {Brain Cogn}, keywords = {boilogical\_motion, imitation, jessica, motion, nichola, trisha, yigal}, month = {August}, posted-at = {2007-08-09 14:39:11}, priority = {2}, title = {Simulating biological and non-biological motion.}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bandc.2007.06.006}, year = {2007} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:1550063 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1550063 TI - Simulating biological and non-biological motion. JF - Brain Cogn AD - Department of Psychology, University of Bologna, viale Carlo Berti Pichat, 5, 40127 Bologna, Italy. SN - 0278-2626 N2 - It is widely accepted that the brain processes biological and non-biological movements in distinct neural circuits. Biological motion, in contrast to non-biological motion, refers to active movements of living beings. Aim of our experiment was to investigate the mechanisms underlying mental simulation of these two movement types. Subjects had to either simulate mentally or to overtly reproduce previously executed or observed movements. Healthy subjects showed a very high timing precision when simulating biological and a strong distortion when simulating non-biological movements. Schizophrenic subjects, however, showed the opposite. Since overt reproduction was precise in any case, this double dissociation shows that processes underlying mental simulation of biological and non-biological movements are separate from each other and from perceptual and motor-control processes. KW - boilogical_motion KW - imitation KW - jessica KW - motion KW - nichola KW - trisha KW - yigal AU - Bruzzo, Angela AU - Gesierich, Benno AU - Wohlschläger, Andreas PY - 2007/08/04/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bandc.2007.06.006 ER -