(OXFORD SERIES IN VISUAL COGNITION Series Editors Gillian Rhodes Mary A. Peterson Perception of Faces, Objects, and Scenes: Analytic and Holistic Processes Exdited by Mary A. Peterson and Gillian Rhodes ‘Fltting the Mind to the World: Adaptation and Afver-Effects in High-Level Vision Edited by Colin W. G, Clifford and Gillian Rhodes Human Body Perception From the Inside Out aited by Gtinther Knoblich, lan M. Thoraton, Marc Grosjean, ‘and Maggie Shiffrar Understanding Events: From Perception to Action Edited by Thomas F. Shipley and Jeffrey M, Zacks Understanding Events From Perception to Action EDITED BY Thomas F. Shipley and Jeffrey M. Zacks OXFORD 2008362 PERCEIVING AND SEGMENTING EVENTS ‘Watson, .D,, Myers,R., Frackowiak, R.S, Hajnal, JV, Woods, RP, Mazzi- cotta, J.C, etal, (1993). Area V5 of the human brain: Evidence from a com- bined study using positron emission tomography and magnetic revozance imaging. Cerebral Corte, 30), 19-94 ‘Wheaton, K. J, Thompson, J.C, Syngeniotis, A., Abbott, DF, & Puce, A. (2003). Viewing the motion of human body parts activates diferent regions (of premotor, temporal, and parietal cortex. Newolmage, 2, 277-288. Winston, 1S, Strange, BA, O'Doherty, 1, & Dolen, R. J (2002), Automatic ‘and intentional brain responses during evaluation of trustworthiness of faces. Nature Neuroscience, 3(3), 277-283, ‘Yin, R.K. (1969), Looking at upside-down faces. Journal of Experimental Psy ‘chology, 81, 141-148, Yovel, Gd Kanwisher, N. (2005). The neural basis ofthe behavioral face version effet. Curent Biology, 15(28), 2256-2262. 14 Animacy and Intention in the Brain: Neuroscience of Social Event Perception ANDREA $, HEBERLEIN ‘While many movements look animate because they are derived from ac- tual biological motion (as discussed in Chapters J1, 12, and 13), some ‘movements are perceived as animate even when the moving objects are ‘geometric objects or blobs. Further, these moving objects may not look ‘merely alive; in many instances, they look like intentional agents, with ‘oals, emotions, and personality traits. Viewers make such anthropo- ‘morphic attributions despite being fully aware that the shapes to which they are ascribing these anthropomorphic qualities are animated geo- ‘metric objects: the impression that the shapes are alive and social is so ‘compelling that itis not amenable to top-down information, as in elassic perceptual illusions. When people make these social attributions, a suite Of brain regions is recruited, including structures known to be important for processing cues related to people and to emotional information: the ‘amygdala, the fusiform face arca (FFA), the temporo-parietal junction CIPD, and both ventral and dorsal medial prefrontal cortices (VMPFC ‘and DMPFC; Fig. 14.1; also see color insert). Though some of these structures have roles that extend considerably beyond processing social information, this circuit has been dubbed the “social brain” (Adolphs,364 PERCEIVING AND SEGMENTING EVENTS