Perrett D I, Smith P A, Mistlin A J, Chitty A J, Head A S, Potter D D, Broennimann R, Milner A D, Jeeves M A
Behav Brain Res. 1985 Aug;16(2-3):153-70. doi: 10.1016/0166-4328(85)90089-0.
Movement provides biologically important information about the nature (and intent) of animate objects. We have studied cells in the superior temporal sulcus of the macaque monkey which seem to process such visual information. We found that the majority of cells in this brain region were selective for type of movement and for stimulus form, most cells responding only to particular movements of the body or some part of it. A variety of cell types emerged, including cells sensitive to: translation of bodies in view, movements into view (appearance) or out of view (disappearance) and the articulation and rotation of the body/head. Directional selectivity for cells sensitive to translation tended to lie along one of 3 orthogonal Cartesian axes centred on the monkey (towards/away, left/right and up/down). One type of rotation sensitive cell was tuned to rotation about one or more of these axes, a second type was sensitive to different head rotations which brought the face to confront the monkey or turned the face away. Reconstructions of cell positions indicated that cells of the same type were clumped anatomically both across the surface of the cortex and perpendicular to the surface.
运动提供了有关有生命物体的性质（及意图）的重要生物学信息。我们研究了猕猴颞上沟中的细胞，这些细胞似乎在处理此类视觉信息。我们发现，该脑区中的大多数细胞对运动类型和刺激形式具有选择性，大多数细胞仅对身体或其某个部分的特定运动做出反应。出现了多种细胞类型，包括对以下方面敏感的细胞：视野中身体的平移、进入视野（出现）或移出视野（消失）以及身体/头部的关节运动和旋转。对平移敏感的细胞的方向选择性倾向于沿着以猴子为中心的三个正交笛卡尔坐标轴之一（朝向/远离、左/右和上/下）。一种旋转敏感细胞被调整为围绕这些轴中的一个或多个旋转，第二种类型对不同的头部旋转敏感，这些旋转使面部面对猴子或使面部转离。细胞位置的重建表明，相同类型的细胞在皮质表面以及垂直于表面的方向上在解剖学上聚集在一起。
