Human brain activity time-locked to perceptual event boundaries
Nature NeurosciencePublished 1 June 2001
Jeffrey M. Zacks, Todd S. Braver, Margaret A. Sheridan, D. Donaldson, Abraham Z. Snyder, John Ollinger
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Evidence is presented that a network of brain regions is tuned to perceptually salient event boundaries, both during intentional event segmentation and during naive passive viewing of events.
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Temporal structure has a major role in human understanding of everyday events. Observers are able to segment ongoing activity into temporal parts and sub-parts that are reliable, meaningful and correlated with ecologically relevant features of the action. Here we present evidence that a network of brain regions is tuned to perceptually salient event boundaries, both during intentional event segmentation and during naive passive viewing of events. Activity within this network may provide a basis for parsing the temporally evolving environment into meaningful units.
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