title: Disparate substrates for head gaze following and face perception in the monkey superior temporal sulcus.
abstract: Primates use gaze cues to follow peer gaze to an object of joint attention. Gaze following of monkeys is largely determined by head or face orientation. We used fMRI in rhesus monkeys to identify brain regions underlying head gaze following and to assess their relationship to the 'face patch' system, the latter being the likely source of information on face orientation. We trained monkeys to locate targets by either following head gaze or using a learned association of face identity with the same targets. Head gaze following activated a distinct region in the posterior STS, close to-albeit not overlapping with-the medial face patch delineated by passive viewing of faces. This 'gaze following patch' may be the substrate of the geometrical calculations needed to translate information on head orientation from the face patches into precise shifts of attention, taking the spatial relationship of the two interacting agents into account.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cognitive Neurology, Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research, University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany.
authors.forename: Karolina
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Marciniak
authors.affiliation: Department of Cognitive Neurology, Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research, University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany.
authors.forename: Artin
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Atabaki
authors.affiliation: Department of Cognitive Neurology, Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research, University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany.
authors.forename: Peter W
authors.initials: PW
authors.lastname: Dicke
authors.affiliation: Department of Cognitive Neurology, Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research, University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany.
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Thier
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001288:Attention; D001522:Behavior, Animal; D003198:Computer Simulation; D003463:Cues; D005145:Face; D005403:Fixation, Ocular; D006257:Head; D008253:Macaca mulatta; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D009949:Orientation; D010363:Pattern Recognition, Automated; D010775:Photic Stimulation; D013702:Temporal Lobe / Q000033:anatomy & histology* / Q000502:physiology; D014785:Vision, Ocular; D014796:Visual Perception
keywords: face patches; gaze following; joint attention; macaque monkey; monkey fMRI; neuroscience; social attention