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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: Trends Cogn Sci. 2020 Dec 14;25(2):100–110. doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2020.11.006

Figure 4. Biological motion processing in the macaque STS.

Figure 4.

A. Macaque face patches are organised in a manner consistent with two functionally distinct pathways. Dorsal Patches (purple) AF and MD respond selectively to faces in natural motion. Ventral patches (red) PL, ML and AL respond selectively to static face images. Face patch MF exhibits a split response to moving and static faces consistent with the dorsal / ventral distinction [18]. B. Results from an fMRI study of macaques viewing natural videos that contained animals (left) or no animals (right) [19]. Surface maps show the percent variance explained by biological motion. The brain on the bottom left shows how biological motion drives the neural response from early visual cortex and into the STS.