Abstract social interaction representations along the lateral pathway

Published on April 17, 2024

Recent work in vision science and visual neuroscience has moved away from focusing on single people or objects to understanding the relations between them. Based on converging behavioral, computational, and neuroscience evidence, we recently argued that the visual system contains rich, abstract representations of social interactions between others [1]. We also outlined a framework for how this may be implemented in the human brain hierarchically [1], beginning with detecting agents, processing their physical relations, and finally recognizing their social interactions.

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