Gaze patterns and brain activations in humans and marmosets in the Frith-Happé theory-of-mind animation task

  1. Audrey Dureux  Is a corresponding author
  2. Alessandro Zanini
  3. Janahan Selvanayagam
  4. Ravi S Menon
  5. Stefan Everling
  1. Centre for Functional and Metabolic Mapping, Robarts Research Institute, University of Western Ontario, Canada
  2. Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Western Ontario, Canada
5 figures, 12 videos and 1 additional file

Figures

Task Design.

Two different conditions of video clips resulting in eight animations were used during the scanning (ToM and Random animations), and an additional condition with four animations was used for the …

Fixation duration (A) and proportion of time looking triangles (B) in Frith-Happé’s ToM, GD and Random animations in humans (left) and marmosets (right).

(A). Bar plot depicting the fixation duration in the screen as a function of each condition. (B). Bar plot representing the proportion of time the radial distance between the current gaze position …

Figure 3 with 2 supplements
Brain networks involved in processing of Frith-Happé’s ToM and Random animations in humans.

Group functional maps displayed on right fiducial (lateral and medial views) and left and right fiducial (dorsal and ventral views) of human cortical surfaces showing significant greater activations …

Figure 3—figure supplement 1
Brain networks involved in ToM animations processing in humans.

Group functional maps showing significant greater activations for the comparison between ToM animations and Random animations displayed on the left and right fiducial human cortical surfaces …

Figure 3—figure supplement 2
Image and temporal signal-to-noise-ration (SNR) calculated on fMRI data acquired at 7T with an AC-84 Mark II gradient coil, an in-house 8-channel transmit, and a 32-channel receive coil (see methods, main text).

(A). Image SNR maps from gradient-echo-images obtained from Gilbert et al., 2021. (B) Temporal SNR (i.e. ratio of the mean signal to the standard deviation through the time course) for EPI BOLD …

Brain networks involved in processing of Frith-Happé’s ToM and Random animations in marmosets.

Group functional maps showing significant greater activations for ToM condition (A), Random condition (B) and the comparison between ToM and Random conditions (C). Group map obtained from six …

Figure 5 with 1 supplement
Brain network involved during processing of ToM compared to Random Frith-Happé’s animations in both humans (A) and marmosets (B).

Group functional maps showing significant greater activations for ToM animations compared to Random animations. (A) Group map obtained from 10 human subjects displayed on the left and right human …

Figure 5—figure supplement 1
Subcortical activations during processing of Frith-Happé’s ToM and Random animations in humans (left) and marmosets (right).

Group subcortical functional maps showing significant greater activations for ToM condition (A), Random condition (B) and the comparison between ToM and Random conditions (C). Group maps displayed …

Videos

Video 1
Theory of Mind (ToM)' Category, Frith-Happe Animations – Seducing Simulation.
Video 2
Theory of Mind (ToM)' Category, Frith-Happe Animations – Mocking Simulation.
Video 3
Theory of Mind (ToM)' Category, Frith-Happe Animations – Surprise Simulation.
Video 4
Theory of Mind (ToM)' Category, Frith-Happe Animations – Coaxing Simulation.
Video 5
Goal-Directed (GD)' Category, Frith-Happe Animations – Dancing Simulation.
Video 6
Goal-Directed (GD)' Category, Frith-Happe Animations – Fighting Simulation.
Video 7
Goal-Directed (GD)' Category, Frith-Happe Animations – Chase Simulation.
Video 8
Goal-Directed (GD)' Category, Frith-Happe Animations – Leading Simulation.
Video 9
Random' Category, Frith-Happé Animations – Billiard Simulation.
Video 10
Random' Category, Frith-Happé Animations – Drifting Simulation.
Video 11
Random' Category, Frith-Happé Animations – Star Simulation.
Video 12
Random' Category, Frith-Happé Animations – Tennis Simulation.

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