STS, the core system perceptual area, has been associated with the perception of expression [ 31, 32], the evaluation of the intentions and personality traits of others [ 32, 33], and, more generally, the social evaluation of others [ 34].
There is also a natural segregation between high-level (abstract) cognitive areas and low-level (concrete) perceptual areas, most notably the visual cortex.
The present reading brain's circuitry is a masterpiece of connections linking the most basic perceptual areas to the most complex linguistic and cognitive functions, like critical analysis, inference and novel thought (ie, "deep reading processes").
You might expect to see that in the perceptual areas of the brain involved with processing sights and sounds, since people don't typically vary in how their eyes and ears are wired, he explains.
Since most amodal advocates (e.g., Simon 1995; Fodor 1975) do not deny the involvement of perceptual areas during cognitive tasks, such as visual imagery, showing that visual cortex is activated when, say, imaging the green of an apple does not provide evidence for Barsalou's theory over the amodal account.
Importantly, several studies (e.g., Hsu et al., 2012; Simmons et al., 2007) report real-time feedback between low-level perceptual areas in occipital cortex and higher-level conceptual areas in fusiform gyrus for color perception, providing direct evidence of PC mechanisms.
Significant gains were made in several cognitive and perceptual areas by regular viewers, even in subjects that were not taught by the show.
In an initial, fast but coarse, classification step, information is rapidly relayed to higher perceptual areas.
The voxels important for category identification were located similarly across participants, and distributed throughout the cortex, focused in ventral temporal perceptual areas but also including more frontal association areas (and somewhat left-lateralized).
Increased attention to and anticipation of specific (i.e., salient) stimuli are associated with increased activations in the secondary perceptual areas and in areas involved in emotional and cognitive processing of these stimuli [32; 33; 34; 35].
Neuronal processes in motor related brain areas may only induce changes in perceptual areas within the same cerebral hemisphere, which might explain this effect (see the discussion of feedback based neuronal mechanisms below).
