Sentences with phrase «extrastriate body area»

When subjects performed mental imagery with an embodied location, there was increased activation of a region called the «extrastriate body area» (EBA), but when subjects performed mental imagery with a disembodied location, as reported in OBEs, there was increased activation in the region of the TPJ.

Normal subjects have increased activity in the extrastriate body area (EBA) when they are imitated compared to when they are not being imitated.

But Amedi and his colleagues found that the area of the visual cortex responsible for recognizing body shapes in sighted people — called the extrastriate body area — lit up with activity in the study participants when they were interpreting the human silhouettes.