Table 1 Papers (ordered by stimulus modality, regions activated and lateralization of the activations) documenting social interaction selectivity in lateral visual areas, using static or dynamic representations of minimal social scenes (i.e., facing vs. non-facing people) or fully-fledged, meaningful interactions.

From: The effects of spatial relations and motion information in social scene perception

Stimuli

Brain regions

Notes

Meaningful interactions

Minimal social scenes

EBA

pSTS/STG

MT

Other visual areas

 
 

Abassi and Papeo1

L

  

R-MOG

 
 

Abassi and Papeo2

L

    
 

Abassi and Papeo11

L

  

FBA

 
 

Gandolfo et al.21

L

    

Walter et al.22

  

Bilateral

 

Bilateral MTG

 

Kujala et al.23

  

Bilateral

 

R-MTG, L-FG

 

Quadflieg et al.24

     

No effect for interacting > non-interacting dyads

Pierno et al.25

    

Bilateral MOG

 

Atkinson and Vuong26

    

R-MTG, R-aSTS

 

Schultz et al.27

  

R

 

Bilateral MOG

 

Masson and Isik28

  

R

   

Isik et al.4

  

R

   

Walbrin et al.7

  

R

 

R-LOTC

Only right ROIs were tested

Iacoboni et al.29

  

R

Bilateral

R-FG

 

Castelli et al.30

  

Bilateral

 

Bilateral Occipital lobe

 

Centelles et al.31

  

Bilateral

 

R-MTG, R-FG

 

Georgescu et al.32

  

Bilateral

 

Bilateral MTG

Bilateral FG

 

Lahnakoski et al.33

  

Bilateral

 

Bilateral ITC

 

Masson et al.34

  

Bilateral

 

L-IOG/MTG, R-MTG

IOG/MTG coordinates are compatible with EBA

Santos et al.35

  

Bilateral

   

Sapey-Triomphe et al.36

  

Bilateral

 

R-MOG

 

Schultz et al.21

  

Bilateral

   

Wurm et al.17

  

Bilateral

 

Bilateral LOTC/MTG

 

Wurm and Caramazza16

  

Bilateral

 

Bilateral LOTC

 

Walbrin et al.37

  

Bilateral

  

Marginal selectivity in left EBA (p = 0.054)

Dolcos et al.38

 

R

Bilateral

 

L-MTG

From whole brain contrast [approach + avoid > control]

 

Bellot et al.3

Bilateral

Bilateral

   

Walbrin and Koldewyn15

 

Bilateral

Bilateral

   

Masson et al.13

 

Bilateral

Bilateral

   

Landseidel et al. (2022)12

 

Bilateral

Bilateral

R

L-FBA

 
  1. Bold = static stimuli, italic = dynamic stimuli, bolditalic = static and dynamic stimuli; L left activity, Right right activity; MOG = middle occipital gyrus; FBA = fusiform body area; MTG = middle temporal gyrus; FG = fusiform gyrus; LOTC = lateral occipital temporal cortex; ITC = inferior temporal cortex; IOG = inferior occipital gyrus;