{"id":13016,"date":"2026-05-05T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/umram.bilkent.edu.tr\/?p=13016"},"modified":"2026-10-28T16:42:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T13:42:10","slug":"new-publication-in-brain-structure-and-function-direction-selectivity-in-naturalistic-action-observation-distributed-representations-across-the-action-observation-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/umram.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/2026\/05\/05\/new-publication-in-brain-structure-and-function-direction-selectivity-in-naturalistic-action-observation-distributed-representations-across-the-action-observation-network\/","title":{"rendered":"New publication in Brain Structure and Function: Direction selectivity in naturalistic action observation: distributed representations across the action observation network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Burcu Aysen Urgen and colleagues have published \u201cDirection selectivity in naturalistic action observation: distributed representations across the action observation network\u201d in Brain Structure and Function (May 2026).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paper-summary\">Using fMRI and 96 videos of everyday actions performed left-right, up-down or front-back, the study asks how the brain encodes the direction of naturalistic actions. The direction of an action could be decoded from activity in visual, parietal and motor areas, most strongly in visual, primary motor and somatosensory regions. Direction helps us read others&#8217; intentions, and the results show this information is spread across the brain&#8217;s action observation network.<\/p>\n<p>Authors: Zelal Eltas, Murat Batu Tunca, <strong>Burcu Aysen Urgen<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s00429-026-03111-x\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the paper<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Burcu Aysen Urgen and colleagues have published \u201cDirection selectivity in naturalistic action observation: distributed representations across the action observation network\u201d in Brain Structure and Function (May 2026). Using fMRI and 96 videos of everyday actions performed left-right, up-down or front-back, the study asks how the brain encodes the direction of naturalistic actions. The direction of\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[256],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/umram.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/umram.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/umram.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umram.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umram.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13016"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/umram.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13222,"href":"https:\/\/umram.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13016\/revisions\/13222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/umram.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umram.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umram.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}