Human brain mapping of judgment system of movement of visualized material

Human visual system has been frequently studied. Anatomical and physiological investigations indicate functional streams within the extrastriate visual cortex of the macaque monkey. It shows that V5 area participates in motion perception. However, the region participating motion judgment was not very investigated. In this paper, we tried to reveal the region of motion judgment. We used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to explore. The short videos of moving ball (lasting 1s) and stationary ball (lasting 1s) were randomly presented to subjects repeatedly. Each paradigm consisted of two main conditions (control and activation condition). During control, subjects continued tapping regardless of stimuli. During activation condition, subjects tap only when the video of moving ball was presented (motion judgment). When subjects judge motion, activity was revealed in frontal cortex (Brodmann 9).