Neural representations of ensemble coding in the occipital and parietal cortices.
Neuroimage
; 245: 118680, 2021 12 15.
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| ID: mdl-34718139
ABSTRACT
The human visual system is able to extract summary statistics from sets of similar items, but the underlying neural mechanism remains poorly understood. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and an encoding model, we examined how the neural representation of ensemble coding is constructed by manipulating the task-relevance of ensemble features. We found a gradual increase in orientation-selective responses to the mean orientation of multiple stimuli along the visual hierarchy only when these orientations were task-relevant. Such responses to the ensemble orientation were present in the extrastriate area, V3, even when the mean orientation was not task-relevant, indicating that the ensemble representation can co-exist with the task-relevant individual feature representation. Ensemble orientations were also represented in frontal regions, but those representations were robust only when each mean orientation was linked to a motor response dimension. Together, our findings suggest that the neural representation of the ensemble percept is formed by pooling signals at multiple levels of the visual processing stream.
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1
Colección:
01-internacional
Banco de datos:
MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Lóbulo Parietal
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Corteza Visual
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Percepción Visual
Tipo de estudio:
Prognostic_studies
Límite:
Adult
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Female
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Humans
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Male
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Neuroimage
Asunto de la revista:
DIAGNOSTICO POR IMAGEM
Año:
2021
Tipo del documento:
Article
País de afiliación:
Corea del Sur