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ArticleFrontiers in human neuroscience2014

Parallel processing in the brain's visual form system: an fMRI study.

Yoshihito Shigihara, Semir Zeki

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Article in Frontiers in human neuroscience, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. A massively asynchronous, parallel brain.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2015
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  4. Area V5-a microcosm of the visual brain.Frontiers in integrative neuroscience · 2015
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  5. Masking reveals parallel form systems in the visual brain.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2014
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2 authors.

Yoshihito ShigiharaWellcome Laboratory of Neurobiology, University College London London, UK.
Semir ZekiWellcome Laboratory of Neurobiology, University College London London, UK.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We here extend and complement our earlier time-based, magneto-encephalographic (MEG), study of the processing of forms by the visual brain (Shigihara and Zeki, 2013) with a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study, in order to better localize the activity produced in early visual areas when subjects view simple geometric stimuli of increasing perceptual complexity (lines, angles, rhombuses) constituted from the same elements (lines). Our results show that all three categories of form activate all three visual areas with which we were principally concerned (V1-V3), with angles producing the strongest and rhombuses the weakest activity in all three. The difference between the activity produced by angles and rhombuses was significant, that between lines and rhombuses was trend significant while that between lines and angles was not. Taken together with our earlier MEG results, the present ones suggest that a parallel strategy is used in processing forms, in addition to the well-documented hierarchical strategy.

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dynamic parallelismearly visual areasfMRIform visionhierarchyparallel processingretinotopic mapping

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PMID25126064
PMCPMC4115635

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