ReviewNeuropsychologia2017
On the partnership between neural representations of object categories and visual features in the ventral visual pathway.
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- Post-retrieval stress impairs subsequent memory depending on hippocampal memory trace reinstatement during reactivation.Science advances · 2024Article
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- Low-level tuning biases in higher visual cortex reflect the semantic informativeness of visual features.Journal of vision · 2023Article
- One object, two networks? Assessing the relationship between the face and body-selective regions in the primate visual system.Brain structure & function · 2022Review
- Recognition of natural objects in the archerfish.The Journal of experimental biology · 2022Article
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Abstract
A dominant view in the cognitive neuroscience of object vision is that regions of the ventral visual pathway exhibit some degree of category selectivity. However, recent findings obtained with multivariate pattern analyses (MVPA) suggest that apparent category selectivity in these regions is dependent on more basic visual features of stimuli. In which case a rethinking of the function and organization of the ventral pathway may be in order. We suggest that addressing this issue of functional specificity requires clear coding hypotheses, about object category and visual features, which make contrasting predictions about neuroimaging results in ventral pathway regions. One way to differentiate between categorical and featural coding hypotheses is to test for residual categorical effects: effects of category selectivity that cannot be accounted for by visual features of stimuli. A strong method for testing these effects, we argue, is to make object category and target visual features orthogonal in stimulus design. Recent studies that adopt this approach support a feature-based categorical coding hypothesis according to which regions of the ventral stream do indeed code for object category, but in a format at least partially based on the visual features of stimuli.
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