ReviewCurrent opinion in neurobiology2019
Object shape and surface properties are jointly encoded in mid-level ventral visual cortex.
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- Stacked regressions and structured variance partitioning for interpretable brain maps.NeuroImage · 2024Article
- Large-scale calcium imaging reveals a systematic V4 map for encoding natural scenes.Nature communications · 2024Article
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- High-density recording reveals sparse clusters (but not columns) for shape and texture encoding in macaque V4.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2023Article
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- Stacked regressions and structured variance partitioning for interpretable brain maps.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2023Article
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- Texture-like representation of objects in human visual cortex.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022Article
- Coding strategy for surface luminance switches in the primary visual cortex of the awake monkey.Nature communications · 2022Article
- Correlation between neural responses and human perception in figure-ground segregation.Frontiers in systems neuroscience · 2022Article
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- Interaction of surface pattern and contour shape in the tilt after effects evoked by symmetry.Scientific reports · 2021Article
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Abstract
Recognizing a myriad visual objects rapidly is a hallmark of the primate visual system. Traditional theories of object recognition have focused on how crucial form features, for example, the orientation of edges, may be extracted in early visual cortex and utilized to recognize objects. An alternative view argues that much of early and mid-level visual processing focuses on encoding surface characteristics, for example, texture. Neurophysiological evidence from primate area V4 supports a third alternative - the joint, but independent, encoding of form and texture - that would be advantageous for segmenting objects from the background in natural scenes and for object recognition that is independent of surface texture. Future studies that leverage deep convolutional network models, especially focusing on network failures to match biology and behavior, can advance our insights into how such a joint representation of form and surface properties might emerge in visual cortex.
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