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ArticleNeuroImage2021

Decoding visual colour from scalp electroencephalography measurements.

Jasper E Hajonides, Anna C Nobre, Freek van Ede, Mark G Stokes

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Article in NeuroImage, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers.

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25 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Jasper E HajonidesOxford Centre for Human Brain Activity, Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, United Kingdom; Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom. Electronic address: jasper.hajonidesvandermeulen@psy.ox.ac.uk.
Anna C NobreOxford Centre for Human Brain Activity, Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, United Kingdom; Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.
Freek van EdeOxford Centre for Human Brain Activity, Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, United Kingdom; Institute for Brain and Behavior Amsterdam, Department of Experimental and Applied Psychology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Mark G StokesDepartment of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.

Funding

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/M010732/1Department of HealthMedical Research Council MR/J009024/1Wellcome TrustWellcome Trust 104571/Z/14/ZWellcome Trust 203139/Z/16/Z
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Recent advances have made it possible to decode various aspects of visually presented stimuli from patterns of scalp EEG measurements. As of recently, such multivariate methods have been commonly used to decode visual-spatial features such as location, orientation, or spatial frequency. In the current study, we show that it is also possible to track visual colour processing by using Linear Discriminant Analysis on patterns of EEG activity. Building on other recent demonstrations, we show that colour decoding: (1) reflects sensory qualities (as opposed to, for example, verbal labelling) with a prominent contribution from posterior electrodes contralateral to the stimulus, (2) conforms to a parametric coding space, (3) is possible in multi-item displays, and (4) is comparable in magnitude to the decoding of visual stimulus orientation. Through subsampling our data, we also provide an estimate of the approximate number of trials and participants required for robust decoding. Finally, we show that while colour decoding can be sensitive to subtle differences in luminance, our colour decoding results are primarily driven by measured colour differences between stimuli. Colour decoding opens a relevant new dimension in which to track visual processing using scalp EEG measurements, while bypassing potential confounds associated with decoding approaches that focus on spatial features.

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AdolescentAdultCerebral CortexColor PerceptionContrast SensitivityElectroencephalographyElectrooculographyFemaleFunctional LateralityFunctional NeuroimagingHumansMalePattern Recognition, VisualSignal Processing, Computer-AssistedSpace PerceptionSupervised Machine LearningColorDecodingEEGFeaturesSupervised learningVision

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PMID33836272
PMCPMC8285579

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