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ArticleCommunications biology2023

Recurrent connectivity supports higher-level visual and semantic object representations in the brain.

Jacqueline von Seth, Victoria I Nicholls, Lorraine K Tyler, Alex Clarke

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Article in Communications biology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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Jacqueline von SethMRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.ORCID 0009-0000-2142-0344
Victoria I NichollsDepartment of Psychology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
Lorraine K TylerDepartment of Psychology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
Alex ClarkeDepartment of Psychology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK. ac584@cam.ac.uk.ORCID 0000-0001-7768-5229

Funding

Wellcome Trust 211200
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Visual object recognition has been traditionally conceptualised as a predominantly feedforward process through the ventral visual pathway. While feedforward artificial neural networks (ANNs) can achieve human-level classification on some image-labelling tasks, it's unclear whether computational models of vision alone can accurately capture the evolving spatiotemporal neural dynamics. Here, we probe these dynamics using a combination of representational similarity and connectivity analyses of fMRI and MEG data recorded during the recognition of familiar, unambiguous objects. Modelling the visual and semantic properties of our stimuli using an artificial neural network as well as a semantic feature model, we find that unique aspects of the neural architecture and connectivity dynamics relate to visual and semantic object properties. Critically, we show that recurrent processing between the anterior and posterior ventral temporal cortex relates to higher-level visual properties prior to semantic object properties, in addition to semantic-related feedback from the frontal lobe to the ventral temporal lobe between 250 and 500 ms after stimulus onset. These results demonstrate the distinct contributions made by semantic object properties in explaining neural activity and connectivity, highlighting it as a core part of object recognition not fully accounted for by current biologically inspired neural networks.

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Pattern Recognition, VisualSemanticsBrain MappingHumansTemporal LobeVisual Perception

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PMID38012301
PMCPMC10682037

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