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Parallelism in the brain's visual form system.

Shigihara, Y; Zeki, S; (2013) Parallelism in the brain's visual form system. Eur J Neurosci , 38 (12) pp. 3712-3720. 10.1111/ejn.12371. Green open access

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Abstract

We used magnetoencephalography (MEG) to determine whether increasingly complex forms constituted from the same elements (lines) activate visual cortex with the same or different latencies. Twenty right-handed healthy adult volunteers viewed two different forms, lines and rhomboids, representing two levels of complexity. Our results showed that the earliest responses produced by lines and rhomboids in both striate and prestriate cortex had similar peak latencies (40 ms) although lines produced stronger responses than rhomboids. Dynamic causal modeling (DCM) showed that a parallel multiple input model to striate and prestriate cortex accounts best for the MEG response data. These results lead us to conclude that the perceptual hierarchy between lines and rhomboids is not mirrored by a temporal hierarchy in latency of activation and thus that a strategy of parallel processing appears to be used to construct forms, without implying that a hierarchical strategy may not be used in separate visual areas, in parallel.

Type: Article
Title: Parallelism in the brain's visual form system.
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1111/ejn.12371
Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ejn.12371
Additional information: © 2013 The Authors. European Journal of Neuroscience published by Federation of European Neuroscience Societies and John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Keywords: form perception, hierarchical model, orientation selective cells, prestriate cortex, striate cortex
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URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1433061
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