Electrophysiological priming effects demonstrate independence and overlap of visual regularity representations in the extrastriate cortex.

An Event Related Potential (ERP) component called the Sustained Posterior Negativity (SPN) is generated by regular visual patterns (e.g. vertical reflectional symmetry, horizontal reflectional symmetry or rotational symmetry). Behavioural studies suggest symmetry becomes increasingly salient when th...

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Autores principales: Alexis D J Makin, John Tyson-Carr, Yiovanna Derpsch, Giulia Rampone, Marco Bertamini
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:6a5eb2ab72124c84a0b0e101df6e62922021-12-02T20:15:31ZElectrophysiological priming effects demonstrate independence and overlap of visual regularity representations in the extrastriate cortex.1932-620310.1371/journal.pone.0254361https://doaj.org/article/6a5eb2ab72124c84a0b0e101df6e62922021-01-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0254361https://doaj.org/toc/1932-6203An Event Related Potential (ERP) component called the Sustained Posterior Negativity (SPN) is generated by regular visual patterns (e.g. vertical reflectional symmetry, horizontal reflectional symmetry or rotational symmetry). Behavioural studies suggest symmetry becomes increasingly salient when the exemplars update rapidly. In line with this, Experiment 1 (N = 48) found that SPN amplitude increased when three different reflectional symmetry patterns were presented sequentially. We call this effect 'SPN priming'. We then exploited SPN priming to investigate independence of different symmetry representations. SPN priming did not survive changes in retinal location (Experiment 2, N = 48) or non-orthogonal changes in axis orientation (Experiment 3, N = 48). However, SPN priming transferred between vertical and horizontal axis orientations (Experiment 4, N = 48) and between reflectional and rotational symmetry (Experiment 5, N = 48). SPN priming is interesting in itself, and a useful new method for identifying functional boundaries of the symmetry response. We conclude that visual regularities at different retinal locations are coded independently. However, there is some overlap between different regularities presented at the same retinal location.Alexis D J MakinJohn Tyson-CarrYiovanna DerpschGiulia RamponeMarco BertaminiPublic Library of Science (PLoS)articleMedicineRScienceQENPLoS ONE, Vol 16, Iss 7, p e0254361 (2021)
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Alexis D J Makin
John Tyson-Carr
Yiovanna Derpsch
Giulia Rampone
Marco Bertamini
Electrophysiological priming effects demonstrate independence and overlap of visual regularity representations in the extrastriate cortex.
description An Event Related Potential (ERP) component called the Sustained Posterior Negativity (SPN) is generated by regular visual patterns (e.g. vertical reflectional symmetry, horizontal reflectional symmetry or rotational symmetry). Behavioural studies suggest symmetry becomes increasingly salient when the exemplars update rapidly. In line with this, Experiment 1 (N = 48) found that SPN amplitude increased when three different reflectional symmetry patterns were presented sequentially. We call this effect 'SPN priming'. We then exploited SPN priming to investigate independence of different symmetry representations. SPN priming did not survive changes in retinal location (Experiment 2, N = 48) or non-orthogonal changes in axis orientation (Experiment 3, N = 48). However, SPN priming transferred between vertical and horizontal axis orientations (Experiment 4, N = 48) and between reflectional and rotational symmetry (Experiment 5, N = 48). SPN priming is interesting in itself, and a useful new method for identifying functional boundaries of the symmetry response. We conclude that visual regularities at different retinal locations are coded independently. However, there is some overlap between different regularities presented at the same retinal location.
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author Alexis D J Makin
John Tyson-Carr
Yiovanna Derpsch
Giulia Rampone
Marco Bertamini
author_facet Alexis D J Makin
John Tyson-Carr
Yiovanna Derpsch
Giulia Rampone
Marco Bertamini
author_sort Alexis D J Makin
title Electrophysiological priming effects demonstrate independence and overlap of visual regularity representations in the extrastriate cortex.
title_short Electrophysiological priming effects demonstrate independence and overlap of visual regularity representations in the extrastriate cortex.
title_full Electrophysiological priming effects demonstrate independence and overlap of visual regularity representations in the extrastriate cortex.
title_fullStr Electrophysiological priming effects demonstrate independence and overlap of visual regularity representations in the extrastriate cortex.
title_full_unstemmed Electrophysiological priming effects demonstrate independence and overlap of visual regularity representations in the extrastriate cortex.
title_sort electrophysiological priming effects demonstrate independence and overlap of visual regularity representations in the extrastriate cortex.
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