Do Object-Category Selective Regions in the Ventral Visual Stream Represent Perceived Distance Information?

Autor/inn/en	Amit, Elinor; Mehoudar, Eyal; Trope, Yaacov; Yovel, Galit
Titel	Do Object-Category Selective Regions in the Ventral Visual Stream Represent Perceived Distance Information?
Quelle	In: Brain and Cognition, 80 (2012) 2, S.201-213 (13 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0278-2626
DOI	10.1016/j.bandc.2012.06.006
Schlagwörter	Brain; Neurological Organization; Visual Perception; Proximity; Stimuli + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Gehirn; Visuelle Wahrnehmung; Lebensnähe; Anreizsystem
Abstract	It is well established that scenes and objects elicit a highly selective response in specific brain regions in the ventral visual cortex. An inherent difference between these categories that has not been explored yet is their perceived distance from the observer (i.e. scenes are distal whereas objects are proximal). The current study aimed to test the extent to which scene and object selective areas are sensitive to perceived distance information independently from their category-selectivity and retinotopic location. We conducted two studies that used a distance illusion (i.e., the Ponzo lines) and showed that scene regions (the parahippocampal place area, PPA, and transverse occipital sulcus, TOS) are biased toward perceived distal stimuli, whereas the lateral occipital (LO) object region is biased toward perceived proximal stimuli. These results suggest that the ventral visual cortex plays a role in representing distance information, extending recent findings on the sensitivity of these regions to location information. More broadly, our findings imply that distance information is inherent to object recognition. (Contains 1 table and 7 figures.) (As Provided).
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