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Zhao D, Shen X, Li S, He W. The Impact of Spatial Frequency on the Perception of Crowd Emotion: An fMRI Study. Brain Sci 2023; 13:1699. [PMID: 38137147 PMCID: PMC10742193 DOI: 10.3390/brainsci13121699] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/09/2023] [Revised: 12/06/2023] [Accepted: 12/07/2023] [Indexed: 12/24/2023] Open
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Recognizing the emotions of faces in a crowd is crucial for understanding overall behavior and intention as well as for smooth and friendly social interactions. However, it is unclear whether the spatial frequency of faces affects the discrimination of crowd emotion. Although high- and low-spatial-frequency information for individual faces is processed by distinct neural channels, there is a lack of evidence on how this applies to crowd faces. Here, we used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to investigate neural representations of crowd faces at different spatial frequencies. Thirty-three participants were asked to compare whether a test face was happy or more fearful than a crowd face that varied in high, low, and broad spatial frequencies. Our findings revealed that fearful faces with low spatial frequencies were easier to recognize in terms of accuracy (78.9%) and response time (927 ms). Brain regions, such as the fusiform gyrus, located in the ventral visual stream, were preferentially activated in high spatial frequency crowds, which, however, were the most difficult to recognize behaviorally (68.9%). Finally, the right inferior frontal gyrus was found to be better activated in the broad spatial frequency crowds. Our study suggests that people are more sensitive to fearful crowd faces with low spatial frequency and that high spatial frequency does not promote crowd face recognition.
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- Dongfang Zhao
- Research Center of Brain and Cognitive Neuroscience, Liaoning Normal University, Dalian 116029, China; (D.Z.); (X.S.); (S.L.)
- Key Laboratory of Brain and Cognitive Neuroscience, Liaoning Province, Dalian 116029, China
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- Research Center of Brain and Cognitive Neuroscience, Liaoning Normal University, Dalian 116029, China; (D.Z.); (X.S.); (S.L.)
- Key Laboratory of Brain and Cognitive Neuroscience, Liaoning Province, Dalian 116029, China
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- Research Center of Brain and Cognitive Neuroscience, Liaoning Normal University, Dalian 116029, China; (D.Z.); (X.S.); (S.L.)
- Key Laboratory of Brain and Cognitive Neuroscience, Liaoning Province, Dalian 116029, China
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- Research Center of Brain and Cognitive Neuroscience, Liaoning Normal University, Dalian 116029, China; (D.Z.); (X.S.); (S.L.)
- Key Laboratory of Brain and Cognitive Neuroscience, Liaoning Province, Dalian 116029, China
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Zhang X, Liu L, Yang F, Liu Z, Jin X, Han S, Zhang Y, Cheng J, Wen B. Neurovascular coupling dysfunction in high myopia patients: Evidence from a multi-modal magnetic resonance imaging analysis. J Neuroradiol 2023:S0150-9861(23)00242-0. [PMID: 37777086 DOI: 10.1016/j.neurad.2023.09.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/29/2023] [Revised: 09/09/2023] [Accepted: 09/24/2023] [Indexed: 10/02/2023]
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BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE To investigate neurovascular coupling dysfunction in high myopia (HM) patients. MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of 37 HM patients and 36 healthy controls were included in this study. Degree centrality (DC), regional homogeneity (ReHo), amplitude of low-frequency fluctuations (ALFF), and fractional ALFF (fALFF) maps were employed to represent neuronal activity. Cerebral blood perfusion was characterized by cerebral blood flow (CBF). The correlation coefficient was calculated to reflect the relationship between neuronal activity and cerebral blood perfusion. Pearson partial correlation analysis was utilized to evaluate the association between HM dysfunction and clinical indicators. RESULTS HM patients exhibited significant alterations in neurovascular coupling across 37 brain regions compared to healthy controls. The brain regions with marked changes varied among the four neurovascular coupling patterns, including the middle frontal gyrus, superior occipital gyrus, middle occipital gyrus, and fusiform gyrus. Additionally, the superior frontal gyrus orbital part, medial superior frontal gyrus, inferior occipital gyrus, and dorsolateral superior frontal gyrus displayed significant changes in three coupling patterns. In HM patients, the ReHo-CBF changes in the inferior frontal gyrus orbital part were positively correlated with best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA) and refractive diopter changes. Similarly, the ALFF-CBF changes in the inferior frontal gyrus orbital part showed a positive correlation with refractive diopter changes. ReHo-CBF and ALFF-CBF alterations in the paracentral lobule were positively correlated with BCVA and refractive diopter changes. CONCLUSION Our findings underscore the abnormal alterations in neurovascular coupling across multiple brain regions in HM patients. These results suggest that neurovascular dysfunction in HM patients may be associated with an aberrant visual regulation mechanism.
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- Xiaopan Zhang
- Department of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450052, China; Henan Key Laboratory of magnetic resonance and brain function, Zhengzhou 450052, China
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- Department of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450052, China
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- Department of Ophthalmology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450052, China
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- Department of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450052, China
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- Department of Ophthalmology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450052, China
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- Department of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450052, China; Henan Key Laboratory of magnetic resonance and brain function, Zhengzhou 450052, China
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- Department of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450052, China; Henan Key Laboratory of magnetic resonance and brain function, Zhengzhou 450052, China
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- Department of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450052, China
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- Department of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450052, China.
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Lin T, Zhang X, Fields EC, Sekuler R, Gutchess A. Spatial frequency impacts perceptual and attentional ERP components across cultures. Brain Cogn 2022; 157:105834. [PMID: 34999289 PMCID: PMC8792318 DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2021.105834] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/14/2021] [Revised: 12/21/2021] [Accepted: 12/21/2021] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Culture impacts visual perception in several ways.To identify stages of perceptual processing that differ between cultures, we usedelectroencephalography measures of perceptual and attentional responses to simple visual stimuli.Gabor patches of higher or lower spatialfrequencywere presented at high contrast to 25 American and 31 East Asian participants while they were watching for the onset of aninfrequent, oddball stimulus. Region of interest and mass univariate analyses assessed how cultural background and stimuli spatial frequency affected the visual evoked response potentials. Across both groups, the Gabor of lower spatial frequency produced stronger evoked response potentials in the anterior N1 and P3 than did the higher frequency Gabor. The mass univariate analyses also revealed effects of spatial frequency, including a frontal negativity around 150 ms and a widespread posterior positivity around 300 ms. The effects of spatial frequency generally differed little across cultures; although there was some evidence for cultural differences in the P3 response to different frequencies at the Pz electrode, this effect did not emerge in the mass univariate analyses. We discuss these results in relation to those from previous studies, and explore the potential advantages of mass univariate analyses for cultural neuroscience.
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- Tong Lin
- Brandeis University, United States
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- Brandeis University, United States; Boston College, United States; Westminster College, United States
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Improving Functional Connectivity in Developmental Dyslexia through Combined Neurofeedback and Visual Training. Symmetry (Basel) 2022. [DOI: 10.3390/sym14020369] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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This study examined the effects of combined neurofeedback (NF) and visual training (VT) on children with developmental dyslexia (DD). Although NF is the first noninvasive approach to support neurological disorders, the mechanisms of its effects on the brain functional connectivity are still unclear. A key question is whether the functional connectivities of the EEG frequency networks change after the combined NF–VT training of DD children (postD). NF sessions of voluntary α/θ rhythm control were applied in a low-spatial-frequency (LSF) illusion contrast discrimination, which provides feedback with visual cues to improve the brain signals and cognitive abilities in DD children. The measures of connectivity, which are defined by small-world propensity, were sensitive to the properties of the brain electrical oscillations in the quantitative EEG-NF training. In the high-contrast LSF illusion, the z-NF reduced the α/θ scores in the frontal areas, and in the right ventral temporal, occipital–temporal, and middle occipital areas in the postD (vs. the preD) because of their suppression in the local hub θ-network and the altered global characteristics of the functional θ-frequency network. In the low-contrast condition, the z-NF stimulated increases in the α/θ scores, which induced hubs in the left-side α-frequency network of the postD, and changes in the global characteristics of the functional α-frequency network. Because of the anterior, superior, and middle temporal deficits affecting the ventral and occipital–temporal pathways, the z-NF–VT compensated for the more ventral brain regions, mainly in the left hemispheres of the postD group in the low-contrast LSF illusion. Compared to pretraining, the NF–VT increased the segregation of the α, β (low-contrast), and θ networks (high-contrast), as well as the γ2-network integration (both contrasts) after the termination of the training of the children with developmental dyslexia. The remediation compensated more for the dorsal (prefrontal, premotor, occipital–parietal connectivities) dysfunction of the θ network in the developmental dyslexia in the high-contrast LSF illusion. Our findings provide neurobehavioral evidence for the exquisite brain functional plasticity and direct effect of NF–VT on cognitive disabilities in DD children.
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Albonico A, Yu S, Corrow SL, Barton JJS. Facial identity and facial speech processing in developmental prosopagnosia. Neuropsychologia 2022; 168:108163. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2022.108163] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/12/2021] [Revised: 12/20/2021] [Accepted: 01/21/2022] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Geuzebroek AC, Woutersen K, van den Berg AV. When You Do Not Get the Whole Picture: Scene Perception After Occipital Cortex Lesions. Front Neurosci 2021; 15:716273. [PMID: 34966253 PMCID: PMC8710569 DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2021.716273] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/28/2021] [Accepted: 11/08/2021] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Background: Occipital cortex lesions (OCLs) typically result in visual field defects (VFDs) contralateral to the damage. VFDs are usually mapped with perimetry involving the detection of point targets. This, however, ignores the important role of integration of visual information across locations in many tasks of everyday life. Here, we ask whether standard perimetry can fully characterize the consequences of OCLs. We compare performance on a rapid scene discrimination task of OCL participants and healthy observers with simulated VFDs. While the healthy observers will only suffer the loss of part of the visual scene, the damage in the OCL participants may further compromise global visual processing. Methods: VFDs were mapped with Humphrey perimetry, and participants performed two rapid scene discrimination tasks. In healthy participants, the VFDs were simulated with hemi- and quadrant occlusions. Additionally, the GIST model, a computational model of scene recognition, was used to make individual predictions based on the VFDs. Results: The GIST model was able to predict the performance of controls regarding the effects of the local occlusion. Using the individual predictions of the GIST model, we can determine that the variability between the OCL participants is much larger than the extent of the VFD could account for. The OCL participants can further be categorized as performing worse, the same, or better as their VFD would predict. Conclusions: While in healthy observers the extent of the simulated occlusion accounts for their performance loss, the OCL participants' performance is not fully determined by the extent or shape of their VFD as measured with Humphrey perimetry. While some OCL participants are indeed only limited by the local occlusion of the scene, for others, the lesions compromised the visual network in a more global and disruptive way. Yet one outperformed a healthy observer, suggesting a possible adaptation to the VFD. Preliminary analysis of neuroimaging data suggests that damage to the lateral geniculate nucleus and corpus callosum might be associated with the larger disruption of rapid scene discrimination. We believe our approach offers a useful behavioral tool for investigating why similar VFDs can produce widely differing limitations in everyday life.
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- Anna C. Geuzebroek
- Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior, Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands
- School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
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- Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior, Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Radboud University Medical Center (RadboudUMC), Nijmegen, Netherlands
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- Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior, Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Radboud University Medical Center (RadboudUMC), Nijmegen, Netherlands
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Brain activation and connectivity in anorexia nervosa and body dysmorphic disorder when viewing bodies: relationships to clinical symptoms and perception of appearance. Brain Imaging Behav 2021; 15:1235-1252. [PMID: 32875486 DOI: 10.1007/s11682-020-00323-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Anorexia nervosa (AN) and body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) are characterized by distorted perception of appearance, yet no studies have directly compared the neurobiology associated with body perception. We compared AN and BDD in brain activation and connectivity in relevant networks when viewing images of others' bodies and tested their relationships with clinical symptoms and subjective appearance evaluations. We acquired fMRI data from 64 unmedicated females (20 weight-restored AN, 23 BDD, 21 controls) during a matching task using unaltered or spatial-frequency filtered photos of others' bodies. Using general linear model and independent components analyses we compared brain activation and connectivity in visual, striatal, and parietal networks and performed univariate and partial least squares multivariate analyses to investigate relationships with clinical symptoms and appearance evaluations. AN and BDD showed partially overlapping patterns of hyperconnectivity in the dorsal visual network and hypoconnectivity in parietal network compared with controls. BDD, but not AN, demonstrated hypoactivity in dorsal visual and parietal networks compared to controls. Further, there were significant activity and connectivity differences between AN and BDD in both networks. In both groups, activity and/or connectivity were associated with symptom severity and appearance ratings of others' bodies. Thus, AN and BDD demonstrate both distinct and partially-overlapping aberrant neural phenotypes involved in body processing and visually encoding global features. Nevertheless, in each disorder, aberrant activity and connectivity show relationships to clinically relevant symptoms and subjective perception. These results have implications for understanding distinct and shared pathophysiology underlying perceptual distortions of appearance and may inform future novel treatment strategies.
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Takeda A, Yamada E, Uehara T, Ogata K, Okamoto T, Tobimatsu S. Data-point-wise spatiotemporal mapping of human ventral visual areas: Use of spatial frequency/luminance-modulated chromatic faces. Neuroimage 2021; 239:118325. [PMID: 34216773 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2021.118325] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/11/2020] [Revised: 06/04/2021] [Accepted: 06/29/2021] [Indexed: 10/21/2022] Open
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Visual information involving facial identity and expression is crucial for social communication. Although the influence of facial features such as spatial frequency (SF) and luminance on face processing in visual areas has been studied extensively using grayscale stimuli, the combined effects of other features in this process have not been characterized. To determine the combined effects of different SFs and color, we created chromatic stimuli with low, high or no SF components, which bring distinct SF and color information into the ventral stream simultaneously. To obtain neural activity data with high spatiotemporal resolution we recorded face-selective responses (M170) using magnetoencephalography. We used a permutation test procedure with threshold-free cluster enhancement to assess statistical significance while resolving problems related to multiple comparisons and arbitrariness found in traditional statistical methods. We found that time windows with statistically significant threshold levels were distributed differently among the stimulus conditions. Face stimuli containing any SF components evoked M170 in the fusiform gyrus (FG), whereas a significant emotional effect on M170 was only observed with the original images. Low SF faces elicited larger activation of the FG and the inferior occipital gyrus than the original images, suggesting an interaction between low and high SF information processing. Interestingly, chromatic face stimuli without SF first activated color-selective regions and then the FG, indicating that facial color was processed according to a hierarchy in the ventral stream. These findings suggest complex effects of SFs in the presence of color information, reflected in M170, and unveil the detailed spatiotemporal dynamics of face processing in the human brain.
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- Akinori Takeda
- Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, Neurological Institute, Faculty of Medicine, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, 3-1-1 Maidashi, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka 812-8582, Japan; Research Center for Brain Communication, Research Institute, Kochi University of Technology, 185 Miyanokuchi, Tosayamada, Kami City, Kochi 782-8502, Japan.
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- Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, Neurological Institute, Faculty of Medicine, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, 3-1-1 Maidashi, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka 812-8582, Japan; Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Humanities, Kyushu University, 744 Motooka, Nishi-ku, Fukuoka 819-0395, Japan
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- Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, Neurological Institute, Faculty of Medicine, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, 3-1-1 Maidashi, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka 812-8582, Japan; Department of Neurology, IUHW Narita Hospital, 852 Hatakeda, Narita, Chiba 286-8520, Japan
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- Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, Neurological Institute, Faculty of Medicine, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, 3-1-1 Maidashi, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka 812-8582, Japan; Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy at Fukuoka, International University of Health and Welfare, 137-1 Enokidu, Okawa, Fukuoka 831-8501, Japan
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- Faculty of Arts and Science, Kyushu University, 744 Motooka, Nishi-ku, Fukuoka 819-0395, Japan; Graduate School of Systems Life Sciences, Kyushu University, 744 Motooka, Nishi-ku, Fukuoka 819-0395, Japan
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- Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, Neurological Institute, Faculty of Medicine, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, 3-1-1 Maidashi, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka 812-8582, Japan; Department of Orthoptics, Faculty of Medicine, Fukuoka International University of Health and Welfare, 3-6-40 Momochihama, Sawara-ku, Fukuoka 814-0001, Japan
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Li H, Liang Y, Yue Q, Zhang L, Ying K, Mei L. The contributions of the left fusiform subregions to successful encoding of novel words. Brain Cogn 2021; 148:105690. [PMID: 33494036 DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2021.105690] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/20/2020] [Revised: 10/19/2020] [Accepted: 01/07/2021] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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The left fusiform cortex has been identified as a crucial structure in visual word learning and memory. Nevertheless, the specific roles of the fusiform subregions in word memory and their consistency across different writings have not been elaborated. To address these questions, the present study performed two experiments, in which study-test paradigm was used. Participants' brain activity was measured with fMRI while memorizing novel logographic words in Experiment 1 and novel alphabetic words in Experiment 2. A post-scan recognition memory test was then administered to acquire the memory performance. Results showed that, neural responses in the left anterior and middle fusiform subregions during encoding were positively correlated with recognition memory of novel words. Moreover, the positive brain-behavior correlations in the left anterior and middle fusiform cortex were evident for both logographic and alphabetic writings. The present findings clarify the relationship between the left fusiform subregions and novel word memory.
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- Huiling Li
- Key Laboratory of Brain, Cognition and Education Sciences (South China Normal University), Ministry of Education, China; School of Psychology, South China Normal University, 510631 Guangzhou, China; Center for Studies of Psychological Application, South China Normal University, 510631 Guangzhou, China; Guangdong Key Laboratory of Mental Health and Cognitive Science, South China Normal University, 510631 Guangzhou, China
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- Key Laboratory of Brain, Cognition and Education Sciences (South China Normal University), Ministry of Education, China; School of Psychology, South China Normal University, 510631 Guangzhou, China; Center for Studies of Psychological Application, South China Normal University, 510631 Guangzhou, China; Guangdong Key Laboratory of Mental Health and Cognitive Science, South China Normal University, 510631 Guangzhou, China
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- Key Laboratory of Brain, Cognition and Education Sciences (South China Normal University), Ministry of Education, China; School of Psychology, South China Normal University, 510631 Guangzhou, China; Center for Studies of Psychological Application, South China Normal University, 510631 Guangzhou, China; Guangdong Key Laboratory of Mental Health and Cognitive Science, South China Normal University, 510631 Guangzhou, China
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- Key Laboratory of Brain, Cognition and Education Sciences (South China Normal University), Ministry of Education, China; School of Psychology, South China Normal University, 510631 Guangzhou, China; Center for Studies of Psychological Application, South China Normal University, 510631 Guangzhou, China; Guangdong Key Laboratory of Mental Health and Cognitive Science, South China Normal University, 510631 Guangzhou, China
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- Key Laboratory of Brain, Cognition and Education Sciences (South China Normal University), Ministry of Education, China; School of Psychology, South China Normal University, 510631 Guangzhou, China; Center for Studies of Psychological Application, South China Normal University, 510631 Guangzhou, China; Guangdong Key Laboratory of Mental Health and Cognitive Science, South China Normal University, 510631 Guangzhou, China
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- Key Laboratory of Brain, Cognition and Education Sciences (South China Normal University), Ministry of Education, China; School of Psychology, South China Normal University, 510631 Guangzhou, China; Center for Studies of Psychological Application, South China Normal University, 510631 Guangzhou, China; Guangdong Key Laboratory of Mental Health and Cognitive Science, South China Normal University, 510631 Guangzhou, China.
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Straßer T, Kurtenbach A, Langrová H, Kuehlewein L, Zrenner E. The perception threshold of the panda illusion, a particular form of 2D pulse-width-modulated halftone, correlates with visual acuity. Sci Rep 2020; 10:13095. [PMID: 32753676 PMCID: PMC7403154 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-69952-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/22/2020] [Accepted: 07/17/2020] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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To call attention to the danger of extinction of the panda bear, the Lithuanian artist Ilja Klemencov created the artwork “They can disappear”. The illustration is composed of black-and-white zigzagged lines, which form the famous panda logo of the World Wild Fund For Nature (WWF) when seen from a distance. If one is too close to the artwork, it is difficult to spot the bear, however, if one steps back or takes off one’s glasses the panda suddenly appears. This led us to ask if the ability to see the panda is related to the visual acuity of the observer and if therefore, the panda illusion can be used to assess the spatial resolution of the eye. Here we present the results of the comparison between visual acuity determined using the Landolt C and that predicted from the panda illusion in 23 healthy volunteers with artificially reduced visual acuity. Furthermore, we demonstrate that the panda illusion is based on a 2D pulse-width modulation, explain its technical history, and provide the equations required to create the illusion. Finally, we explain why the illusion indeed can be used to predict visual acuity and discuss the neural causes of its perception with best-corrected visual acuity.
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- Torsten Straßer
- Institute for Ophthalmic Research, Centre for Ophthalmology, University of Tuebingen, Elfriede-Aulhorn-Straße 7, 72076, Tuebingen, Germany.
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- Institute for Ophthalmic Research, Centre for Ophthalmology, University of Tuebingen, Elfriede-Aulhorn-Straße 7, 72076, Tuebingen, Germany
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- Institute for Ophthalmic Research, Centre for Ophthalmology, University of Tuebingen, Elfriede-Aulhorn-Straße 7, 72076, Tuebingen, Germany.,University Eye Hospital, Hradec Králové, Czech Republic
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- Institute for Ophthalmic Research, Centre for Ophthalmology, University of Tuebingen, Elfriede-Aulhorn-Straße 7, 72076, Tuebingen, Germany.,University Eye Hospital Tuebingen, Elfriede-Aulhorn-Straße 5, 72076, Tuebingen, Germany
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- Institute for Ophthalmic Research, Centre for Ophthalmology, University of Tuebingen, Elfriede-Aulhorn-Straße 7, 72076, Tuebingen, Germany.,Werner Reichardt Centre for Integrative Neuroscience (CIN), Otfried-Mueller-Str. 25, 72076, Tuebingen, Germany
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Tracking the completion of parts into whole objects: Retinotopic activation in response to illusory figures in the lateral occipital complex. Neuroimage 2020; 207:116426. [PMID: 31794856 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2019.116426] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/17/2019] [Revised: 11/26/2019] [Accepted: 11/30/2019] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Illusory figures demonstrate the visual system's ability to integrate separate parts into coherent, whole objects. The present study was performed to track the neuronal object construction process in human observers, by incrementally manipulating the grouping strength within a given configuration until the emergence of a whole-object representation. Two tasks were employed: First, in the spatial localization task, object completion could facilitate performance and was task-relevant, whereas it was irrelevant in the second, luminance discrimination task. Concurrent functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) used spatial localizers to locate brain regions representing task-critical illusory-figure parts to investigate whether the step-wise object construction process would modulate neural activity in these localized brain regions. The results revealed that both V1 and the lateral occipital complex (LOC, with sub-regions LO1 and LO2) were involved in Kanizsa figure processing. However, completion-specific activations were found predominantly in LOC, where neural activity exhibited a modulation in accord with the configuration's grouping strength, whether or not the configuration was relevant to performing the task at hand. Moreover, right LOC activations were confined to LO2 and responded primarily to surface and shape completions, whereas left LOC exhibited activations in both LO1 and LO2 and was related to encoding shape structures with more detail. Together, these results demonstrate that various grouping properties within a visual scene are integrated automatically in LOC, with sub-regions located in different hemispheres specializing in the component sub-processes that render completed objects.
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Analysis of the Structural-Functional Organization of a Counting Task in the Context of a Study of Executive Functions. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2019. [DOI: 10.1007/s11055-019-00789-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Vaziri-Pashkam M, Taylor J, Xu Y. Spatial Frequency Tolerant Visual Object Representations in the Human Ventral and Dorsal Visual Processing Pathways. J Cogn Neurosci 2018; 31:49-63. [PMID: 30188780 DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_01335] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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Primate ventral and dorsal visual pathways both contain visual object representations. Dorsal regions receive more input from magnocellular system while ventral regions receive inputs from both magnocellular and parvocellular systems. Due to potential differences in the spatial sensitivites of manocellular and parvocellular systems, object representations in ventral and dorsal regions may differ in how they represent visual input from different spatial scales. To test this prediction, we asked observers to view blocks of images from six object categories, shown in full spectrum, high spatial frequency (SF), or low SF. We found robust object category decoding in all SF conditions as well as SF decoding in nearly all the early visual, ventral, and dorsal regions examined. Cross-SF decoding further revealed that object category representations in all regions exhibited substantial tolerance across the SF components. No difference between ventral and dorsal regions was found in their preference for the different SF components. Further comparisons revealed that, whereas differences in the SF component separated object category representations in early visual areas, such a separation was much smaller in downstream ventral and dorsal regions. In those regions, variations among the object categories played a more significant role in shaping the visual representational structures. Our findings show that ventral and dorsal regions are similar in how they represent visual input from different spatial scales and argue against a dissociation of these regions based on differential sensitivity to different SFs.
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- Harvard University.,Yale University
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Ksander JC, Paige LE, Johndro HA, Gutchess AH. Cultural specialization of visual cortex. Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci 2018; 13:709-718. [PMID: 29897559 PMCID: PMC6121144 DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsy039] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/21/2017] [Revised: 05/17/2018] [Accepted: 05/29/2018] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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A growing body of evidence suggests culture influences how individuals perceive the world around them. This study investigates whether these cultural differences extend to a simple object viewing task and visual cortex by examining voxel pattern representations with multi-voxel pattern analysis (MVPA). During functional magnetic resonance imaging scanning, 20 East Asian and 20 American participants viewed photos of everyday items, equated for familiarity and conceptual agreement across cultures. Whole brain searchlight mapping with non-parametric statistical evaluation tested whether these stimuli evoked multi-voxel patterns that were distinct between cultural groups. We found that participants' cultural identities were successfully predicted from stimuli representations in visual cortex Brodmann areas 18 and 19. This result demonstrates culturally specialized visual cortex during a basic perceptual task ubiquitous to everyday life.
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- John C Ksander
- Department of Psychology, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02453, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02453, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02453, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02453, USA
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Zinchenko O, Yaple ZA, Arsalidou M. Brain Responses to Dynamic Facial Expressions: A Normative Meta-Analysis. Front Hum Neurosci 2018; 12:227. [PMID: 29922137 PMCID: PMC5996092 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2018.00227] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/05/2018] [Accepted: 05/16/2018] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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Identifying facial expressions is crucial for social interactions. Functional neuroimaging studies show that a set of brain areas, such as the fusiform gyrus and amygdala, become active when viewing emotional facial expressions. The majority of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies investigating face perception typically employ static images of faces. However, studies that use dynamic facial expressions (e.g., videos) are accumulating and suggest that a dynamic presentation may be more sensitive and ecologically valid for investigating faces. By using quantitative fMRI meta-analysis the present study examined concordance of brain regions associated with viewing dynamic facial expressions. We analyzed data from 216 participants that participated in 14 studies, which reported coordinates for 28 experiments. Our analysis revealed bilateral fusiform and middle temporal gyri, left amygdala, left declive of the cerebellum and the right inferior frontal gyrus. These regions are discussed in terms of their relation to models of face processing.
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- Oksana Zinchenko
- Centre for Cognition and Decision Making, Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia
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- Centre for Cognition and Decision Making, Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia.,Department of Psychology, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
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- Department of Psychology, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia.,Department of Psychology, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada
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Mirzajani A, Ghorbani M, Rasuli B, Mahmoud-Pashazadeh A. Effect of induced high myopia on functional MRI signal changes. Phys Med 2017; 37:32-36. [PMID: 28535912 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejmp.2017.04.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/11/2016] [Revised: 03/19/2017] [Accepted: 04/03/2017] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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PURPOSE The current study evaluated the effect of lens-induced high myopia (IHM) on the activity of the occipital visual cortex during two visual stimuli presentations to the subjects. This was done by measuring the Blood Oxygenation Level Dependent (BOLD) signal using functional MRI (fMRI). METHODS BOLD contrast fMRI was performed with a 1.5T MRI scanner on 12 emmetropic subjects (refractive error <±0.25Diopter) with no history of neurologic disorder. IHM conditions were applied to subjects by three convex lenses of +5D, +7D and +10D. Visual stimuli with 0.34cpd and 1.84cpd spatial frequencies (SF) were presented as a block paradigm to the participants in three IHM states and normal vision state during fMRI data acquisition. Resultant fMRI data were compared among different refractive states. RESULTS Data analysis showed that IHM did not cause a significant change in the visual cortex activity throughout the presentation of 0.34cpd SF visual stimulus and BOLD signal intensity remained approximately constant (p=0.17). Although, fMRI responses to visual stimuli with spatial frequency of 1.84cpd demonstrated that visual cortex activity was significantly reduced in IHM states compared to normal vision (p=0.01), the results showed no significant differences between three different values of IHM. CONCLUSIONS This study shows severe blurring caused by lens induced high myopia can decrease BOLD signal intensity depending on the visual stimulus pattern details. However in the low and moderate range of spatial frequencies, blur increment from +5D up to +10D is not associated with further reduction in the BOLD signal of the occipital visual cortex.
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- Ali Mirzajani
- Optometry Department, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Radiology Technology Department, Behbahan Faculty of Medical Sciences, Behbahan, Iran.
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- Radiology Technology Department, Behbahan Faculty of Medical Sciences, Behbahan, Iran
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- The Persian Gulf Nuclear Medicine Research Center, Bushehr University of Medical Sciences, Bushehr, Iran
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Paige LE, Ksander JC, Johndro HA, Gutchess AH. Cross-cultural differences in the neural correlates of specific and general recognition. Cortex 2017; 91:250-261. [PMID: 28256199 PMCID: PMC5580400 DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2017.01.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/29/2016] [Revised: 10/25/2016] [Accepted: 01/23/2017] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Research suggests that culture influences how people perceive the world, which extends to memory specificity, or how much perceptual detail is remembered. The present study investigated cross-cultural differences (Americans vs East Asians) at the time of encoding in the neural correlates of specific versus general memory formation. Participants encoded photos of everyday items in the scanner and 48 h later completed a surprise recognition test. The recognition test consisted of same (i.e., previously seen in scanner), similar (i.e., same name, different features), or new photos (i.e., items not previously seen in scanner). For Americans compared to East Asians, we predicted greater activation in the hippocampus and right fusiform for specific memory at recognition, as these regions were implicated previously in encoding perceptual details. Results revealed that East Asians activated the left fusiform and left hippocampus more than Americans for specific versus general memory. Follow-up analyses ruled out alternative explanations of retrieval difficulty and familiarity for this pattern of cross-cultural differences at encoding. Results overall suggest that culture should be considered as another individual difference that affects memory specificity and modulates neural regions underlying these processes.
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Chokron S, Perez C, Peyrin C. Behavioral Consequences and Cortical Reorganization in Homonymous Hemianopia. Front Syst Neurosci 2016; 10:57. [PMID: 27445717 PMCID: PMC4923162 DOI: 10.3389/fnsys.2016.00057] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/29/2016] [Accepted: 06/13/2016] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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The most common visual defect to follow a lesion of the retrochiasmal pathways is homonymous hemianopia (HH), whereby, in each eye, patients are blind to the contralesional visual field. From a behavioral perspective, in addition to exhibiting a severe deficit in their contralesional visual field, hemianopic patients can also present implicit residual capacities, now usually referred to collectively as blindsight. It was recently demonstrated that HH patients can also suffer from a subtle deficit in their ipsilesional visual field, called sightblindness (the reverse case of blindsight). Furthermore, the nature of the visual deficit in the contralesional and ipsilesional visual fields, as well as the pattern of functional reorganization in the occipital lobe of HH patients after stroke, all appear to depend on the lesion side. In addition to their contralesional and ipsilesional visual deficits, and to their residual capacities, HH patients can also experience visual hallucinations in their blind field, the physiopathological mechanisms of which remain poorly understood. Herein we review blindsight in terms of its better-known aspects as well as its less-studied clinical signs such as sightblindness, hemispheric specialization and visual hallucinations. We also discuss the implications of recent experimental findings for rehabilitation of visual field defects in hemianopic patients.
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- Sylvie Chokron
- Unité Fonctionnelle Vision and Cognition, Fondation Ophtalmologique RothschildParis, France; UMR 8242, Laboratoire de Psychologie de la Perception, CNRS and Université Paris-DescartesParis, France
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- Unité Fonctionnelle Vision and Cognition, Fondation Ophtalmologique RothschildParis, France; UMR 8242, Laboratoire de Psychologie de la Perception, CNRS and Université Paris-DescartesParis, France
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- UMR 5105, CNRS, Laboratoire de Psychologie et NeuroCognition, Université Grenoble Alpes Grenoble, France
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Moody TD, Sasaki MA, Bohon C, Strober MA, Bookheimer SY, Sheen CL, Feusner JD. Functional connectivity for face processing in individuals with body dysmorphic disorder and anorexia nervosa. Psychol Med 2015; 45:3491-3503. [PMID: 26219399 PMCID: PMC4879882 DOI: 10.1017/s0033291715001397] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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BACKGROUND Body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) and anorexia nervosa (AN) are both characterized by distorted perception of appearance. Previous studies in BDD suggest abnormalities in visual processing of own and others' faces, but no study has examined visual processing of faces in AN, nor directly compared the two disorders in this respect. METHOD We collected functional magnetic resonance imaging data on 60 individuals of equivalent age and gender in each of three groups--20 BDD, 20 weight-restored AN, and 20 healthy controls (HC)--while they viewed images of others' faces that contained only high or low spatial frequency information (HSF or LSF). We tested hypotheses about functional connectivity within specialized sub-networks for HSF and LSF visual processing, using psychophysiological interaction analyses. RESULTS The BDD group demonstrated increased functional connectivity compared to HC between left anterior occipital face area and right fusiform face area (FFA) for LSF faces, which was associated with symptom severity. Both BDD and AN groups had increased connectivity compared to HC between FFA and precuneous/posterior cingulate gyrus for LSF faces, and decreased connectivity between FFA and insula. In addition, we found that LSF connectivity between FFA and posterior cingulate gyrus was significantly associated with thoughts about own appearance in AN. CONCLUSIONS Results suggest similar abnormal functional connectivity within higher-order systems for face processing in BDD and AN, but distinct abnormal connectivity patterns within occipito-temporal visual networks. Findings may have implications for understanding relationships between these disorders, and the pathophysiology underlying perceptual distortions.
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- T. D. Moody
- Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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Roberts DJ, Lambon Ralph MA, Kim E, Tainturier MJ, Beeson PM, Rapcsak SZ, Woollams AM. Processing deficits for familiar and novel faces in patients with left posterior fusiform lesions. Cortex 2015; 72:79-96. [PMID: 25837867 PMCID: PMC4643682 DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2015.02.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/23/2014] [Revised: 01/30/2015] [Accepted: 02/03/2015] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Pure alexia (PA) arises from damage to the left posterior fusiform gyrus (pFG) and the striking reading disorder that defines this condition has meant that such patients are often cited as evidence for the specialisation of this region to processing of written words. There is, however, an alternative view that suggests this region is devoted to processing of high acuity foveal input, which is particularly salient for complex visual stimuli like letter strings. Previous reports have highlighted disrupted processing of non-linguistic visual stimuli after damage to the left pFG, both for familiar and unfamiliar objects and also for novel faces. This study explored the nature of face processing deficits in patients with left pFG damage. Identification of famous faces was found to be compromised in both expressive and receptive tasks. Discrimination of novel faces was also impaired, particularly for those that varied in terms of second-order spacing information, and this deficit was most apparent for the patients with the more severe reading deficits. Interestingly, discrimination of faces that varied in terms of feature identity was considerably better in these patients and it was performance in this condition that was related to the size of the length effects shown in reading. This finding complements functional imaging studies showing left pFG activation for faces varying only in spacing and frontal activation for faces varying only on features. These results suggest that the sequential part-based processing strategy that promotes the length effect in the reading of these patients also allows them to discriminate between faces on the basis of feature identity, but processing of second-order configural information is most compromised due to their left pFG lesion. This study supports a view in which the left pFG is specialised for processing of high acuity foveal visual information that supports processing of both words and faces.
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- Daniel J Roberts
- Research Centre in Brain and Behaviour, Liverpool John Moores University, UK
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- Neuroscience and Aphasia Research Unit, School of Psychological Sciences, University of Manchester, UK
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- Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology, University of Alberta, Canada
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- Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, University of Arizona, USA
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- Department of Neurology, University of Arizona, USA; Neurology Section, Southern Arizona VA Health Care System, Tucson, AZ, USA
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- Neuroscience and Aphasia Research Unit, School of Psychological Sciences, University of Manchester, UK.
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Kauffmann L, Ramanoël S, Peyrin C. The neural bases of spatial frequency processing during scene perception. Front Integr Neurosci 2014; 8:37. [PMID: 24847226 PMCID: PMC4019851 DOI: 10.3389/fnint.2014.00037] [Citation(s) in RCA: 110] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/16/2014] [Accepted: 04/19/2014] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Theories on visual perception agree that scenes are processed in terms of spatial frequencies. Low spatial frequencies (LSF) carry coarse information whereas high spatial frequencies (HSF) carry fine details of the scene. However, how and where spatial frequencies are processed within the brain remain unresolved questions. The present review addresses these issues and aims to identify the cerebral regions differentially involved in low and high spatial frequency processing, and to clarify their attributes during scene perception. Results from a number of behavioral and neuroimaging studies suggest that spatial frequency processing is lateralized in both hemispheres, with the right and left hemispheres predominantly involved in the categorization of LSF and HSF scenes, respectively. There is also evidence that spatial frequency processing is retinotopically mapped in the visual cortex. HSF scenes (as opposed to LSF) activate occipital areas in relation to foveal representations, while categorization of LSF scenes (as opposed to HSF) activates occipital areas in relation to more peripheral representations. Concomitantly, a number of studies have demonstrated that LSF information may reach high-order areas rapidly, allowing an initial coarse parsing of the visual scene, which could then be sent back through feedback into the occipito-temporal cortex to guide finer HSF-based analysis. Finally, the review addresses spatial frequency processing within scene-selective regions areas of the occipito-temporal cortex.
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- Louise Kauffmann
- University Grenoble Alpes LPNC, Grenoble, France ; CNRS, LPNC, Université Pierre Mendès France Grenoble, France
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- University Grenoble Alpes LPNC, Grenoble, France ; CNRS, LPNC, Université Pierre Mendès France Grenoble, France
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- University Grenoble Alpes LPNC, Grenoble, France ; CNRS, LPNC, Université Pierre Mendès France Grenoble, France
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Musel B, Bordier C, Dojat M, Pichat C, Chokron S, Le Bas JF, Peyrin C. Retinotopic and lateralized processing of spatial frequencies in human visual cortex during scene categorization. J Cogn Neurosci 2013; 25:1315-31. [PMID: 23574583 DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_00397] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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Using large natural scenes filtered in spatial frequencies, we aimed to demonstrate that spatial frequency processing could not only be retinotopically mapped but could also be lateralized in both hemispheres. For this purpose, participants performed a categorization task using large black and white photographs of natural scenes (indoors vs. outdoors, with a visual angle of 24° × 18°) filtered in low spatial frequencies (LSF), high spatial frequencies (HSF), and nonfiltered scenes, in block-designed fMRI recording sessions. At the group level, the comparison between the spatial frequency content of scenes revealed first that, compared with HSF, LSF scene categorization elicited activation in the anterior half of the calcarine fissures linked to the peripheral visual field, whereas, compared with LSF, HSF scene categorization elicited activation in the posterior part of the occipital lobes, which are linked to the fovea, according to the retinotopic property of visual areas. At the individual level, functional activations projected on retinotopic maps revealed that LSF processing was mapped in the anterior part of V1, whereas HSF processing was mapped in the posterior and ventral part of V2, V3, and V4. Moreover, at the group level, direct interhemispheric comparisons performed on the same fMRI data highlighted a right-sided occipito-temporal predominance for LSF processing and a left-sided temporal cortex predominance for HSF processing, in accordance with hemispheric specialization theories. By using suitable method of analysis on the same data, our results enabled us to demonstrate for the first time that spatial frequencies processing is mapped retinotopically and lateralized in human occipital cortex.
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Dos Santos NA, Andrade SM, Fernandez Calvo B. Detection of spatial frequency in brain-damaged patients: influence of hemispheric asymmetries and hemineglect. Front Hum Neurosci 2013; 7:92. [PMID: 23576967 PMCID: PMC3615192 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00092] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/30/2012] [Accepted: 03/04/2013] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Hemispheric specialization for spatial frequency processing was investigated by measuring the contrast sensitivity curves of sine-wave gratings in 30 left or right brain-damaged patients using different spatial frequencies compared with healthy participants. The results showed that left brain-damaged patients were selectively impaired in processing high frequencies, whereas right brain-damaged patients were more impaired in the processing low frequencies, regardless of the presence of visuo-spatial neglect. These visual processing results can be interpreted in terms of spatial frequency discrimination, with both hemispheres participating in this process in different ways.
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- Natanael A Dos Santos
- Laboratory of Perception, Neuroscience and Behavior, Department of Psychology, Federal University of Paraíba João Pessoa, Brazil
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Nonlinear relationships between anxiety and visual processing of own and others' faces in body dysmorphic disorder. Psychiatry Res 2012; 204:132-9. [PMID: 23137801 PMCID: PMC3518613 DOI: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2012.09.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/14/2011] [Revised: 08/25/2012] [Accepted: 09/16/2012] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Individuals with body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) often experience anxiety, as well as perceptual distortions of appearance. Anxiety has previously been found to impact visual processing. This study therefore tested the relationship between anxiety and visual processing of faces in BDD. Medication-free participants with BDD (N=17) and healthy controls (N=16) viewed photographs of their face and a familiar face during functional magnetic resonance imaging. Blood-oxygen-level dependent signal changes in regions involved in anxiety (amygdala) and detailed visual processing (ventral visual stream-VVS) were regressed on anxiety scores. Significant linear relationships between activity in the amygdala and VVS were found in both healthy controls and individuals with BDD. There was a trend of a quadratic relationship between anxiety and activity in the right VVS and a linear relationship between anxiety and activity in the left VVS for the BDD sample, and this was stronger for own-face stimuli versus familiar-face. Results suggest that anxiety symptoms in BDD may be associated with activity in systems responsible for detailed visual processing. This may have clinical implications related to heightened perceptual distortions associated with anxiety.
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Leow AD, Zhan L, Arienzo D, GadElkarim JJ, Zhang AF, Ajilore O, Kumar A, Thompson PM, Feusner JD. Hierarchical structural mapping for globally optimized estimation of functional networks. MEDICAL IMAGE COMPUTING AND COMPUTER-ASSISTED INTERVENTION : MICCAI ... INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MEDICAL IMAGE COMPUTING AND COMPUTER-ASSISTED INTERVENTION 2012; 15:228-36. [PMID: 23286053 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-33418-4_29] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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In this study, we propose a framework to map functional MRI (fMRI) activation signals using DTI-tractography. This framework, which we term functional by structural hierarchical (FSH) mapping, models the regional origin of fMRI brain activation to construct "N-step reachable structural maps". Linear combinations of these N-step reachable maps are then used to predict the observed fMRI signals. Additionally, we constructed a utilization matrix, which numerically estimates whether the inclusion of a specific structural connection better predicts fMRI, using simulated annealing. We applied this framework to a visual fMRI task in a sample of body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) subjects and comparable healthy controls. Group differences were inferred by comparing the observed utilization differences against 10,000 permutations under the null hypothesis. Results revealed that BDD subjects under-utilized several key local connections in the visual system, which may help explain previously reported fMRI findings and further elucidate the underlying pathophysiology of BDD.
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- Alex D Leow
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL, USA.
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BACKGROUND Individuals with body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) may have perceptual distortions for their appearance. Previous studies suggest imbalances in detailed relative to configural/holistic visual processing when viewing faces. No study has investigated the neural correlates of processing non-symptom-related stimuli. The objective of this study was to determine whether individuals with BDD have abnormal patterns of brain activation when viewing non-face/non-body object stimuli. METHOD Fourteen medication-free participants with DSM-IV BDD and 14 healthy controls participated. We performed functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) while participants matched photographs of houses that were unaltered, contained only high spatial frequency (HSF, high detail) information or only low spatial frequency (LSF, low detail) information. The primary outcome was group differences in blood oxygen level-dependent (BOLD) signal changes. RESULTS The BDD group showed lower activity in the parahippocampal gyrus, lingual gyrus and precuneus for LSF images. There were greater activations in medial prefrontal regions for HSF images, although no significant differences when compared to a low-level baseline. Greater symptom severity was associated with lower activity in the dorsal occipital cortex and ventrolateral prefrontal cortex for normal spatial frequency (NSF) and HSF images. CONCLUSIONS Individuals with BDD have abnormal brain activation patterns when viewing objects. Hypoactivity in visual association areas for configural and holistic (low detail) elements and abnormal allocation of prefrontal systems for details are consistent with a model of imbalances in global versus local processing. This may occur not only for appearance but also for general stimuli unrelated to their symptoms.
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- J D Feusner
- Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
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Woodhead ZVJ, Wise RJS, Sereno M, Leech R. Dissociation of sensitivity to spatial frequency in word and face preferential areas of the fusiform gyrus. Cereb Cortex 2011; 21:2307-12. [PMID: 21368088 PMCID: PMC3169659 DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhr008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023] Open
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Different cortical regions within the ventral occipitotemporal junction have been reported to show preferential responses to particular objects. Thus, it is argued that there is evidence for a left-lateralized visual word form area and a right-lateralized fusiform face area, but the unique specialization of these areas remains controversial. Words are characterized by greater power in the high spatial frequency (SF) range, whereas faces comprise a broader range of high and low frequencies. We investigated how these high-order visual association areas respond to simple sine-wave gratings that varied in SF. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging, we demonstrated lateralization of activity that was concordant with the low-level visual property of words and faces; left occipitotemporal cortex is more strongly activated by high than by low SF gratings, whereas the right occipitotemporal cortex responded more to low than high spatial frequencies. Therefore, the SF of a visual stimulus may bias the lateralization of processing irrespective of its higher order properties.
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Buchanan BG, Rossell SL, Castle DJ. Body dysmorphic disorder: a review of nosology, cognition and neurobiology. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2011. [DOI: 10.2217/npy.10.3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Morawetz C, Baudewig J, Treue S, Dechent P. Effects of spatial frequency and location of fearful faces on human amygdala activity. Brain Res 2011; 1371:87-99. [DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2010.10.110] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/18/2009] [Revised: 10/15/2010] [Accepted: 10/31/2010] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Callaert DV, Vercauteren K, Peeters R, Tam F, Graham S, Swinnen SP, Sunaert S, Wenderoth N. Hemispheric asymmetries of motor versus nonmotor processes during (visuo)motor control. Hum Brain Mapp 2010; 32:1311-29. [PMID: 20681013 DOI: 10.1002/hbm.21110] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/30/2009] [Revised: 05/11/2010] [Accepted: 05/15/2010] [Indexed: 11/11/2022] Open
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Language and certain aspects of motor control are typically served by the left hemisphere, whereas visuospatial and attentional control are lateralized to the right. Here a (visuo)motor tracing task was used to identify hemispheric lateralization beyond the general, contralateral organization of the motor system. Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) was applied in 40 male right-handers (19-30 yrs) during line tracing with dominant and nondominant hand, with and without visual guidance. Results revealed a network of areas activating more in the right than left hemisphere, irrespective of the effector. Inferior portions of frontal gyrus and parietal lobe overlapped largely with a previously described ventral attention network responding to unexpected or behaviourally relevant stimuli. This demonstrates a hitherto unreported functionality of this circuit that also seems to activate when spatial information is continuously exploited to adapt motor behaviour. Second, activation of left dorsal premotor and postcentral regions during tracing with the nondominant left hand was more pronounced than that in their right hemisphere homologues during tracing with the dominant right hand. These activation asymmetries of motor areas ipsilateral to the moving hand could not be explained by asymmetries in skill performance, the degree of handedness, or interhemispheric interactions. The latter was measured by a double-pulse transcranial magnetic stimulation paradigm, whereby a conditioning stimulus was applied over one hemisphere and a test stimulus over the other. We propose that the left premotor areas contain action representations strongly related to movement implementation which are also accessed during movements performed with the left body side.
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- Dorothée V Callaert
- Motor Control Laboratory, Research Center for Movement Control and Neuroplasticity, Biomedical Sciences, KU Leuven, Belgium
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Goffaux V, Peters J, Haubrechts J, Schiltz C, Jansma B, Goebel R. From coarse to fine? Spatial and temporal dynamics of cortical face processing. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2010; 21:467-76. [PMID: 20576927 PMCID: PMC3020585 DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhq112] [Citation(s) in RCA: 106] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/04/2022]
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Primary vision segregates information along 2 main dimensions: orientation and spatial frequency (SF). An important question is how this primary visual information is integrated to support high-level representations. It is generally assumed that the information carried by different SF is combined following a coarse-to-fine sequence. We directly addressed this assumption by investigating how the network of face-preferring cortical regions processes distinct SF over time. Face stimuli were flashed during 75, 150, or 300 ms and masked. They were filtered to preserve low SF (LSF), middle SF (MSF), or high SF (HSF). Most face-preferring regions robustly responded to coarse LSF, face information in early stages of visual processing (i.e., until 75 ms of exposure duration). LSF processing decayed as a function of exposure duration (mostly until 150 ms). In contrast, the processing of fine HSF, face information became more robust over time in the bilateral fusiform face regions and in the right occipital face area. The present evidence suggests the coarse-to-fine strategy as a plausible modus operandi in high-level visual cortex.
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- Valerie Goffaux
- Educational Measurement and Applied Cognitive Science Unit and Faculté des Lettres, des Sciences Humaines, des Arts et des Sciences de l'Education, University of Luxembourg, L-7210 Walferdange, Luxembourg.
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Visual guidance modulates hemispheric asymmetries during an interlimb coordination task. Neuroimage 2010; 50:1566-77. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2010.01.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/07/2009] [Revised: 01/04/2010] [Accepted: 01/06/2010] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Chai XJ, Ofen N, Jacobs LF, Gabrieli JDE. Scene complexity: influence on perception, memory, and development in the medial temporal lobe. Front Hum Neurosci 2010; 4:21. [PMID: 20224820 PMCID: PMC2835514 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2010.00021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/01/2009] [Accepted: 02/16/2010] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Regions in the medial temporal lobe (MTL) and prefrontal cortex (PFC) are involved in memory formation for scenes in both children and adults. The development in children and adolescents of successful memory encoding for scenes has been associated with increased activation in PFC, but not MTL, regions. However, evidence suggests that a functional subregion of the MTL that supports scene perception, located in the parahippocampal gyrus (PHG), goes through a prolonged maturation process. Here we tested the hypothesis that maturation of scene perception supports the development of memory for complex scenes. Scenes were characterized by their levels of complexity defined by the number of unique object categories depicted in the scene. Recognition memory improved with age, in participants ages 8–24, for high-, but not low-, complexity scenes. High-complexity compared to low-complexity scenes activated a network of regions including the posterior PHG. The difference in activations for high- versus low-complexity scenes increased with age in the right posterior PHG. Finally, activations in right posterior PHG were associated with age-related increases in successful memory formation for high-, but not low-, complexity scenes. These results suggest that functional maturation of the right posterior PHG plays a critical role in the development of enduring long-term recollection for high-complexity scenes.
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- Xiaoqian J Chai
- Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA, USA
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Flevaris AV, Bentin S, Robertson LC. Local or global? Attentional selection of spatial frequencies binds shapes to hierarchical levels. Psychol Sci 2010; 21:424-31. [PMID: 20424080 DOI: 10.1177/0956797609359909] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Contrary to the traditional view that shapes and their hierarchical level (local or global) are a priori integrated in perception, recent evidence suggests that the identity of a shape and its level are encoded independently, implying the need for shape-level binding to account for normal perception. What is the binding mechanism in this case? Using hierarchically arranged letter shapes, we obtained evidence that the left hemisphere has a preference for binding shapes to the local level, whereas the right hemisphere has a preference for binding shapes to the global level. More important, binding is modulated by attentional selection of higher or lower spatial frequencies. Attention to higher spatial frequencies facilitated subsequent binding by the left hemisphere of elements to the local level, whereas attention to lower spatial frequencies facilitated subsequent binding by the right hemisphere of elements to the global level.
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- Anastasia V Flevaris
- Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, 3210 Tolman Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720-1650, USA.
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Berman MG, Park J, Gonzalez R, Polk TA, Gehrke A, Knaffla S, Jonides J. Evaluating functional localizers: the case of the FFA. Neuroimage 2009; 50:56-71. [PMID: 20025980 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2009.12.024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 71] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/04/2009] [Revised: 10/27/2009] [Accepted: 12/04/2009] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Functional localizers are routinely used in neuroimaging studies to test hypotheses about the function of specific brain areas. The specific tasks and stimuli used to localize particular regions vary widely from study to study even when the same cortical region is targeted. Thus, it is important to ask whether task and stimulus changes lead to differences in localization or whether localization procedures are largely immune to differences in tasks and contrasting stimuli. We present two experiments and a literature review that explore whether face localizer tasks yield differential localization in the fusiform gyrus as a function of task and contrasting stimuli. We tested standard localization tasks-passive viewing, 1-back, and 2-back memory tests--and did not find differences in localization based on task. We did, however, find differences in the extent, strength and patterns/reliabilities of the activation in the fusiform gyrus based on comparison stimuli (faces vs. houses compared to faces vs. scrambled stimuli).
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- Marc G Berman
- Department of Psychology, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1043, USA.
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de Gardelle V, Kouider S. How spatial frequencies and visual awareness interact during face processing. Psychol Sci 2009; 21:58-66. [PMID: 20424024 DOI: 10.1177/0956797609354064] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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In vision, high and low spatial frequencies have been dissociated at the cognitive and neural levels. Usually, high spatial frequency (HSF) is associated with slow analysis along the ventral cortical stream, and low spatial frequency (LSF) is associated with fast and automatic processing. These findings suggest a specific relation between spatial-frequency processing and visual awareness. We investigated this issue using masked-face priming with hybrid prime images of variable visibility. We found subliminal priming for both LSF and HSF information, along with a strong interaction between spatial frequency and visibility: HSF-related priming increased with stimulus visibility, whereas LSF influences remained unchanged. We argue that the results limit the validity of the coarse-to-fine model of vision and of models equating ventral-stream activity with perceptual awareness. Interpreting our results in light of the diagnostic approach suggests a close relation between awareness and diagnosticity.
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- Vincent de Gardelle
- Laboratoire des Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique, CNRS/EHESS/DEC-ENS, Paris, France.
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Mercure E, Dick F, Halit H, Kaufman J, Johnson MH. Differential Lateralization for Words and Faces: Category or Psychophysics? J Cogn Neurosci 2008; 20:2070-87. [DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2008.20137] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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This set of three experiments assessed the influence of different psychophysical factors on the lateralization of the N170 event-related potential (ERP) component to words and faces. In all experiments, words elicited a left-lateralized N170, whereas faces elicited a right-lateralized or nonlateralized N170 depending on presentation conditions. Experiment 1 showed that lateralization for words (but not for faces) was influenced by spatial frequency. Experiment 2 showed that stimulus presentation time influenced N170 lateralization independently of spatial frequency composition. Finally, Experiment 3 showed that stimulus size and resolution did not influence N170 lateralization, but did influence N170 amplitude, albeit differentially for words and faces. These findings suggest that differential lateralization for words and faces, at least as measured by the N170, is influenced by spatial frequency (words), stimulus presentation time, and category.
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- 1Birkbeck, University of London
- 2Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
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Dien J. A tale of two recognition systems: implications of the fusiform face area and the visual word form area for lateralized object recognition models. Neuropsychologia 2008; 47:1-16. [PMID: 18805434 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2008.08.024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 90] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/12/2007] [Revised: 08/07/2008] [Accepted: 08/28/2008] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Two areas of current intense interest in the neuroimaging literature are that of the visual word form area (VWFA) and of the fusiform face area (FFA) and their roles in word and face perception, respectively. These two areas are of particular relevance to laterality research because visual word identification and face identification have long been shown to be especially lateralized to the left hemisphere and the right hemisphere, respectively. This review therefore seeks to evaluate their significance for the broader understanding of lateralization of object recognition. A multi-level model of lateralized object recognition is proposed based on a combination of behavioral and neuroimaging findings. Rather than seek to characterize hemispheric asymmetries according to a single principle (e.g., serial-parallel), it is suggested that current observations can be understood in terms of three asymmetric levels of processing, using the framework of the Janus model of hemispheric function. It is suggested that the left hemisphere represents features using an abstract-category code whereas the RH utilizes a specific-exemplar code. The relationships between these features are also coded asymmetrically, with the LH relying on associative co-occurrence values and the RH relying on spatial metrics. Finally, the LH controlled selection system focuses on isolating features and the RH focuses on conjoining features. It is suggested that each hemisphere utilizes efficient (apparently parallel) processing when stimuli are congruent with its preferred processing style and inefficient (apparently serial) processing when they are not, resulting in the typical left-lateralization for orthographic analysis and right-lateralization for face analysis.
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- Joseph Dien
- Center for Birth Defects, 501 South Preston Street, Suite 301, University of Louisville, Health Sciences Campus, Louisville, KY 40292, United States.
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Looking both ways through time: The Janus model of lateralized cognition. Brain Cogn 2008; 67:292-323. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2008.02.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/23/2007] [Revised: 01/22/2008] [Accepted: 02/01/2008] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Melis C, Baas JM, Kenemans JL, Mangun GR. A decomposition of electrocortical activity as a function of spatial frequency: A weighted multidimensional scaling analysis. Brain Res 2008; 1214:116-26. [DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2008.01.098] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/18/2007] [Revised: 01/24/2008] [Accepted: 01/26/2008] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Yamazaki Y, Aust U, Huber L, Hausmann M, Güntürkün O. Lateralized cognition: Asymmetrical and complementary strategies of pigeons during discrimination of the “human concept”. Cognition 2007; 104:315-44. [PMID: 16905127 DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2006.07.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 82] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/12/2005] [Revised: 07/04/2006] [Accepted: 07/04/2006] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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This study was aimed at revealing which cognitive processes are lateralized in visual categorizations of "humans" by pigeons. To this end, pigeons were trained to categorize pictures of humans and then tested binocularly or monocularly (left or right eye) on the learned categorization and for transfer to novel exemplars (Experiment 1). Subsequent tests examined whether they relied on memorized features or on a conceptual strategy, using stimuli composed of new combinations of familiar and novel humans and backgrounds (Experiment 2), whether the hemispheres processed global or local information, using pictures with different levels of scrambling (Experiment 3), and whether they attended to configuration, using distorted human figures (Experiment 4). The results suggest that the left hemisphere employs a category strategy and concentrates on local features, while the right hemisphere uses an exemplar strategy and relies on configuration. These cognitive dichotomies of the cerebral hemispheres are largely shared by humans, suggesting that lateralized cognitive systems already defined the neural architecture of the common ancestor of birds and mammals.
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- Y Yamazaki
- Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Biopsychology, Faculty of Psychology, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, 44780 Bochum, Germany.
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Mirzajani A, Riyahi-Alam N, Oghabian MA, Saberi H, Firouznia K. Spatial frequency modulates visual cortical response to temporal frequency variation of visual stimuli: an fMRI study. Physiol Meas 2007; 28:547-54. [PMID: 17470987 DOI: 10.1088/0967-3334/28/5/008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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The brain response to temporal frequency (TF) variation has already been reported, but with no study for different TF with respect to various spatial frequencies (SF). Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) was performed with a 1.5 Tesla General Electric system in 14 volunteers during square-wave reversal checkerboard visual stimulation with different temporal frequencies of 4, 6, 8 and 10 Hz in two states of low SF of 0.4 and high SF of 8 cpd (cycles/degree). The activation map was created using the data obtained from the block-designed fMRI study. Voxels whose Z value was above a threshold of 3.0, at a significance level P = 0.05, were considered activated. The results demonstrated that the percentage BOLD signal change in response to different TFs was the maximum value at 6 Hz for a high SF of 8 cpd, whereas it was the maximum at TF of 8 Hz for a low SF of 0.4 cpd. The results of this study agree with the results of animal invasive neurophysiological studies showing spatial and temporal frequency selectivity of neurons in visual cortical areas. These results can be useful for vision therapy (such as the treatment of amblyopia) and selecting a visual task in fMRI studies.
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- A Mirzajani
- Department of Medical Physics, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
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Rotshtein P, Vuilleumier P, Winston J, Driver J, Dolan R. Distinct and convergent visual processing of high and low spatial frequency information in faces. Cereb Cortex 2007; 17:2713-24. [PMID: 17283203 PMCID: PMC2600423 DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhl180] [Citation(s) in RCA: 76] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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We tested for differential brain response to distinct spatial frequency (SF) components in faces. During a functional magnetic resonance imaging experiment, participants were presented with "hybrid" faces containing superimposed low and high SF information from different identities. We used a repetition paradigm where faces at either SF range were independently repeated or changed across consecutive trials. In addition, we manipulated which SF band was attended. Our results suggest that repetition and attention affected partly overlapping occipitotemporal regions but did not interact. Changes of high SF faces increased responses of the right inferior occipital gyrus (IOG) and left inferior temporal gyrus (ITG), with the latter response being also modulated additively by attention. In contrast, the bilateral middle occipital gyrus (MOG) responded to repetition and attention manipulations of low SF. A common effect of high and low SF repetition was observed in the right fusiform gyrus (FFG). Follow-up connectivity analyses suggested direct influence of the MOG (low SF), IOG, and ITG (high SF) on the FFG responses. Our results reveal that different regions within occipitotemporal cortex extract distinct visual cues at different SF ranges in faces and that the outputs from these separate processes project forward to the right FFG, where the different visual cues may converge.
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- Pia Rotshtein
- Behavioural Brain Science Centre, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, UK.
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Rubia K, Smith AB, Woolley J, Nosarti C, Heyman I, Taylor E, Brammer M. Progressive increase of frontostriatal brain activation from childhood to adulthood during event-related tasks of cognitive control. Hum Brain Mapp 2007; 27:973-93. [PMID: 16683265 PMCID: PMC6871373 DOI: 10.1002/hbm.20237] [Citation(s) in RCA: 467] [Impact Index Per Article: 27.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Higher cognitive inhibitory and attention functions have been shown to develop throughout adolescence, presumably concurrent with anatomical brain maturational changes. The relatively scarce developmental functional imaging literature on cognitive control, however, has been inconsistent with respect to the neurofunctional substrates of this cognitive development, finding either increased or decreased executive prefrontal function in the progression from childhood to adulthood. Such inconsistencies may be due to small subject numbers or confounds from age-related performance differences in block design functional MRI (fMRI). In this study, rapid, randomized, mixed-trial event-related fMRI was used to investigate developmental differences of the neural networks mediating a range of motor and cognitive inhibition functions in a sizeable number of adolescents and adults. Functional brain activation was compared between adolescents and adults during three different executive tasks measuring selective motor response inhibition (Go/no-go task), cognitive interference inhibition (Simon task), and attentional set shifting (Switch task). Adults compared with children showed increased brain activation in task-specific frontostriatal networks, including right orbital and mesial prefrontal cortex and caudate during the Go/no-go task, right mesial and inferior prefrontal cortex, parietal lobe, and putamen during the Switch task and left dorsolateral and inferior frontotemporoparietal regions and putamen during the Simon task. Whole-brain regression analyses with age across all subjects showed progressive age-related changes in similar and extended clusters of task-specific frontostriatal, frontotemporal, and frontoparietal networks. The findings suggest progressive maturation of task-specific frontostriatal and frontocortical networks for cognitive control functions in the transition from childhood to mid-adulthood.
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- Katya Rubia
- Department of Child Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College, London, UK.
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Peyrin C, Mermillod M, Chokron S, Marendaz C. Effect of temporal constraints on hemispheric asymmetries during spatial frequency processing. Brain Cogn 2006; 62:214-20. [PMID: 16837115 DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2006.05.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/05/2005] [Revised: 05/18/2006] [Accepted: 05/19/2006] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Studies on functional hemispheric asymmetries have suggested that the right vs. left hemisphere should be predominantly involved in low vs. high spatial frequency (SF) analysis, respectively. By manipulating exposure duration of filtered natural scene images, we examined whether the temporal characteristics of SF analysis (i.e., the temporal precedence of low on high spatial frequencies) may interfere with hemispheric specialization. Results showed the classical hemispheric specialization pattern for brief exposure duration and a trend to a right hemisphere advantage irrespective of the SF content for longer exposure duration. The present study suggests that the hemispheric specialization pattern for visual information processing should be considered as a dynamic system, wherein the superiority of one hemisphere over the other could change according to the level of temporal constraints: the higher the temporal constraints of the task, the more the hemispheres are specialized in SF processing.
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Knyazeva MG, Fornari E, Meuli R, Maeder P. Interhemispheric integration at different spatial scales: the evidence from EEG coherence and FMRI. J Neurophysiol 2006; 96:259-75. [PMID: 16571734 DOI: 10.1152/jn.00687.2005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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The early visual system processes different spatial frequencies (SFs) separately. To examine where in the brain the scale-specific information is integrated, we mapped the neural assemblies engaged in interhemispheric coupling with electroencephalographic (EEG) coherence and blood-oxygen-level dependent (BOLD) signal. During similar EEG and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) experiments, our subjects viewed centrally presented bilateral gratings of different SF (0.25-8.0 cpd), which either obeyed Gestalt grouping rules (iso-oriented, IG) or violated them (orthogonally oriented, OG). The IG stimuli (0.5-4.0 cpd) synchronized EEG at discrete beta frequencies (beta1, beta2) and increased BOLD (0.5 and 2.0 cpd tested) in ventral (around collateral sulcus) and dorsal (parieto-occipital fissure) regions compared with OG. At both SF, the beta1 coherence correlated with the ventral activations, whereas the beta2 coherence correlated with the dorsal ones. Thus distributed neural substrates mediated interhemispheric integration at single SF. The relative impact of the ventral versus dorsal networks was modulated by the SF of the stimulus.
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- Maria G Knyazeva
- Department of Radiology, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne, Switzerland.
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Peyrin C, Chokron S, Guyader N, Gout O, Moret J, Marendaz C. Neural correlates of spatial frequency processing: A neuropsychological approach. Brain Res 2006; 1073-1074:1-10. [PMID: 16443206 DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2005.12.051] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/19/2005] [Revised: 12/08/2005] [Accepted: 12/08/2005] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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We examined the neural correlates of spatial frequency (SF) processing through a gender and neuropsychological approach, using a recognition task of filtered (either in low spatial frequencies/LSF or high spatial frequencies/HSF) natural scene images. Experiment 1 provides evidence for hemispheric specialization in SF processing in men (the right hemisphere is predominantly involved in LSF analysis and the left in HSF analysis) but not in women. Experiment 2 aims to investigate the role of the right occipito-temporal cortex in LSF processing with a neurological female patient who had a focal lesion of this region due to an embolization of an arterioveinous malformation. This study was conducted 1 week before and 6 months after the surgical intervention. As expected, after the embolization, LSF scene recognition was more impaired than HSF scene recognition. These data support the hypothesis that the right occipito-temporal cortex might be preferentially specialized for LSF information processing and more generally suggest a hemispheric specialization in SF processing in females, although it is difficult to demonstrate in healthy women.
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- Carole Peyrin
- Laboratoire de Psychologie et NeuroCognition, UMR 5105-CNRS/Université Pierre Mendès-France, BP 47, 38040 Grenoble Cedex 09, France.
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Bar M, Kassam KS, Ghuman AS, Boshyan J, Schmid AM, Schmidt AM, Dale AM, Hämäläinen MS, Marinkovic K, Schacter DL, Rosen BR, Halgren E. Top-down facilitation of visual recognition. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2006; 103:449-54. [PMID: 16407167 PMCID: PMC1326160 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0507062103] [Citation(s) in RCA: 944] [Impact Index Per Article: 52.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/17/2005] [Accepted: 11/23/2005] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Cortical analysis related to visual object recognition is traditionally thought to propagate serially along a bottom-up hierarchy of ventral areas. Recent proposals gradually promote the role of top-down processing in recognition, but how such facilitation is triggered remains a puzzle. We tested a specific model, proposing that low spatial frequencies facilitate visual object recognition by initiating top-down processes projected from orbitofrontal to visual cortex. The present study combined magnetoencephalography, which has superior temporal resolution, functional magnetic resonance imaging, and a behavioral task that yields successful recognition with stimulus repetitions. Object recognition elicited differential activity that developed in the left orbitofrontal cortex 50 ms earlier than it did in recognition-related areas in the temporal cortex. This early orbitofrontal activity was directly modulated by the presence of low spatial frequencies in the image. Taken together, the dynamics we revealed provide strong support for the proposal of how top-down facilitation of object recognition is initiated, and our observations are used to derive predictions for future research.
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- M Bar
- Martinos Center at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, MA 02129, USA.
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Mirzajani A, Oghabian MA, Riyahi-Alam N, Saberi H, Firouznia K, Bakhtiary M. Spatial frequency modulates the human visual cortical response to temporal frequency variation: an fMRI study. CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS : ... ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE IEEE ENGINEERING IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY SOCIETY. IEEE ENGINEERING IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY SOCIETY. ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2006; 2006:1032-1035. [PMID: 17946438 DOI: 10.1109/iembs.2006.260078] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
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The brain response to temporal frequencies (TF) has been already reported, but with no study for different TFs with respect to various spatial frequencies (SF). Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) experiments were performed by 1.5 Tesla General Electric-system in 14 volunteers (9 males and 5 females, range 19-26 years) during square-wave reversal checkerboard visual stimulation with different temporal frequencies of 4, 6, 8 and 10 Hz in two states of low SF of 0.5 and high SF of 8 cpd (cycles/degree). The activation map was created using the data obtained from the block designed fMRI study. Pixels whose correlation coefficient value was above a threshold of 0.33, in significant level P<0.01 were considered activated. The average percentage BOLD (blood oxygenation level dependent) signal change for all activated pixels within the occipital lobe, multiplied by the total number of activated pixels within the occipital lobe, was used as the criterion for the strength of the fMRI signal at each state of TF&SF. The results demonstrated that the strength of the fMRI signal in response to different TFs was maximum in 6Hz for high SF of 8 cpd, while it was maximum at TF of 8Hz for low SF of 0.5 cpd. The results of this study agree with the results of animal invasive neurophysiological studies showing spatial and temporal frequency selectivity of neurons in visual cortical areas. These results can be useful for vision therapy (such as the treatment of Amblyopia) and selecting visual task in fMRI studies.
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- A Mirzajani
- Medical Physics Department, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
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Seghier ML, Vuilleumier P. Functional neuroimaging findings on the human perception of illusory contours. Neurosci Biobehav Rev 2006; 30:595-612. [PMID: 16457887 DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2005.11.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 87] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2005] [Revised: 09/14/2005] [Accepted: 11/21/2005] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Illusory contours (IC) have attracted a considerable interest in recent years to derive models of how sensory information is processed and integrated within the visual system. In addition to various findings from neuropsychology, neurophysiology, and psychophysics, several recent studies have used functional neuroimaging to identify the cerebral substrates underlying human perception of IC (in particular Kanizsa figures). In this paper, we review the results from more than 20 neuroimaging studies on IC perception and highlight the great diversity of findings across these studies. We then provide a detailed discussion about the localization ('where' debate) and the timing ('when' debate) of IC processing as suggested by functional neuroimaging. Cortical responses involving visual areas as early as V1/V2 and latencies as rapid as 100 ms have been reported in several studies. Particular issues concerning the role of the right hemisphere and the retinotopic encoding of IC are also discussed. These different findings are tentatively brought together to propose different hypothetical cortical mechanisms that might be responsible for the visual formation of IC. Several remaining questions on IC processing that could potentially be explored with functional neuroimaging techniques are finally emphasized.
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- M L Seghier
- Laboratory for Neurology and Imaging of Cognition, Clinic of Neurology and Department of Neurosciences, University Medical Center of Geneva, Michel-Servet 1, Geneva 1211, Switzerland.
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