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Makin ADJ, Tyson-Carr J, Rampone G, Derpsch Y, Wright D, Bertamini M. Lessons from a catalogue of 6674 brain recordings. eLife 2022; 11:66388. [PMID: 35703370 PMCID: PMC9200404 DOI: 10.7554/elife.66388] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/08/2021] [Accepted: 04/14/2022] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
Abstract
It is now possible for scientists to publicly catalogue all the data they have ever collected on one phenomenon. For a decade, we have been measuring a brain response to visual symmetry called the sustained posterior negativity (SPN). Here we report how we have made a total of 6674 individual SPNs from 2215 participants publicly available, along with data extraction and visualization tools (https://osf.io/2sncj/). We also report how re-analysis of the SPN catalogue has shed light on aspects of the scientific process, such as statistical power and publication bias, and revealed new scientific insights.
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Affiliation(s)
- Alexis D J Makin
- Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
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- Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
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- Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
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- Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom.,School of Psychology, University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom
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- Patrick Wild Centre, Division of Psychiatry, Royal Edinburgh Hospital, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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- Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom.,Dipartimento di Psicologia Generale, Università di Padova, Padova, Italy
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Perceptual Similarities among Wallpaper Group Exemplars. Symmetry (Basel) 2022. [DOI: 10.3390/sym14050857] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Symmetries are abundant within the visual environment, and many animals species are sensitive to visual symmetries. Wallpaper groups constitute a class of 17 regular textures that each contain a distinct combination of the four fundamental symmetries, translation, reflection, rotation and glide reflection, and together represent the complete set of possible symmetries in two-dimensional images. Wallpapers are visually compelling and elicit responses in visual brain areas that precisely capture the symmetry content of each group in humans and other primates. Here we ask to what extent different exemplars from the same wallpaper group are perceptually similar. We used an algorithm to produce a set of well-matched exemplars from 5 of the 17 wallpaper groups and instructed participants to freely sort the exemplars from each group into as many subsets as they wished based on any criteria they saw appropriate. P1, the simplest of the 17 groups, was consistently rated more self-similar than any other group, while the other four groups, although varying in symmetry content, were comparable in self-similarity. Our results suggest that except for the most extreme case (P1), perceived self-similarity of wallpaper groups is not directly tied to categories of symmetry based on group theory.
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Audurier P, Héjja-Brichard Y, De Castro V, Kohler PJ, Norcia AM, Durand JB, Cottereau BR. Symmetry Processing in the Macaque Visual Cortex. Cereb Cortex 2021; 32:2277-2290. [PMID: 34617100 PMCID: PMC9113295 DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhab358] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/27/2021] [Revised: 09/01/2021] [Accepted: 09/02/2021] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
Abstract
Symmetry is a highly salient feature of the natural world that is perceived by many species. In humans, the cerebral areas processing symmetry are now well identified from neuroimaging measurements. Macaque could constitute a good animal model to explore the underlying neural mechanisms, but a previous comparative study concluded that functional magnetic resonance imaging responses to mirror symmetry in this species were weaker than those observed in humans. Here, we re-examined symmetry processing in macaques from a broader perspective, using both rotation and reflection symmetry embedded in regular textures. Highly consistent responses to symmetry were found in a large network of areas (notably in areas V3 and V4), in line with what was reported in humans under identical experimental conditions. Our results suggest that the cortical networks that process symmetry in humans and macaques are potentially more similar than previously reported and point toward macaque as a relevant model for understanding symmetry processing.
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Affiliation(s)
- Pauline Audurier
- Centre de Recherche Cerveau et Cognition, Université de Toulouse, 31052 Toulouse, France.,Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 31055 Toulouse, France
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- Centre de Recherche Cerveau et Cognition, Université de Toulouse, 31052 Toulouse, France.,Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 31055 Toulouse, France
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- Centre de Recherche Cerveau et Cognition, Université de Toulouse, 31052 Toulouse, France.,Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 31055 Toulouse, France
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- Department of Psychology, York University, Toronto, ON M3J 1P3, Canada.,Centre for Vision Research, York University, Toronto, ON, M3J 1P3, Canada
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- Department of Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.,Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- Centre de Recherche Cerveau et Cognition, Université de Toulouse, 31052 Toulouse, France.,Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 31055 Toulouse, France
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- Centre de Recherche Cerveau et Cognition, Université de Toulouse, 31052 Toulouse, France.,Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 31055 Toulouse, France
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