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Faurite C, Aprile E, Kauffmann L, Mermillod M, Gallice M, Chiquet C, Cottereau BR, Peyrin C. Interaction between central and peripheral vision: Influence of distance and spatial frequencies. J Vis 2024; 24:3. [PMID: 38190145 PMCID: PMC10777871 DOI: 10.1167/jov.24.1.3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/21/2023] [Accepted: 10/30/2024] [Indexed: 01/09/2024] Open
Abstract
Visual scene perception is based on reciprocal interactions between central and peripheral information. Such interactions are commonly investigated through the semantic congruence effect, which usually reveals a congruence effect of central vision on peripheral vision as strong as the reverse. The aim of the present study was to further investigate the mechanisms underlying central-peripheral visual interactions using a central-peripheral congruence paradigm through three behavioral experiments. We presented simultaneously a central and a peripheral stimulus, that could be either semantically congruent or incongruent. To assess the congruence effect of central vision on peripheral vision, participants had to categorize the peripheral target stimulus while ignoring the central distractor stimulus. To assess the congruence effect of the peripheral vision on central vision, they had to categorize the central target stimulus while ignoring the peripheral distractor stimulus. Experiment 1 revealed that the physical distance between central and peripheral stimuli influences central-peripheral visual interactions: Congruence effect of central vision is stronger when the distance between the target and the distractor is the shortest. Experiments 2 and 3 revealed that the spatial frequency content of distractors also influence central-peripheral interactions: Congruence effect of central vision is observed only when the distractor contained high spatial frequencies while congruence effect of peripheral vision is observed only when the distractor contained low spatial frequencies. These results raise the question of how these influences are exerted (bottom-up vs. top-down) and are discussed based on the retinocortical properties of the visual system and the predictive brain hypothesis.
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Affiliation(s)
- Cynthia Faurite
- Université Grenoble Alpes, Univ. Savoie Mont Blanc, Grenoble, France
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- Université Grenoble Alpes, Univ. Savoie Mont Blanc, Grenoble, France
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- Université Grenoble Alpes, Univ. Savoie Mont Blanc, Grenoble, France
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- Université Grenoble Alpes, Univ. Savoie Mont Blanc, Grenoble, France
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Grenoble Alpes University Hospital, Grenoble, France
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Grenoble Alpes University Hospital, Grenoble, France
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- Centre de Recherche Cerveau et Cognition, Université Toulouse III-Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Toulouse, France
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- Université Grenoble Alpes, Univ. Savoie Mont Blanc, Grenoble, France
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Garric C, Wamain Y, Rouland JF, Lenoble Q. Glaucoma-associated abnormalities in cortical activity during a visuocognitive task. Clin Neurophysiol 2023; 156:47-56. [PMID: 37866076 DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2023.09.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/05/2023] [Revised: 07/27/2023] [Accepted: 09/04/2023] [Indexed: 10/24/2023]
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OBJECTIVE To investigate neurophysiological dynamics during a visuocognitive task in glaucoma patients vs. healthy controls. METHODS Fifteen patients with early-stage primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG) and fifteen age-matched healthy participants underwent a "go/no-go" task, monitored with EEG. Participants had to semantically categorize visual objects in central vision, with animal or furniture as targets according to the experimental block. RESULTS Early visual processing was delayed by 50 ms in patients with POAG compared to controls. The patients displayed a smaller difference between animal and furniture categorization during higher-level cognitive processing (at 400-600 ms). Regarding behavioral data, the groups differed in accuracy performance and decision criterion. As opposed to the control group, patients did not display facilitation and a higher accuracy rate for animal stimuli. However, patients maintained a consistent decision criterion throughout the experiment, whereas controls displayed a shift towards worse decision criteria in furniture trials, with higher error rate. CONCLUSIONS The comparative analysis of behavioral and neurophysiological data revealed in POAG patients a delay in early visual processing, and potential high-level cognitive compensation during late, task-dependent activations. SIGNIFICANCE To our knowledge, our findings provide the first evidence of modification in cognitive brain dynamics associated with POAG.
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- Clémentine Garric
- Univ. Lille, INSERM, CHU Lille, U1172 - LilNCog - Lille Neuroscience and Cognition, F-59000 Lille, France.
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- Univ. Lille, CNRS, CHU Lille, UMR 9193, SCALab, Sciences Cognitives et Sciences Affectives, F-59000 Lille, France.
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- Ophthalmology Department, Claude Huriez Hospital, University of Lille, F-59000 Lille, France.
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- Univ. Lille, INSERM, CHU Lille, U1172 - LilNCog - Lille Neuroscience and Cognition, F-59000 Lille, France.
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Badau D, Stoica AM, Litoi MF, Badau A, Duta D, Hantau CG, Sabau AM, Oancea BM, Ciocan CV, Fleancu JL, Gozu B. The Impact of Peripheral Vision on Manual Reaction Time Using Fitlight Technology for Handball, Basketball and Volleyball Players. Bioengineering (Basel) 2023; 10:697. [PMID: 37370628 DOI: 10.3390/bioengineering10060697] [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: 05/06/2023] [Revised: 05/26/2023] [Accepted: 06/06/2023] [Indexed: 06/29/2023] Open
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The purpose of the research was to identify the impact of peripheral (unilateral and bilateral) vision on manual reaction time to visual stimuli in handball, basketball and volleyball players by implementing a 6-week experimental program of specific exercises and some adapted tests using Fitlight technology. The research included 412 players (212 male-51.5%; 200 female-48.5%) from three team sports: basketball-146 (35.4%), handball-140 (40%) and volleyball-126 (30.6%). The experimental program carried out over 6 weeks was identical for all handball, basketball and volleyball players participating in the study; two training sessions per week were performed, with each session lasting 30 min; 15 exercises were used for the improvement of manual reaction time to visual stimuli involving peripheral vision. Through the Analysis of Variance (ANOVA), we identified statistically significant differences between the arithmetic means of the samples of handball, basketball and volleyball players, as well as according to general samples also of gender (male and female), p = 0.000. Male and female handball samples achieved the greatest progress in manual reaction time to visual stimuli involving peripheral vision for the Reaction time test with a unilateral right visual stimulus (30 s) and the Reaction time test with a unilateral left visual stimulus (30 s), while general sample also of male and female basketball samples, for the Reaction time test with bilateral visual stimuli (30 s) and the Reaction time test with six Fitlights (1 min); male and female volleyball samples recorded the lowest progress in all tests compared to handball and basketball groups. According to our results, female samples made greater progress in reaction time than male groups for all four tests of the present study. The implemented experimental program led to an improvement in manual reaction time to visual stimuli due to the use of Fitlight technology and the involvement of peripheral vision for all research samples.
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- Dana Badau
- Petru Maior Faculty of Sciences and Letters, George Emil Palade University of Medicine, Pharmacy, Sciences and Technology, 540142 Targu Mures, Romania
- Interdisciplinary Doctoral School, Transylvania University of Brasov, 500036 Brasov, Romania
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- Department of Physical Education and Sports, University of Bucharest, 050107 Bucharest, Romania
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- Department of Physical Education and Sports, University of Bucharest, 050107 Bucharest, Romania
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- Petru Maior Faculty of Sciences and Letters, George Emil Palade University of Medicine, Pharmacy, Sciences and Technology, 540142 Targu Mures, Romania
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- Faculty of Physical Education and Sport, Ovidius University of Constanta, 900470 Constanta, Romania
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- Faculty of Physical Education and Sport, National University of Physical Education and Sport, 060057 Bucharest, Romania
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- Faculty of Geography, Tourism and Sports, University of Oradea, 410081 Oradea, Romania
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- Faculty of Physical Education and Mountain Sports, Transylvania University of Brasov, 500036 Brasov, Romania
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- Faculty of Physical Education and Sports, Vasile Alecsandri University of Bacau, 600115 Bacau, Romania
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- Faculty of Sciences, Physical Education and Informatics, University of Pitesti, 110040 Pitesti, Romania
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- Department of Physical Education and Sports, University of Bucharest, 050107 Bucharest, Romania
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Rossel P, Peyrin C, Kauffmann L. Subjective perception of objects depends on the interaction between the validity of context-based expectations and signal reliability. Vision Res 2023; 206:108191. [PMID: 36773476 DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2023.108191] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/06/2022] [Revised: 02/02/2023] [Accepted: 02/02/2023] [Indexed: 02/11/2023]
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Predictive coding theories of visual perception assume that expectations based on prior knowledge modulate the processing of information. However, the underlying mechanisms remain debated. Some accounts propose that expectations enhance the perception of expected relative to unexpected stimuli while others assume the opposite. Recently, the opposing process theory suggested that enhanced perception of expected vs. unexpected stimuli may occur alternatively depending upon the reliability of the visual signal. When the signal is noisy, perception would be biassed toward what is expected since anything else may be too noisy to be resolved. When the signal is unambiguous, perception would be biassed toward what diverges from expectations and is more informative. Our study tested this hypothesis, using a perceptual matching task to investigate the influence of expectations on the perceived sharpness of objects in context. Participants saw two blurred images depicting the same object and had to adjust the blur level of one object to match the blur level of the other one. We manipulated the validity of expectations about objects by varying their scene context (congruent or incongruent context leading to valid or invalid expectations about the object). We also manipulated the reliability of the visual signal by varying the initial blur level of object pairs. Results showed that expectations validity differentially affected the perception of objects depending on signal reliability. Perception of validly expected objects was enhanced (sharpened) relative to unexpected objects when visual inputs were unreliable while this effect reversed to the benefit of unexpected objects when the signal was more reliable.
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- Pauline Rossel
- Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, LPNC, 38000 Grenoble, France
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- Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, LPNC, 38000 Grenoble, France
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Impact of glaucoma on the spatial frequency processing of scenes in central vision. Vis Neurosci 2023; 40:E001. [PMID: 36752177 PMCID: PMC9970733 DOI: 10.1017/s0952523822000086] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/09/2023]
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Glaucoma is an eye disease characterized by a progressive vision loss usually starting in peripheral vision. However, a deficit for scene categorization is observed even in the preserved central vision of patients with glaucoma. We assessed the processing and integration of spatial frequencies in the central vision of patients with glaucoma during scene categorization, considering the severity of the disease, in comparison to age-matched controls. In the first session, participants had to categorize scenes filtered in low-spatial frequencies (LSFs) and high-spatial frequencies (HSFs) as a natural or an artificial scene. Results showed that the processing of spatial frequencies was impaired only for patients with severe glaucoma, in particular for HFS scenes. In the light of proactive models of visual perception, we investigated how LSF could guide the processing of HSF in a second session. We presented hybrid scenes (combining LSF and HSF from two scenes belonging to the same or different semantic category). Participants had to categorize the scene filtered in HSF while ignoring the scene filtered in LSF. Surprisingly, results showed that the semantic influence of LSF on HSF was greater for patients with early glaucoma than controls, and then disappeared for the severe cases. This study shows that a progressive destruction of retinal ganglion cells affects the spatial frequency processing in central vision. This deficit may, however, be compensated by increased reliance on predictive mechanisms at early stages of the disease which would however decline in more severe cases.
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Niu Y, Tian J, Han Z, Qu M, Tong M, Yang W, Xue C. Enhancing User Experience of Eye-Controlled Systems: Design Recommendations on the Optimal Size, Distance and Shape of Interactive Components from the Perspective of Peripheral Vision. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH 2022; 19:10737. [PMID: 36078453 PMCID: PMC9517752 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph191710737] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/22/2022] [Revised: 08/15/2022] [Accepted: 08/26/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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For special populations with motor impairments, eye-controlled interaction may be the only way for them to communicate with the outside world. Because of the dominance of vision in the motor mechanism, eye-controlled interaction has high usability and important research value. During eye-controlled interaction, the visual channel needs to receive information from the graphical user interface (GUI) and transmit the user's eye-controlled instructions, which overburdens the visual channel and reduces the efficiency of eye-controlled interaction. This study presents an ergonomic experiment to study how to design interactive GUI components in an eye-controlled user interface. The experiments were conducted based on the shape, size, and distance (from the object to the center of the screen) of the visual interactive components. The experiment comprised three parts: (1) the pre-experiment determined the evaluation index and selected the icon material; (2) the formal experiment was a three-factor within-subjects experiment, which included a search task using participants' peripheral vision; and (3) after the experiment, subjective evaluations were conducted using a questionnaire. The results showed that the shape, size, and distance of the interactive object significantly affected the reaction time, and the size factor significantly affected the movement time of the eye-controlled interaction. Finally, combined with the results of the subjective evaluation, we concluded that the recommended sizes of the interactive components were 2.889°, 3.389°, and 3.889°, and the recommended distances were 5.966° and 8.609°. Additionally, designers should utilize components with simple concrete shapes as much as possible to improve user recognition efficiency. Our study provides enlightening recommendations on how to design components in eye-controlled interactive interfaces, and has great guiding significance for building design standards of the eye-controlled systems.
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- Yafeng Niu
- School of Mechanical Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing 211189, China
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- School of Mechanical Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing 211189, China
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- School of Mechanical Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing 211189, China
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- School of Mechanical Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing 211189, China
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- School of Mechanical Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing 211189, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Science and Technology on Aircraft Control, Xi’an 710065, China
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- School of Mechanical Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing 211189, China
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Trouilloud A, Rossel P, Faurite C, Roux-Sibilon A, Kauffmann L, Peyrin C. Influence of physical features from peripheral vision on scene categorization in central vision. VISUAL COGNITION 2022. [DOI: 10.1080/13506285.2022.2087814] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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- Audrey Trouilloud
- Univ. Grenoble Alpes, Univ. Savoie Mont Blanc, CNRS, LPNC, Grenoble, France
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- Univ. Grenoble Alpes, Univ. Savoie Mont Blanc, CNRS, LPNC, Grenoble, France
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- Univ. Grenoble Alpes, Univ. Savoie Mont Blanc, CNRS, LPNC, Grenoble, France
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- Psychological Sciences Research Institute (IPSY), UC Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
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- Univ. Grenoble Alpes, Univ. Savoie Mont Blanc, CNRS, LPNC, Grenoble, France
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- Univ. Grenoble Alpes, Univ. Savoie Mont Blanc, CNRS, LPNC, Grenoble, France
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Lauer T, Schmidt F, Võ MLH. The role of contextual materials in object recognition. Sci Rep 2021; 11:21988. [PMID: 34753999 PMCID: PMC8578445 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-01406-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/02/2021] [Accepted: 10/22/2021] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
Abstract
While scene context is known to facilitate object recognition, little is known about which contextual "ingredients" are at the heart of this phenomenon. Here, we address the question of whether the materials that frequently occur in scenes (e.g., tiles in a bathroom) associated with specific objects (e.g., a perfume) are relevant for the processing of that object. To this end, we presented photographs of consistent and inconsistent objects (e.g., perfume vs. pinecone) superimposed on scenes (e.g., a bathroom) and close-ups of materials (e.g., tiles). In Experiment 1, consistent objects on scenes were named more accurately than inconsistent ones, while there was only a marginal consistency effect for objects on materials. Also, we did not find any consistency effect for scrambled materials that served as color control condition. In Experiment 2, we recorded event-related potentials and found N300/N400 responses-markers of semantic violations-for objects on inconsistent relative to consistent scenes. Critically, objects on materials triggered N300/N400 responses of similar magnitudes. Our findings show that contextual materials indeed affect object processing-even in the absence of spatial scene structure and object content-suggesting that material is one of the contextual "ingredients" driving scene context effects.
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- Tim Lauer
- Scene Grammar Lab, Department of Psychology, Goethe University Frankfurt, Theodor-W.-Adorno-Platz 6, PEG 5.G144, 60323, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
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- Department of Experimental Psychology, Justus Liebig University Giessen, 35394, Giessen, Germany
- Center for Mind, Brain and Behavior (CMBB), University of Marburg and Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany
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- Scene Grammar Lab, Department of Psychology, Goethe University Frankfurt, Theodor-W.-Adorno-Platz 6, PEG 5.G144, 60323, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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Visual processing varies dramatically across the visual field. These differences start in the retina and continue all the way to the visual cortex. Despite these differences in processing, the perceptual experience of humans is remarkably stable and continuous across the visual field. Research in the last decade has shown that processing in peripheral and foveal vision is not independent, but is more directly connected than previously thought. We address three core questions on how peripheral and foveal vision interact, and review recent findings on potentially related phenomena that could provide answers to these questions. First, how is the processing of peripheral and foveal signals related during fixation? Peripheral signals seem to be processed in foveal retinotopic areas to facilitate peripheral object recognition, and foveal information seems to be extrapolated toward the periphery to generate a homogeneous representation of the environment. Second, how are peripheral and foveal signals re-calibrated? Transsaccadic changes in object features lead to a reduction in the discrepancy between peripheral and foveal appearance. Third, how is peripheral and foveal information stitched together across saccades? Peripheral and foveal signals are integrated across saccadic eye movements to average percepts and to reduce uncertainty. Together, these findings illustrate that peripheral and foveal processing are closely connected, mastering the compromise between a large peripheral visual field and high resolution at the fovea.
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- Emma E M Stewart
- Allgemeine und Biologische Psychologie, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Marburg, Germany.,
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- Dipartimento di Psicologia, Universitá di Bologna, Bologna, Italy.,
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- Allgemeine und Biologische Psychologie, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Marburg, Germany.,Center for Mind, Brain and Behavior, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Marburg, Germany., https://www.uni-marburg.de/en/fb04/team-schuetz/team/alexander-schutz
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Peyrin C, Roux-Sibilon A, Trouilloud A, Khazaz S, Joly M, Pichat C, Boucart M, Krainik A, Kauffmann L. Semantic and Physical Properties of Peripheral Vision Are Used for Scene Categorization in Central Vision. J Cogn Neurosci 2021; 33:799-813. [PMID: 33571079 DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_01689] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
Abstract
Theories of visual recognition postulate that our ability to understand our visual environment at a glance is based on the extraction of the gist of the visual scene, a first global and rudimentary visual representation. Gist perception would be based on the rapid analysis of low spatial frequencies in the visual signal and would allow a coarse categorization of the scene. We aimed to study whether the low spatial resolution information available in peripheral vision could modulate the processing of visual information presented in central vision. We combined behavioral measures (Experiments 1 and 2) and fMRI measures (Experiment 2). Participants categorized a scene presented in central vision (artificial vs. natural categories) while ignoring another scene, either semantically congruent or incongruent, presented in peripheral vision. The two scenes could either share the same physical properties (similar amplitude spectrum and spatial configuration) or not. Categorization of the central scene was impaired by a semantically incongruent peripheral scene, in particular when the two scenes were physically similar. This semantic interference effect was associated with increased activation of the inferior frontal gyrus. When the two scenes were semantically congruent, the dissimilarity of their physical properties impaired the categorization of the central scene. This effect was associated with increased activation in occipito-temporal areas. In line with the hypothesis of predictive mechanisms involved in visual recognition, results suggest that semantic and physical properties of the information coming from peripheral vision would be automatically used to generate predictions that guide the processing of signal in central vision.
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