EEG Decoding Reveals Neural Predictions for Naturalistic Material Behaviors.

ABSTRACT: Material properties, such as softness or stickiness, determine how an object can be used. Based on our real-life experience, we form strong expectations about how objects should behave under force, given their typical material properties. Such expectations have been shown to modulate perceptual processes, but we currently do not know how expectation influences the temporal dynamics of the cortical visual analysis for objects and their materials. Here, we tracked the neural representations of expected and unexpected material behaviors using time-resolved EEG decoding in a violation-of-expectation paradigm, where objects fell to the ground and deformed in expected or unexpected ways. Participants were 25 men and women. Our study yielded three key results: First, both objects and materials we

SUBMITTER: Kaiser D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10359026 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature