Distributed representations of behavior-derived object dimensions in the human visual system.

ABSTRACT: Object vision is commonly thought to involve a hierarchy of brain regions processing increasingly complex image features, with high-level visual cortex supporting object recognition and categorization. However, object vision supports diverse behavioral goals, suggesting basic limitations of this category-centric framework. To address these limitations, we mapped a series of dimensions derived from a large-scale analysis of human similarity judgments directly onto the brain. Our results reveal broadly distributed representations of behaviorally-relevant information, demonstrating selectivity to a wide variety of novel dimensions while capturing known selectivities for visual features and categories. Behavior-derived dimensions were superior to categories at predicting brain responses, yield

SUBMITTER: Contier O 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10473665 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature