Unique semantic space in the brain of each beholder predicts perceived similarity.

ABSTRACT: The unique way in which each of us perceives the world must arise from our brain representations. If brain imaging could reveal an individual's unique mental representation, it could help us understand the biological substrate of our individual experiential worlds in mental health and disease. However, imaging studies of object vision have focused on commonalities between individuals rather than individual differences and on category averages rather than representations of particular objects. Here we investigate the individually unique component of brain representations of particular objects with functional MRI (fMRI). Subjects were presented with unfamiliar and personally meaningful object images while we measured their brain activity on two separate days. We characterized the representat

SUBMITTER: Charest I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4209976 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature