Associative Processing Is Inherent in Scene Perception.

ABSTRACT: How are complex visual entities such as scenes represented in the human brain? More concretely, along what visual and semantic dimensions are scenes encoded in memory? One hypothesis is that global spatial properties provide a basis for categorizing the neural response patterns arising from scenes. In contrast, non-spatial properties, such as single objects, also account for variance in neural responses. The list of critical scene dimensions has continued to grow--sometimes in a contradictory manner--coming to encompass properties such as geometric layout, big/small, crowded/sparse, and three-dimensionality. We demonstrate that these dimensions may be better understood within the more general framework of associative properties. That is, across both the perceptual and semantic domains, fea

SUBMITTER: Aminoff EM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4467091 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature