Interaction envelope: Local spatial representations of objects at all scales in scene-selective regions.

ABSTRACT: While several cortical regions have been highlighted for their category selectivity (e.g., scene-selective regions like the parahippocampal place area, object selective regions like the lateral occipital complex), a growing trend in cognitive neuroscience has been to investigate what particular perceptual properties these regions calculate. Classical scene-selective regions have been particularly targeted in recent work as being sensitive to object size or other related properties. Here we test to which extent these regions are sensitive to spatial information of stimuli at any size. We introduce the spatial object property of "interaction envelope," defined as the space through which a user transverses to interact with an object. In two functional magnetic resonance imaging experiments, w

SUBMITTER: Bainbridge WA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4655824 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature