Holistic versus feature-based binding in the medial temporal lobe.

ABSTRACT: A central question for cognitive neuroscience is how feature-combinations that give rise to episodic/source memories are encoded in the brain. Although there is much evidence that the hippocampus (HIP) is involved in feature binding, and some evidence that other brain regions are as well, there is relatively little evidence about the nature of the resulting representations in different brain regions. We used multivoxel pattern analysis (MVPA) to investigate how feature combinations might be represented, contrasting two possibilities, feature-based versus holistic. Participants viewed stimuli that were composed of three source features - a person (face or body), a scene (indoor or outdoor), and an object (bike or luggage) - which were combined to make eight unique stimulus identities. We re

SUBMITTER: van den Honert RN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5446797 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature