Parietal cortex integrates contextual and saliency signals during the encoding of natural scenes in working memory.

ABSTRACT: The Brief presentation of a complex scene entails that only a few objects can be selected, processed indepth, and stored in memory. Both low-level sensory salience and high-level context-related factors (e.g., the conceptual match/mismatch between objects and scene context) contribute to this selection process, but how the interplay between these factors affects memory encoding is largely unexplored. Here, during fMRI we presented participants with pictures of everyday scenes. After a short retention interval, participants judged the position of a target object extracted from the initial scene. The target object could be either congruent or incongruent with the context of the scene, and could be located in a region of the image with maximal or minimal salience. Behaviourally, we found a re

SUBMITTER: Santangelo V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6869543 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature