Task-dependent fMRI decoder with the power to extend Gabor patch results to Natural images.

ABSTRACT: Scientists are often asked to what extent a simple finding in a laboratory can be generalized to complicated phenomena in our daily lives. The same is equally true of vision science; numerous critical discoveries about our visual system have been made using very simple visual images, such as Gabor patches, but to what extent can these findings be applied to more natural images? Here, we used the fMRI decoding technique and directly tested whether the findings obtained with primitive visual stimuli (Gabor patches) were applicable to natural images. In the fMRI experiments, participants performed depth and resolution tasks with both Gabor patches and natural images. We created a fMRI decoder made from the results of the Gabor patch experiments that classified a brain activity pattern into th

SUBMITTER: Tsushima Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6987206 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature