Extensive childhood experience with Pokemon suggests eccentricity drives organization of visual cortex.

ABSTRACT: The functional organization of human high-level visual cortex, such as the face- and place-selective regions, is strikingly consistent across individuals. An unanswered question in neuroscience concerns which dimensions of visual information constrain the development and topography of this shared brain organization. To answer this question, we used functional magnetic resonance imaging to scan a unique group of adults who, as children, had extensive visual experience with Pokémon. These animal-like, pixelated characters are dissimilar from other ecological categories, such as faces and places, along critical dimensions (foveal bias, rectilinearity, size, animacy). We show not only that adults who have Pokémon experience demonstrate distinct distributed cortical responses to Pokémon, but al

SUBMITTER: Gomez J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7055538 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature