A common neural substrate for processing scenes and egomotion-compatible visual motion.

ABSTRACT: Neuroimaging studies have revealed two separate classes of category-selective regions specialized in optic flow (egomotion-compatible) processing and in scene/place perception. Despite the importance of both optic flow and scene/place recognition to estimate changes in position and orientation within the environment during self-motion, the possible functional link between egomotion- and scene-selective regions has not yet been established. Here we reanalyzed functional magnetic resonance images from a large sample of participants performing two well-known "localizer" fMRI experiments, consisting in passive viewing of navigationally relevant stimuli such as buildings and places (scene/place stimulus) and coherently moving fields of dots simulating the visual stimulation during self-motion (

SUBMITTER: Sulpizio V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7473967 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature