Texture-like representation of objects in human visual cortex.

ABSTRACT: The human visual ability to recognize objects and scenes is widely thought to rely on representations in category-selective regions of the visual cortex. These representations could support object vision by specifically representing objects, or, more simply, by representing complex visual features regardless of the particular spatial arrangement needed to constitute real-world objects, that is, by representing visual textures. To discriminate between these hypotheses, we leveraged an image synthesis approach that, unlike previous methods, provides independent control over the complexity and spatial arrangement of visual features. We found that human observers could easily detect a natural object among synthetic images with similar complex features that were spatially scrambled. However, ob

SUBMITTER: Jagadeesh AV 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9169962 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature