August 2014
Volume 14, Issue 10
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Vision Sciences Society Annual Meeting Abstract  |   August 2014
A single mechanism of temporal integration unites neural adaptation and norm-based coding
Author Affiliations
  • Marcelo Gomes Mattar
    Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
  • David Alexander Kahn
    Department of Neurology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
  • Geoffrey Karl Aguirre
    Department of Neurology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Journal of Vision August 2014, Vol.14, 120. doi:https://doi.org/10.1167/14.10.120
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      Marcelo Gomes Mattar, David Alexander Kahn, Geoffrey Karl Aguirre; A single mechanism of temporal integration unites neural adaptation and norm-based coding. Journal of Vision 2014;14(10):120. https://doi.org/10.1167/14.10.120.

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Abstract

What information is encoded in a cortical visual representation? That visual representations are distributed across the ventral temporal cortex is well established. fMRI adaptation studies demonstrate these neural codes are modulated by the perceptual similarity of sequential stimuli. Studies investigating prototype-based coding effects propose that neural responses are proportional to distinctiveness from a central reference, or prototype. In existing fMRI work, these two effects are considered independently. Here, we propose that these two effects arise as a consequence of a single mechanism of coding based upon temporal integration over recent stimulus history. Using a carry-over fMRI design, we show significant neural adaptation and prototype-based coding effects in a face-responsive region of interest in the right fusiform gyrus when effects are modeled discretely. By considering these effects as extremes of a single drifting norm model, we find that visual representations tend to encode identity in terms of intermediate stimulus history. Looking beyond the region of interest, we demonstrate that the effect of temporal context varies smoothly across the cortex, with the modulatory effect of recent visual history extending further back in time in a posterior to anterior fashion along the right ventral temporal cortex. These findings reframe two branches of the visual representation literature in terms of a unified encoding model. Importantly, this finding offers a perspective on the cortical topology of visual identity representations. We discuss these advances in terms of prior work related to the temporal qualities of visual stimuli.

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