Title | The dynamics of invariant object recognition in the human visual system. |
Publication Type | Journal Article |
Year of Publication | 2014 |
Authors | Isik, L, Meyers, E, Leibo, JZ, Poggio, T |
Journal | J Neurophysiol |
Volume | 111 |
Issue | 1 |
Pagination | 91-102 |
Date Published | 01/2014 |
ISSN | 1522-1598 |
Keywords | Adolescent, Adult, Evoked Potentials, Visual, Female, Humans, Male, Pattern Recognition, Visual, Reaction Time, visual cortex |
Abstract | The human visual system can rapidly recognize objects despite transformations that alter their appearance. The precise timing of when the brain computes neural representations that are invariant to particular transformations, however, has not been mapped in humans. Here we employ magnetoencephalography decoding analysis to measure the dynamics of size- and position-invariant visual information development in the ventral visual stream. With this method we can read out the identity of objects beginning as early as 60 ms. Size- and position-invariant visual information appear around 125 ms and 150 ms, respectively, and both develop in stages, with invariance to smaller transformations arising before invariance to larger transformations. Additionally, the magnetoencephalography sensor activity localizes to neural sources that are in the most posterior occipital regions at the early decoding times and then move temporally as invariant information develops. These results provide previously unknown latencies for key stages of human-invariant object recognition, as well as new and compelling evidence for a feed-forward hierarchical model of invariant object recognition where invariance increases at each successive visual area along the ventral stream. Corresponding Dataset - The dynamics of invariant object recognition in the human visual system. |
URL | http://jn.physiology.org/content/early/2013/09/27/jn.00394.2013.abstract |
DOI | 10.1152/jn.00394.2013 |
Alternate Journal | J. Neurophysiol. |
PubMed ID | 24089402 |
PubMed Central ID | PMC4280161 |
Grant List | T32 GM007484 / GM / NIGMS NIH HHS / United States |
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