Integrated Contextual Representation for Objects' Identities and Their Locations

• Published in: Journal of cognitive neuroscience Vol. 20; no. 3; pp. 371 - 388
• Main Authors: Gronau, Nurit, Neta, Maital, Bar, Moshe
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: One Rogers Street, Cambridge, MA 02142-1209, USA MIT Press 01.03.2008; MIT Press Journals, The
• Subjects: Adult; Brain; Brain Mapping; Cerebral Cortex - blood supply; Cerebral Cortex - physiology; Cognition & reasoning; Female; Functional Laterality; Humans; Image Processing, Computer-Assisted - methods; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Male; Neurosciences; NMR; Nuclear magnetic resonance; Oxygen - blood; Pattern Recognition, Visual - physiology; Perceptions; Photic Stimulation - methods; Reaction Time - physiology; Recognition; Response time; Semantics; Space Perception - physiology

Visual context plays a prominent role in everyday perception. Contextual information can facilitate recognition of objects within scenes by providing predictions about objects that are most likely to appear in a specific setting, along with the locations that are most likely to contain objects in th...