Object recognition in clutter: cortical responses depend on the type of learning

• Published in: Frontiers in human neuroscience Vol. 6; p. 170
• Main Authors: Hegdé, Jay, Thompson, Serena K., Brady, Mark, Kersten, Daniel
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Switzerland Frontiers Research Foundation 19.06.2012; Frontiers Media S.A
• Subjects: Brain mapping; Camouflage; Clutter tolerance; Configural processing; Cortex; Crowding; Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Neuroimaging; Neuroscience; Pattern recognition; Perceptual Learning; visual search; Visual system; configural processing; perceptual learning; visual context; crowding; visual search; pop-out; clutter tolerance; camouflage

Theoretical studies suggest that the visual system uses prior knowledge of visual objects to recognize them in visual clutter, and posit that the strategies for recognizing objects in clutter may differ depending on whether or not the object was learned in clutter to begin with. We tested this hypot...