Distributed processing of color and form in the visual cortex

To what extent does the visual system process color and form separately? Proponents of the segregation view claim that distinct regions of the cortex are dedicated to each of these two dimensions separately. However, evidence is accumulating that color and form processing may, at least to some exten...

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Published inFrontiers in psychology Vol. 5; p. 932
Main Authors Rentzeperis, Ilias, Nikolaev, Andrey R, Kiper, Daniel C, van Leeuwen, Cees
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Switzerland Frontiers Media S.A 27.10.2014
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Color
Feedback
feedforward
Form
Functional Specialization
integration
Psychology
mixed selective cells
color
form
distributed processing
high dimensional code
integration
complex selectivity
segregation
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Summary:To what extent does the visual system process color and form separately? Proponents of the segregation view claim that distinct regions of the cortex are dedicated to each of these two dimensions separately. However, evidence is accumulating that color and form processing may, at least to some extent, be intertwined in the brain. In this perspective, we review psychophysical and neurophysiological studies on color and form perception and evaluate their results in light of recent developments in population coding.
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Reviewed by: Ruth Rosenholtz, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA; Konstantinos Moutoussis, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
Edited by: Galina Paramei, Liverpool Hope University, UK
This article was submitted to Perception Science, a section of the journal Frontiers in Psychology.
ISSN:1664-1078
1664-1078
DOI:10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00932