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An early category-specific neural response for the perception of both places and faces

Rivolta, Davide; Palermo, Romina; Schmalzl, Laura; Williams, Mark

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Rapid and accurate recognition of faces and places is crucial in everyday life. Magnetoencephalography (MEG) studies have demonstrated that the human visual system can categorize an incoming visual stimulus as a face within 100 ms, as reflected by the M100. No similar, early, place-specific MEG component has been described, somewhat surprisingly, as there is behavioral evidence for rapid visual categorization of places. The current study aimed to explore the existence, as well as the...[Show more]

dc.contributor.authorRivolta, Davide
dc.contributor.authorPalermo, Romina
dc.contributor.authorSchmalzl, Laura
dc.contributor.authorWilliams, Mark
dc.date.accessioned2015-12-10T23:16:19Z
dc.identifier.issn1530-8898
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/65004
dc.description.abstractRapid and accurate recognition of faces and places is crucial in everyday life. Magnetoencephalography (MEG) studies have demonstrated that the human visual system can categorize an incoming visual stimulus as a face within 100 ms, as reflected by the M100. No similar, early, place-specific MEG component has been described, somewhat surprisingly, as there is behavioral evidence for rapid visual categorization of places. The current study aimed to explore the existence, as well as the spatio-temporal dynamics, of a place-selective MEG component. MEG activity was recorded while 10 participants were presented with pairs of face and place stimuli. Our results show that the perception of places generates a category-specific MEG component (M100p), which occurs just as early as that seen for faces. Our findings suggest that early visual categorization within cortical areas does not occur exclusively for faces, but instead may be a more general phenomenon.
dc.publisherMIT Press
dc.sourceJournal of Cognitive Neuroscience
dc.subjectKeywords: adult; article; face recognition; female; high resolution MRI; human; human experiment; left hemisphere; magnetoencephalography; male; medial occipital lobe; normal human; nuclear magnetic resonance imaging; occipital lobe; perception; place recognition; Face perception; M100; MEG; Place perception; Visual perception
dc.titleAn early category-specific neural response for the perception of both places and faces
dc.typeJournal article
local.description.notesImported from ARIES
local.identifier.citationvolume3
dc.date.issued2012
local.identifier.absfor170112 - Sensory Processes, Perception and Performance
local.identifier.ariespublicationf5625xPUB1035
local.type.statusPublished Version
local.contributor.affiliationRivolta, Davide, Macquarie University
local.contributor.affiliationPalermo, Romina, College of Medicine, Biology and Environment, ANU
local.contributor.affiliationSchmalzl, Laura, Macquarie University
local.contributor.affiliationWilliams, Mark, Macquarie University
local.description.embargo2037-12-31
local.bibliographicCitation.issue1
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage45
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage51
local.identifier.doi10.1080/17588928.2011.604726
local.identifier.absseo970117 - Expanding Knowledge in Psychology and Cognitive Sciences
dc.date.updated2016-02-24T08:35:27Z
local.identifier.scopusID2-s2.0-84863393760
local.identifier.thomsonID000305830700018
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