TY - JOUR
T1 - Sparse representation of global features of visual images in human primary visual cortex
T2 - Evidence from fMRI
AU - Zhao, Songnian
AU - Yao, Li
AU - Jin, Zhen
AU - Xiong, Xiaoyun
AU - Wu, Xia
AU - Zou, Qi
AU - Yao, Guozheng
AU - Cai, Xiaohong
AU - Liu, Yijun
PY - 2008/7
Y1 - 2008/7
N2 - In fMRI experiments on object representation in visual cortex, we designed two types of stimuli: one is the gray face image and its line drawing, and the other is the illusion and its corresponding completed illusion. Both of them have the same global features with different minute details so that the results of fMRI experiments can be compared with each other. The first kind of visual stimuli was used in a block design fMRI experiment, and the second was used in an event-related fMRI experiment. Comparing and analyzing interesting visual cortex activity patterns and blood oxygenation level dependent (BOLD)-fMRI signal, we obtained results to show some invariance of global features of visual images. A plausible explanation about the invariant mechanism is related with the cooperation of synchronized response to the global features of the visual image with a feedback of shape perception from higher cortex to cortex V1, namely the integration of global features and embodiment of sparse representation and distributed population code.
AB - In fMRI experiments on object representation in visual cortex, we designed two types of stimuli: one is the gray face image and its line drawing, and the other is the illusion and its corresponding completed illusion. Both of them have the same global features with different minute details so that the results of fMRI experiments can be compared with each other. The first kind of visual stimuli was used in a block design fMRI experiment, and the second was used in an event-related fMRI experiment. Comparing and analyzing interesting visual cortex activity patterns and blood oxygenation level dependent (BOLD)-fMRI signal, we obtained results to show some invariance of global features of visual images. A plausible explanation about the invariant mechanism is related with the cooperation of synchronized response to the global features of the visual image with a feedback of shape perception from higher cortex to cortex V1, namely the integration of global features and embodiment of sparse representation and distributed population code.
KW - FMRI experiment
KW - Feedback
KW - Global features of visual image
KW - Integration
KW - Nearly invariant representation
KW - Primary visual cortex
KW - Sparse representation strategy
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=48249096367&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s11434-008-0254-0
DO - 10.1007/s11434-008-0254-0
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:48249096367
SN - 1001-6538
VL - 53
SP - 2165
EP - 2174
JO - Chinese Science Bulletin
JF - Chinese Science Bulletin
IS - 14
ER -