On the Specific Role of the Occipital Cortex in Scene Perception

Peyrin, Carole; Musel, Benoît

doi:10.5772/48438

Visual Cortex - Current Status and Perspectives 2012

DOI: 10.5772/48438

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On the Specific Role of the Occipital Cortex in Scene Perception

Carole Peyrin¹,

Benoît Musel²

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Conscious Vision Proceeds from Global to Local Content in Goal-Directed Tasks and Spontaneous Vision

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The reverse hierarchy theory (Hochstein and Ahissar, 2002) makes strong, but so far untested, predictions on conscious vision. In this theory, local details encoded in lower-order visual areas are unconsciously processed before being automatically and rapidly combined into global information in higher-order visual areas, where conscious percepts emerge. Contingent on current goals, local details can afterward be consciously retrieved. This model therefore predicts that (1) global information is perceived faster than local details, (2) global information is computed regardless of task demands during early visual processing, and (3) spontaneous vision is dominated by global percepts. We designed novel textured stimuli that are, as opposed to the classic Navon's letters, truly hierarchical (i.e., where global information is solely defined by local information but where local and global orientations can still be manipulated separately). In line with the predictions, observers were systematically faster reporting global than local properties of those stimuli. Second, global information could be decoded from magneto-encephalographic data during early visual processing regardless of task demands. Last, spontaneous subjective reports were dominated by global information and the frequency and speed of spontaneous global perception correlated with the accuracy and speed in the global task. No such correlation was observed for local information. We therefore show that information at different levels of the visual hierarchy is not equally likely to become conscious; rather, conscious percepts emerge preferentially at a global level. We further show that spontaneous reports can be reliable and are tightly linked to objective performance at the global level.

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On the Specific Role of the Occipital Cortex in Scene Perception

Cited by 1 publication

References 111 publications

Conscious Vision Proceeds from Global to Local Content in Goal-Directed Tasks and Spontaneous Vision

Conscious Vision Proceeds from Global to Local Content in Goal-Directed Tasks and Spontaneous Vision

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