Magnetoencephalographic study of the components of event-related fields in object recognition.
Neuromagnetic fields were recorded from normal participants to study neural activation while they performed a delayed matching-to-sample task of visual stimuli. Each participant was asked to compare sequentially presented three-dimensional object images under same view and different view conditions. Minimum current estimates were calculated to characterize cortical activities for the object recognition. Activation was observed in the bilateral parieto-occipital regions at approximately 180 ms. Activation within the right parieto-occipital region was significantly enhanced under the different view conditions. This result indicates that the activity at the right parieto-occipital region is related to viewpoint and may play an important role in three-dimensional object recognition.
Tanaka
Keita
K
Research Center for Advanced Technologies, Tokyo Denki University, Chiba, Japan. ktanaka@rcat.dendai.ac.jp
Kawakatsu
Masaki
M
Wang
Gang
G
D000328:Adult; D001931:Brain Mapping; D005074:Evoked Potentials, Visual / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015225:Magnetoencephalography; D008297:Male; D014793:Visual Cortex / Q000502:physiology*; D014796:Visual Perception / Q000502:physiology*