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Stimulus-specific Cortical Visual Evoked Potential Morphological Patterns
Published on: May 12, 2019
Broadly tuned, view-specific coding of face shape: opposing figural aftereffects can be induced in different views
Linda Jeffery1, Gillian Rhodes, Tom Busey
1The University of Western Australia, School of Psychology, 35 Stirling Highway, M304, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia. linda@psy.uwa.edu.au
Abstract:
Face aftereffects are sensitive to changes in viewpoint, suggesting view-specific face coding, yet are not entirely eliminated by changes in viewpoint, suggesting view-invariance. To determine whether broad view-tuning can account for these findings we measured the reduction of a figural face aftereffect induced in one view by concurrent adaptation to an opposite distortion in a second viewpoint, varying the angle between these views. To the degree that the same neural population codes both viewpoints, the opposing aftereffects should cancel. Cancellation increased monotonically as the angle between two adapting views decreased, consistent with broadly tuned, view-specific coding of face shape.
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