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  • 1Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. haushofer@post.harvard.edu

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The posterior lateral occipital complex (LO) represents object shapes based on physical features, while the anterior LOC (pFs) encodes subjective, observer-specific shape perceptions, revealing a hierarchical organization in object recognition.

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Area of Science:

  • Neuroscience
  • Cognitive Science
  • Visual Perception

Background:

  • The lateral occipital complex (LOC) is crucial for representing object shape in the human brain.
  • The precise nature of shape representations within the LOC and their link to perception remain unclear.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate whether subregions of the LOC represent novel shapes based on physical stimulus properties or subjective perceptual experience.
  • To explore the hierarchical organization of object shape representations within the LOC.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized human functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to analyze multivoxel patterns.
  • Measured physical, behavioral (perceptual similarity via same-different task), and neural similarities between novel shape pairs.
  • Applied analyses to anterior LOC (pFs) and posterior LOC (LO) regions.

Main Results:

  • Posterior LOC (LO) shape similarities correlated strongly with physical shape similarities.
  • Anterior LOC (pFs) shape similarities closely matched perceptual shape similarities.
  • Shape representations were consistent across participants in LO but highly variable in pFs.

Conclusions:

  • The LOC exhibits a hierarchical organization for object shape representation.
  • Posterior regions (LO) encode stimulus-based shape information.
  • Anterior regions (pFs) encode subjective, observer-specific shape perceptions.