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  • Neuroscience
  • Cognitive Science
  • Perception

Background:

  • Attention directs cognitive resources to relevant information.
  • Attentional modulation impacts cortical activity, but its effect on high-level categorization is unclear.
  • Previous research focused on location- or object-based attention.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate how task set for high-level categorization modulates perceptual representations.
  • To determine if attentional modulation is specific to task goals (e.g., race vs. gender).

Main Methods:

  • Multivoxel pattern classification (MVPC) applied to fMRI data.
  • Observers categorized ambiguous faces by gender or race.
  • Searchlight MVPC used for whole-brain analysis.

Main Results:

  • Distinct activity patterns were found in face-selective regions (FFA, OFA) based on categorization task (race vs. gender).
  • These patterns reflect task-specific attentional modulation beyond stimulus type.
  • Dorsal fronto-parietal regions also showed distinct patterns, suggesting abstract goal representation.

Conclusions:

  • Face-selective cortical regions exhibit task-specific attentional modulation during high-level categorization.
  • Dorsal fronto-parietal networks may encode abstract task goals.
  • Brain activity patterns reflect both stimulus identity and task-relevant attention.