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Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Visual Perception
  • Psychology

Background:

  • Visual encoding progresses from low- to high-level features.
  • Perceptual decoding hierarchy and working memory's role remain unclear.
  • Existing models lack quantitative comparison with human perception.

Purpose of the Study:

  • Investigate the decoding hierarchy in visual perception.
  • Quantitatively compare decoding models with human perception.
  • Examine the influence of working memory on decoding hierarchy.

Main Methods:

  • Compared absolute judgments of single orientations with relative/ordinal judgments of sequential orientations.
  • Probed decoding hierarchy using psychophysical tasks.
  • Analyzed correlations and aftereffects in orientation judgments.

Main Results:

  • Lower-level, absolute judgments did not fully explain higher-level, relative/ordinal judgments.
  • Ordinal judgments retrospectively decoded absolute orientation memory representations.
  • This retrospective decoding explained key aspects of absolute judgments, including aftereffects.

Conclusions:

  • The brain prioritizes decoding higher-level features due to behavioral relevance and working memory efficiency.
  • Higher-level decoding is more invariant, categorical, and easier to maintain in working memory.
  • Reliable higher-level decoding constrains less reliable lower-level decoding, shaping perception.