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  • Neuroscience
  • Cognitive Science
  • Visual Perception

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  • Shared perception is fundamental for human cooperation and communication.
  • Understanding invariant neural properties across individuals is key to deciphering visual perception.
  • Neural coding mechanisms underlying inter-subject commonalities remain largely unknown.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To identify the neural coding scheme most consistent across individuals' visual cortex.
  • To investigate the neural basis of shared visual perception.
  • To determine if relational coding underlies commonalities in visual processing.

Main Methods:

  • Intracranial recordings were obtained from 19 patients during a visual recognition task.
  • Analyzed 244 high-order visual contacts across three patient groups.
  • Compared the inter-subject consistency of relational coding, activation pattern coding, and linear coding.

Main Results:

  • Relational coding, defined by similarity distances between activation patterns, showed the highest consistency across individuals.
  • Activation pattern coding and linear coding demonstrated lower inter-subject consistency.
  • These findings indicate that relational coding is a prevalent neural representation.

Conclusions:

  • Relational coding is supported as the primary neural code for shared perceptual content in the human brain.
  • This coding scheme explains the commonalities observed in visual perception across individuals.
  • The study provides insights into the neural basis of human cooperation and communication through shared visual experience.