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Area of Science:

  • Neuroscience
  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Computational Neuroscience

Background:

  • Visual scene perception rapidly interprets environments by integrating features and context.
  • This integration is crucial for goal-directed behavior and navigating complex spaces.

Purpose of the Study:

  • Investigate temporal neural dynamics of bottom-up and top-down processing in scene perception.
  • Determine if spatial knowledge immediately modulates early neural responses for navigational affordances.

Main Methods:

  • Analyzed electroencephalographic (EEG) data from 30 participants.
  • Used convolutional neural networks (CNNs) with gradient-weighted class activation mapping (Grad-CAM).
  • Interleaved scene memory and visuospatial memory tasks with manipulated navigational affordances.

Main Results:

  • Identified an early integration window (50–250 ms) in occipitoparietal activity for visual features and spatial memory.
  • CNNs trained on affordance detection failed to generalize after spatial learning.
  • Demonstrated immediate top-down influence of spatial knowledge on early scene perception correlates.

Conclusions:

  • Scene and visuospatial memory information share an early integration window.
  • Newly acquired spatial knowledge exerts an immediate top-down influence on early neural processing of scene perception.
  • This highlights the dynamic interplay between memory and perception in guiding behavior.