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Brain responses to visual stimuli change over months, but object recognition remains stable. This stability in neural representations suggests the brain maintains core object recognition abilities despite temporal fluctuations in sensory processing.

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Area of Science:

  • Neuroscience
  • Cognitive Science
  • Psychology

Background:

  • The brain exhibits neural plasticity, constantly changing.
  • Despite this, our perception of the world remains stable.
  • Longitudinal changes in neural responses and their impact on stable perception are not well understood.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate if brain responses to visual stimuli change over long periods (months).
  • To determine if these changes affect higher-level object category representations.
  • To test if neural representations for object recognition remain stable over time.

Main Methods:

  • Acquired and analyzed magnetoencephalography (MEG) data from one participant over six months.
  • Used passive visual stimulus presentation.
  • Validated findings with the open-access THINGS-MEG dataset and four additional participants.

Main Results:

  • Scanning day was predictable from brain responses, indicating temporal changes in neural activity.
  • Object animacy was decodable across different scanning days, even with long time intervals.
  • Cross-decoding accuracy remained stable over months, despite between-scanning-day variability.

Conclusions:

  • Visual stimulus processing shows variability over long timescales.
  • The core neural structure for object recognition is stable and not stimulus-specific.
  • The brain maintains stable perceptual representations despite gradual changes in sensory responses.