Dynamics of Trimming the Content of Face Representations for Categorization in the Brain 英文参考文献.docVIP

DynamicsofTrimmingtheContentofFace RepresentationsforCategorizationintheBrain NicolaJ.vanRijsbergen1,2*,PhilippeG.Schyns1,2 1DepartmentofPsychology,UniversityofGlasgow,Glasgow,UnitedKingdom,2CentreforCognitiveNeuroimaging,UniversityofGlasgow,Glasgow,UnitedKingdom Abstract To understand visual cognition, it is imperative to determine when, how and with what information the human brain categorizes the visual input. Visual categorization consistently involves at least an early and a late stage: the occipito- temporalN170eventrelatedpotentialrelatedtostimulusencodingandtheparietalP300involvedinperceptualdecisions. Here we sought to understand how the brain globally transforms its representations of face categories from their early encoding to the later decision stage over the 400ms time window encompassing the N170 and P300 brain events. We applied classification image techniques to the behavioral and electroencephalographic data of three observers who categorizedsevenfacialexpressionsofemotionandreporttwomainfindings:(1)overthe400mstimecourse,processing offacialfeaturesinitiallyspreadsbilaterallyacrosstheleftandrightoccipito-temporalregionstodynamicallyconvergeonto thecentro-parietalregion;(2)concurrently,informationprocessinggraduallyshiftsfromencodingcommonfacefeatures acrossallspatialscales(e.g.,theeyes)torepresentingonlythefinerscalesofthediagnosticfeaturesthatarericherinuseful informationforbehavior(e.g.,thewideopenedeyesin‘fear’;thedetailedmouthin‘happy’).Ourfindingssuggestthatthe brainrefinesitsdiagnosticrepresentationsofvisualcategoriesoverthefirst400msofprocessingbytrimmingathorough encoding of features over the N170, to leave only the detailed information important for perceptual decisions over the P300. Citation:vanRijsbergenNJ,SchynsPG(2009)DynamicsofTrimmingtheContentofFaceRepresentationsforCategorizationintheBrain.PLoSComputBiol5(11): e1000561.doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000561 Editor:KarlJ.Friston,UniversityCollegeLondon,UnitedKingdom ReceivedJuly17,2009