retinotopic mapping of categorical and coordinate spatial relation processing in early visual cortex网膜代表直言和协调空间的映射关系处理早期视觉皮层.pdfVIP

Retinotopic Mapping of Categorical and Coordinate Spatial Relation Processing in Early Visual Cortex 1 1 2 3,4,5 Ineke J. M. van der Ham *, Maarten J. A. Duijndam , Mathijs Raemaekers , Richard J. A. van Wezel , Anna Oleksiak3, Albert Postma1,6 1 Helmholtz Institute, Experimental Psychology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 2 Department of Neurosurgery, University Medical Centre Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 3 Helmholtz Institute and Utrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 4 Institute for biomedical technology and technical medicine, Biomedical Signals and Systems, University of Twente, Enschede, the Netherlands, 5 Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Biophysics, Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands, 6 Department of Neurology, University Medical Centre Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands Abstract Spatial relations are commonly divided in two global classes. Categorical relations concern abstract relations which define areas of spatial equivalence, whereas coordinate relations are metric and concern exact distances. Categorical and coordinate relation processing are thought to rely on at least partially separate neurocognitive mechanisms, as reflected by differential lateralization patterns, in particular in the parietal cortex. In this study we address this textbook principle from a new angle. We studied retinotopic activation in early visual cortex, as a reflection of attentional distribution, in a spatial working memory task with either a categorical or a coordinate instruction. Participants were asked to memorize a