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The Time Course of Segmentation and Cue-Selectivity in the Human Visual Cortex 1,2 3 3 Lawrence G. Appelbaum *, Justin M. Ales , Anthony M. Norcia 1 Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, 2 Department of Psychiatry, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, 3 Department of Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America Abstract Texture discontinuities are a fundamental cue by which the visual system segments objects from their background. The neural mechanisms supporting texture-based segmentation are therefore critical to visual perception and cognition. In the present experiment we employ an EEG source-imaging approach in order to study the time course of texture-based segmentation in the human brain. Visual Evoked Potentials were recorded to four types of stimuli in which periodic temporal modulation of a central 3u figure region could either support figure-ground segmentation, or have identical local texture modulations but not produce changes in global image segmentation. The image discontinuities were defined either by orientation or phase differences across image regions. Evoked responses to these four stimuli were analyzed both at the scalp and on the cortical surface in retinotopic and functional regions-of-interest (ROIs) defined separately using fMRI on a subject-by-subject basis. Texture segmentation (tsVEP: segmenting versus non-segmenting) and cue-specific (csVEP: orientation versus phase) responses exhibited distinctive patterns of activity. Alternations between uniform and segmented images produced highly asymmetric responses that were larger after transitions from the