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JOURNAL OF VISION
Volume 8, Issue 13, Pages -Publisher
ASSOC RESEARCH VISION OPHTHALMOLOGY INC
DOI: 10.1167/8.13.11
Keywords
natural scenes; early scene processing; object categorization; object-context interactions; congruence
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- CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)
- Fondation pour la Recherche Medicale
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Whereas most scientists agree that scene context can influence object recognition, the time course of such object/context interactions is still unknown. To determine the earliest interactions between object and context processing, we used a rapid go/no-go categorization task in which natural scenes were briefly. ashed and subjects required to respond as fast as possible to animal targets. Targets were pasted on congruent (natural) or incongruent (urban) contexts. Experiment 1 showed that pasting a target on another congruent background induced performance impairments, whereas segregation of targets on a blank background had very little effect on behavior. Experiment 2 used animals pasted on congruent or incongruent contexts. Context incongruence induced a 10% drop of correct hits and a 16-ms increase in median reaction times, affecting even the earliest behavioral responses. Experiment 3 replicated the congruency effect with other subjects and other stimuli, thus demonstrating its robustness. Object and context must be processed in parallel with continuous interactions possibly through feed-forward co-activation of populations of visual neurons selective to diagnostic features. Facilitation would be induced by the customary co-activation of congruent populations of neurons whereas interference would take place when conflictual populations of neurons fire simultaneously.
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