Journal
NEUROREPORT
Volume 19, Issue 17, Pages 1727-1731Publisher
LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
DOI: 10.1097/WNR.0b013e328317f3e2
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individual differences; neural efficiency; object-processing ability; spatial-processing ability
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- Rutgers University (Newark)
- University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey
- Office of Naval Research [ONR_N00012040515, ONR_N000140611072]
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The visual system processes object properties and spatial properties in distinct subsystems, and we hypothesized that this distinction might extend to individual differences in visual processing. We conducted a functional MRI study investigating the neural underpinnings of individual differences in object versus spatial visual processing. Nine participants of high object-processing ability ('object' visualizers) and eight participants of high spatial-processing ability ('spatial' visualizers) were scanned, while they performed an object-processing task. Object visualizers showed lower bilateral neural activity in lateral occipital complex and lower right-lateralized neural activity in dorsolateral prefrontal cortex. The data indicate that high object-processing ability is associated with more efficient use of visual-object resources, resulting in less neural activity in the object-processing pathway. NeuroReport 19:1727-1731 (C) 2008 Wolters Kluwer Health | Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
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