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FRONTIERS IN HUMAN NEUROSCIENCE
Volume 16, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2022.886938
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visual narrative; brain connectivity; Spectral representation; SEEG; contextual novelty
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This study investigated the regional and cross-regional cortical activities underlying the cognition of visual narrative using intracranial stereotactic electroencephalograms recordings. The results showed that the frontal and temporal lobes encode the difference between visual narrative and random image set. Additionally, the frontal lobe is more engaged when contextually novel stimuli are presented.
The regional brain networks and the underlying neurophysiological mechanisms subserving the cognition of visual narrative in humans have largely been studied with non-invasive brain recording. In this study, we specifically investigated how regional and cross-regional cortical activities support visual narrative interpretation using intracranial stereotactic electroencephalograms recordings from thirteen human subjects (6 females, and 7 males). Widely distributed recording sites across the brain were sampled while subjects were explicitly instructed to observe images from fables presented in sequential order, and a set of images drawn from multiple fables presented in scrambled order. Broadband activity mainly within the frontal and temporal lobes were found to encode if a presented image is part of a visual narrative (sequential) or random image set (scrambled). Moreover, the temporal lobe exhibits strong activation in response to visual narratives while the frontal lobe is more engaged when contextually novel stimuli are presented. We also investigated the dynamics of interregional interactions between visual narratives and contextually novel series of images. Interestingly, the interregional connectivity is also altered between sequential and scrambled sequences. Together, these results suggest that both changes in regional neuronal activity and cross-regional interactions subserve visual narrative and contextual novelty processing.
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