期刊
JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
卷 35, 期 44, 页码 14896-14908出版社
SOC NEUROSCIENCE
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2270-15.2015
关键词
functional magnetic resonance imaging; multivoxel pattern analysis; object recognition; parahippocampal place area; retrosplenial complex; spatial memory
资金
- National Institutes of Health [R01-EY022350]
- National Science Foundation [SBE-0541957]
The use of landmarks is central to many navigational strategies. Here we use multivoxel pattern analysis of fMRI data to understand how landmarks are coded in the human brain. Subjects were scanned while viewing the interiors and exteriors of campus buildings. Despite their visual dissimilarity, interiors and exteriors corresponding to the same building elicited similar activity patterns in the parahippocampal place area (PPA), retrosplenial complex (RSC), and occipital place area (OPA), three regions known to respond strongly to scenes and buildings. Generalization across stimuli depended on knowing the correspondences among them in the PPA but not in the other two regions, suggesting that the PPA is the key region involved in learning the different perceptual instantiations of a landmark. In contrast, generalization depended on the ability to freely retrieve information from memory in RSC, and it did not depend on familiarity or cognitive task in OPA. Together, these results suggest a tripartite division of labor, where by PPA codes landmark identity, RSC retrieves spatial or conceptual information associated with landmarks, and OPA processes visual features that are important for landmark recognition.
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