Authors
Annelinde RE Vandenbroucke, JJ Fahrenfort, JDI Meuwese, HS Scholte, VAF Lamme
Publication date
2016/4/1
Journal
Cerebral cortex
Volume
26
Issue
4
Pages
1401-1408
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Description
To create subjective experience, our brain must translate physical stimulus input by incorporating prior knowledge and expectations. For example, we perceive color and not wavelength information, and this in part depends on our past experience with colored objects ( ; ). Here, we investigated the influence of object knowledge on the neural substrates underlying subjective color vision. In a functional magnetic resonance imaging experiment, human subjects viewed a color that lay midway between red and green (ambiguous with respect to its distance from red and green) presented on either typical red (e.g., tomato), typical green (e.g., clover), or semantically meaningless (nonsense) objects. Using decoding techniques, we could predict whether subjects viewed the ambiguous color on typical red or typical green objects based on the neural response of veridical red and green. This shift of neural response for …
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