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Specificity of brain reactions to second-order visual stimuli

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 May 2015

VITALY V. BABENKO  and
PAVEL N. ERMAKOV
VITALY V. BABENKO*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Southern Federal University, Rostov-on-Don, Russia
PAVEL N. ERMAKOV
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Southern Federal University, Rostov-on-Don, Russia
*
*Address correspondence to: Vitaly V. Babenko, Department of Psychology, Southern Federal University, Nagibina 13, Rostov-on-Don, 344038, Russia. E-mail: babenko@sfedu.ru
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Abstract

The second-order visual mechanisms perform the operation of integrating the spatially distributed local visual information. Their organization is traditionally considered within the framework of the filter-rectify-filter model. These are the second-order filters that provide the ability to detect texture gradients. However, the question of the mechanisms' selectivity to the modulation dimension remains open. The aim of this investigation is to answer the above question by using visual evoked potentials (VEPs). Stimuli were textures consisting of staggered Gabor patches. The base texture was nonmodulated (NM). Three other textures represented the base texture which was sinusoidally modulated in different dimensions: contrast, orientation, or spatial frequency. EEG was recorded with 20 electrodes. VEPs of 500 ms duration were obtained for each of the four textures. After that, VEP to the NM texture was subtracted from VEP to each modulated texture. As a result, three different waves (d-waves) were obtained for each electrode site. Each d-wave was then averaged across all the 48 observers. The revealed d-waves have a latency of about 200 ms and, in our opinion, reflect the second-order filters reactivation through the feedback connection. The d-waves for different modulation dimensions were compared with each other in time, amplitude, topography, and localization of the sources of activity that causes the d-wave (with sLORETA). We proceeded from the assumption that the d-wave (its first component) represents functioning of the second-order visual mechanisms and activity changes at the following processing stages. It was found that the d-waves for different modulation dimensions significantly differ in all parameters. The obtained results indicate that the spatial modulations of different texture parameters caused specific changes in the brain activity, which could be evidence supporting the specificity of the second-order visual mechanisms to modulation dimension.

Keywords

VEPTextured-waveSecond-order mechanismsSpecificity
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Research Article
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Visual Neuroscience , Volume 32 , 2015 , E011
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2015 

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